Details

Subject(s)

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

• Gold tooled bindings [Browse]

Summary note

A well known biography of the Prophet based on tradition and a study of the earlier biographies. Incomplete at the beginning and end.

Notes

• Collation: Paper ; fol. (1) + 194 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Description: Rubricated ; vowel signs ; MS in fair condition but several folios are worm-eaten and mended and folios are worm along the edges. MS evidently very old.
• Layout: 25 lines per page.
• Marginal notes and glosses.
• Ms. codex.
• Title from Hitti catalogue.
• Ending: ... عن الاستاذ ابي القسم السهيلي ... عن والدي رحمه الله قال انا الشيخ الراوية ... قد سمع عليه الکثير
• Incipit: له الى من نفيل حدثنا عبد الله

Binding note

Later type III (without flap) binding in red leather. Gold-stamped central motif and decorative edging. Gold-tooled lines across the spine.

Provenance

Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 9577/8.
• Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum orientalium (1846), 355.
• Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, V, p. 91/2.
• Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), IV, p. 285.
• Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 640.
• Rieu, Supplement of the catalogue of the Arabic Mss, 512.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

1292944329

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