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. 238H [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Watermarks (Paper) [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• holographs (autographs) [Browse]

Summary note

Autograph copy of a life of the Prophet drawn chiefly from Insān al-ʻuyūn fī sīrat al-amīn al-maʼmūn. It is in four parts and a conclusion: (1) the time of the Prophetʼs birth; (2) his name; (3) his genealogy; (4) the merit of praying for him; and the conclusion, on standing up when the mawlid is read.

Notes

• A few marginal notes. Folio 30 is of larger size and folded over. Waqf statement on title page partially obscured.
• Collation: Paper ; fol. i + 39 + ii ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Description: Overlining and verse separators in red ; watermarks (crown with oval beneath with roman-alphabet letters "AV..." and grapes, three crescents) ; MS in good condition.
• Layout: 15-21 lines per page ; ruled.
• Ms. codex.
• Origin: According to colophon copied Thursday 11 Ṣafar 1138 by the author, Ibrāhīm ibn Murād ibn Ibrāhīm al-Rāʻī (fol. 38a).
• Title from title page (fol. 1a).
• Colophon: وقد وقع الفراغ من تأليفه وتحريره على يد الفقير الحقير المعترف بالعجز والتقصير ابراهيم بن مراد بن ابراهيم الراعي يوم الخميس الحادي عشر شهر صفر الخير سنة ثمانية وثلاثين وماية والف من هجرة من له العز والشرف سيدنا وسندنا وقدوتنا الى الله سبحانه وتعالى محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم في کل وقت وحين وعلى آله واصحابه نجوم الدين وعلى التابعين لهم باحسان الى يوم الدين امين
• Incipit: بسم الله ... الحمد لله الذي انعم على العالمين بميلاد نبيه

Binding note

Later type III (without flap) binding in brown leather and cream paper.

Provenance

Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 658.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

Other title(s)

ضياء الابصار في شرح مولد السيد المختار

Title on flyleaf

• Ḍiyāʼ al-abṣār fī sharḥ mawlid al-Sayyid al-mukhtār

OCLC

1294313007

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