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. 230H [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• holographs (autographs) [Browse]

Summary note

Autography copy of a biography of the Prophet embracing: (1) his personal appearance, character, virtues and miracles, (2) his conquests, (3) his expeditions, (4) his delegates and emissaries, (5) his letters to the kings, (6) the writers of revelation, and a conclusion on his name and genealogy.

Notes

• Collation: Paper ; fol. 72 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Description: Rubricated ; vowel signs ; MS in fair condition.
• Layout: 19-20 lines per page.
• Marginal notes.
• Ms. codex.
• Origin: According to colophon copied Friday 4 Rabīʻ I 1117 by the author at Jāmiʻ al-Azʹhar (fol. 72a).
• Title from title page (fol. 1a).
• Colophon: ووافق الفراغ [منه] على يد کاتبه ومولفه الفقير عبد المعطي ابن سالم بن عمر الشبلي السملاوي بالجامع الازهر يوم الجمعة رابع ربيع اول سنة سبعة عشر وماية والف
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم. الحمد لله الذي شرف سيدنا محمد

Binding note

Contemporaneous? type II (with flap) binding in brown leather and marbled paper. Quires not currently sewn.

Provenance

Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 657.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

Other title(s)

رياضات الزاهرات

Title from top edge

• Riyāḍāt al-zāhirāt

OCLC

1293236394

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