Details

Subject(s)

• Muḥammad Prophet -632—Isrāʼ and Miʻrāj—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. 240H [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Autographs [Browse]
• Watermarks (Paper) [Browse]

Summary note

A commentary expounding the story of the Prophet's Night Journey [Sūrah 17:1].

Notes

• Collation: Paper ; fol. 20 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Description: Rubricated ; watermarks (star with crescent on top) ; MS in fair condition, the last two folios are defective.
• Layout: 25 lines per page.
• Ms. codex.
• Title from title page (fol. 1a).
• Title page has a statement about the quires and an account of a man requesting a divorce.
• Colophon: تم الکلام على الاية الکبرى في شرح قصة الاسراء للشيخ جلال الدين السيوطي رحمه الله تعالى ونفعنا به والمسلمين امين. تم
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم ... الحمد لله الذي نعمه لا تحصى

Binding note

Unbound.

Provenance

• Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
• Fol. 1a has the ownership signature of ʻAlī ibn al-Sayyid Aḥmad al-Sharīf al-Ḥasanī al-Samhūdī.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), I, p. 499.
• Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 647.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

1294313020

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