Details

Subject(s)

• Islam—History—Handbooks, manuals, etc—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Related name

• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 189H [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Autographs [Browse]
• Watermarks (Paper) [Browse]

Contains

• ʻAskarī, al-Ḥasan ibn ʻAbd Allāh, 906-993. Awāʼil. [Browse]
• عسكري، الحسن بن عبد الله، 906-993. اوائل. [Browse]

Summary note

A redaction of the work al-Awāʼil by Abū Hilāl Ḥasan ibn ʻAbd Allāh al-ʻAskarī, 382 [992/3], which is a book about origins and beginnings of, and pioneers in, every phase of life, whether physical, religious, moral or social.

Notes

• Collation: Paper : fol. 58 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Description: Rubricated ; watermarks (crown) ; MS in fair condition but worm-eaten.
• Layout: 19 lines per page.
• Marginal notes. Title page has a religious exhortation.
• Ms. codex.
• Origin: According to colophon copied Monday 13 Rabīʻ I 1083 (fol. 58b).
• Title from title page (fol. 1a).
• Colophon: ووافق الفراغ من کتابته يوم الاثنين المبارك ثالث عشرين ربيع الاول الذي هو من شهور سنة ثلاثة وثمانين والف من الهجرة النبوية على صاحبها افضل الصلاة والسلام والتحية وحسبنا الله ونعم الوکيل
• Incipit: بسم الله ... وبه الاعانة الحمد لله الاول فليس له اخر

Binding note

Unbound.

Provenance

Obscured ownership signature for Abū al-Ṭayyib [?] on title page. Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 9369/70.
• Catalogue des manuscrits arabes de la Bibliothèque Nationale, 659⁶.
• Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), I, p. 490.
• Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 599.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

Other title(s)

• Wasāyil ilá maʻrifat al-Awāyil.
• وسايل الى معرفة الاوايل.

OCLC

1292559114

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