Details

Subject(s)

• Muḥammad Prophet -632—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Religious life—Islam—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. 738H [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Watermarks (Paper) [Browse]

Summary note

A compendium of the personal characteristics, habits and the way of life of the Prophet based on the ḥadīth.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from caption (fol. 1b).
• On the first two folios and on a part of the third is a list of contents.
• Collation: Paper ; fol. 61 + (1) ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 17 lines per page.
• Description: Rubricated ; watermarks (crown?, grapes, heart, western lettering) ; MS in good condition.
• Origin: Probably from the XVIIIth century.
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم. الحمد لله حق حمده والصلاة على نبيه وخيرته من خلقه محمد واله وصحبه اجمعين اما بعد فهذا فهرست ابواب کتاب الشمائل كل باب في موضعه مرتبا ومرتلا من اوله الى اخره ليسهل على الطلاب ...
• Colophon: اخر کتاب الشمائل للترمذي رحمه الله. من علقه من اصل شيخنا الامام الحافظ العلامة جمال الدين ابي الحجاج ابن يوسف بن الزکي عبد الرحمن المزي فتح الله في مدته بعد ما قرأته عليه في خمسة مجالس بد[ا]ر الحديث الاشرفية وسمعه فتاي طيد من بن عبد الله الرومي ولبث خليل بن اينك بن عبد الله الشافعي الصدي غفرالله له ولوالديه ولجميع المؤمنين والمؤمنات والمسلمين والمسلمات وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد واله الطيبين الطاهرين والحمد لله رب العالمين

Binding note

Contemporaneous type II (with flap) binding in red leather and yellow paper. Marbled paper pastedowns.

Provenance

Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 628.
• Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), IV, p. 70.
• Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, I, pp. 366/7.
• Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 9634/5.
• Catalogue des manuscrits arabes de la Bibliothèque Nationale, 712/3.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

1340422803

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