Details

Subject(s)

• Muḥammad Prophet -632—Military leadership—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Caliphs—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]
• Islamic Empire—History—Early works to 1800 [Browse]

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Related name

• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 218H [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Blind tooled bindings [Browse]
• Gold tooled bindings [Browse]
• Headbands [Browse]
• Watermarks (Paper) [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

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

Summary note

Vols. I and II of al-Iktifāʼ fī Maghāzī Rasūl Allāh, being a history of the conquests of the Prophet and the first three caliphs, beginning with the genealogy of the Prophet and closing with the departure of ʻAbd Allāh ibn Ḥudhāfah with a letter from the Prophet to Kisrá [Khusraw Parwīz] [590-628].

Notes

• Collation: Paper ; fol. 213 + (1), 216 + (1) ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Decoration: Elaborate illuminated headpiece with vignette in red, gold and blue in both volumes. Headpiece in volume 1 carries the author's name, in vol. 2 "ghazwat Badr al-kubrá". Illuminated colophons in both volumes with vignettes in red, gold and blue. In both volumes, opening folios and colophons frame-ruled in gold and blue.
• Description: Rubricated ; watermarks ; MS in good condition but some folios are worm-eaten and there is some staining. MS is rare.
• Layout: 20 lines per page ; frame-ruled in red and blue.
• Marginal notes and glosses.
• Ms. codex.
• Title from colophon (vol. 1, fol. 213a).
• Colophon: انتهى الجزء الثاني من کتاب الاکتفاء بحمد الله تعالى وحسن عونه ىتلوه ان شاء الله في الجزء الثالث اسلام النجاشي
• Incipit: بسم الله ... قال الشىخ الامام العالم الهمام ابو الربىع

Binding note

Type III (without flap) binding in red leather. Blind-stamped mandorla and gold-tooled edging. Multi-colored endbands.

Language note

Arabic;

Script

Maghribī.

Provenance

Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 9575.
• Catalogue des manuscrits arabes de la Bibliothèque Nationale, 1568/9.
• Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), I, pp. 387/8.
• Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 639.
• Pertsch, Die orientalischen handschriften der Herzoglichen bibliothek zu Gotha, 2¹.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

1292944299

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