Details

Subject(s)

• Tirmidhī, Muḥammad ibn ʻĪsá -892—Shamāʼil [Browse]
• Muḥammad Prophet -632 [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. 742H [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Blind tooled bindings (Binding) [Browse]
• Headbands (Binding) [Browse]
• Autographs (Provenance) [Browse]
• Stamps (Provenance) [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• headpieces (layout features) [Browse]
• illuminated manuscripts [Browse]

Summary note

A commentary on Shamāʼil al-Nabī.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from text (fol. 4a).
• Marginal notes and summaries. Table of contents on folios 1b-2b. In the original colophon is a statement to the effect that the author completed the work in Makkah, 1008 [1600].
• Collation: Paper ; fol. ii + 344 + i ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 27 lines per page ; frame-ruled in red.
• Description: Rubricated ; overlining in red ; MS in good condition.
• Decoration: Illuminated headpiece in gold and blue on fol. 3b. Opening pages frame-ruled in gold (fol. 3b-4a).
• Origin: According to colophon copied Rabīʻ al-Ūlá 1138 by ʻAbd al-Karīm ibn Muḥammad (fol. 343a).
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم. الحمد لله الذي خلق الخلق والاخلاق والارزاق والافعال ... اما بعد فيقول افقر عباد الله الغنى البارى على بن سلطان محمد القارى لما كان موضوع علم الحديث ذات النبى ...
• Colophon: وقع الفراغ عن تسويد هذه النسخة المبارکة عن يد عبد الکريم بن محمد غفرالله ذنوبهما وستر عيوبهما آمين. سنة ثمان وثلاثون ومائة بعد الالف في شهر ربيع الاولى

Binding note

Contemporaneous? type II (with flap) binding in dark brown leather. Blind-stamped mandorla on covers. Blind-tooled edging on covers and flap. Endband. Flap attached with striped fabric. Blue-green paper pastedowns and flyleaves.

Provenance

Ownership signatures: al-Sayyid ʻAlī, al-Sayyid Muḥammad Muḥyī? al-Dīn with seal impression, and ʻUthmān ibn Muṣṭafá dated 1232 (fol. 3a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 632
• Khulāṣat al-Athar III, p. 185.
• Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), IV, p. 70.
• Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 9637/8.
• Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, I, p. 327.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

1340423243

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