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Subject(s)

• Ghayṭī, Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad 1504 or 1505-1573 or 1574—Bahjat al-sāmiʻīn wa-al-nāẓirīn bi-mawlid Sayyid al-awwalīn wa-al-ākhirīn [Browse]
• Muḥammad Prophet -632—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. 236H [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Blind tooled bindings [Browse]
• Headbands [Browse]
• Autographs [Browse]
• Watermarks [Browse]

Summary note

A commentary on the work of Shams al-Dīn ibn Aḥmad al-Ghayṭī, 981 [1573] on the importance and significance of the birth of the Prophet.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from title page (fol. 1a).
• A few marginal notes.
• Collation: Paper ; fol. 124 ; catchwords ; quires signed: 1-13 ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 25 lines per page.
• Description: Text in red and commentary in black ; watermarks (crown, star with a crescent on top) ; MS in good condition.
• Origin: According to colophon copied Saturday 15 Jumādá I 1106 (fol. 124a).
• Incipit: بسم الله ... الحمد الله الذي صور خلق الانسان
• Colophon: وقد تم نسخها بحمد الله وعونه يوم السبت المبارك خامس عشر شهر جمادى الاولى ست شهور سنة ستة وماية والف الهلالية من الهجرة النبوية على صاحبها افضل الصلاة والسلام

Binding note

Type II (with flap) binding in brown leather. Blind-stamped mandorla on covers. Stamped florets and blind-tooled edging on covers and flap. Red marbled pastedowns. Multi-colored endbands.

Provenance

Title page carries several ownership signatures, some obliterated, including: Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Saqqāf, and Aḥmad al-Arwādī. Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 654.
• Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, I, pp. 264/5.
• Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, I, pp. 264/5.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

1294312925

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