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. 739H [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Gold tooled bindings (Binding) [Browse]
• Watermarks (Paper) [Browse]
• Headbands (Binding) [Browse]
• Stamps (Provenance) [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 preliminary folio in later hand (fol. [i]a).
• Marginal and interlinear notes and glosses. Later inscription captioned "Min kalām Shaykhinā al-Sayyid Muṣṭafá al-Bakrī al-Ḥusaynī" on fol. 1a. Immediately after the colophon and on the following page and folio is a short treatise on the good qualities of the Prophet by Muṣṭafá Afandī dated Jumādá al-Ūlá 1181 [1767].
• Collation: Paper ; fol. ii + 79 + i ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 13 lines per page ; frame-ruled in red.
• Description: Rubricated ; some vowel signs ; watermarks (roman-alphabet lettering) ; MS in good condition.
• Origin: According to colophon copied 1180 (fol. 77a).
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله وسلام على عباده الذين اصطفى قال الشيخ الحافظ ابو عيسى محمد بن عيسى بن سودة الترمذى
• Colophon: اخرو في سنة 1180

Binding note

Contemporaneous type II (with flap) binding in brown leather. Gold-stamped mandorla and blind-tooled edging on covers. Similar decoration on flap. Green paper pastedowns. Endbands.

Language note

Arabic;

Script

Fārisī.

Provenance

Stamp impression on fol. 78a. Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 629.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

1340424899

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