Details

Subject(s)

• Hadith—Texts—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Prayer—Islam—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Scribe

• Anṣārī, Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān, active 12th century [Browse]

Related name

• انصاري، محمد بن عبد الرحمن، active 12th century [Browse]
• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 1344Y [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Certificates [Browse]
• Blind tooled bindings [Browse]
• Donors' bookplates [Browse]

Summary note

Parts 2-5 (chapters 6-40) of a collection of hadith.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from title page (fol. 1a).
• Several samāʻ notes (some read before the author) with dates 611 H., 677 H., etc. (fol. 29a-b, 55a-b, 89b-91a, 120b).
• Collation: Paper ; fol. i (later paper) + 121 (final folio is later paper) ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 13 lines per page.
• Description: Rubricated ; MS in poor condition; worm-eaten and damaged with some loss of text.
• Decoration: Round line drawings in black ink (fol. 1a, fol. 29b-30a)
• Origin: According to colophon copy completed 1 Rabīʻ al-Ākhir 594 (fol. 120a). Copied by Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān al-Anṣārī al-Saʻrī[?] (fol. 55a).
• Incipit: ... الباب السادس فيما روى عن النبى صلى الله عليه وسلم في اسم الله الاعظم اخبرنا ابو الحسين عبد ...
• Colophon: وكان الفراغ من نسخه مقابلته في غره شهر ربيع الاخر من سنه اربع وتسعين وخمس ما[ئة]

Binding note

Later type II (with flap) binding in dark red leather. Blind-stamped mandorla with pendants and blind-tooled edging on covers. Blind-stamped design on flap. Spine repaired with red leather. Flap possibly a replacement. Binding in poor condition.

Provenance

Garrett's bookplate; label: "ELS No 1344" (upper pastedown). Insert from bookseller describing the manuscript.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

Brockelmann, GAL, S I, 627 (3)

OCLC

1340461465

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