Details

Subject(s)

• Muḥammad Prophet -632—Biography—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. 220H [Browse]

Contains

• Ibn Sayyid al-Nās, Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, 1273?-1334. ʻUyūn al-athar fī funūn al-maghāzī wa-al-shamāyil wa-al-siyar. Selections. [Browse]
• ابن سيد الناس، محمد بن محمد، 1273?-1334 عيون الاثر في فنون المغازي والشمايل والسير. مختارات. [Browse]

Summary note

An abridgment of the author's larger work ʻUyūn al-athar fī funūn al-maghāzī wa-al-shamāyil wa-al-siyar, the well-known biography of the Prophet.

Notes

• A few marginal notes. After the colophon occur two contemporaneous fāʼidahs, one about the generations that passed from Adam to Muḥammad and the other about the occasions of the descent of revelation to the Apostles of God.
• Collation: Paper ; fol. 21 + (2) ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Description: Rubricated ; vowel signs ; MS in good condition.
• Layout: 15 lines per page.
• Ms. codex.
• Title from title page (fol. 1a).
• Colophon: والحمد لله رب العالمين
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن ... قال الشيخ الامام الحافظ الحجة

Binding note

Unbound.

Provenance

Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 9580/81'.
• Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, V, p. 172, VII, p. 666.
• Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), IV, p. 285, VI, p. 393.
• Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 641.
• Rieu, Supplement of the catalogue of the Arabic Mss, 1217x.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

1292944382

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