Details

Subject(s)

• Muḥammad Prophet -632—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Muḥammad Prophet -632—Family—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Muḥammad Prophet -632—Friends and associates—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Caliphs—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. 232H [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Watermarks (Paper) [Browse]

Summary note

A short description of the Prophet; the names of his wives and children; a description of the first four caliphs, six of the close companions, and of al-Ḥasan and al-Ḥusayn.

Notes

• Collation: Paper ; fol. (1) + 6 + (3) ; catchwords ; foliated in ink using Hindu-Arabic numerals in upper-right hand corner as 264-269 ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Description: Rubricated ; watermarks (crown) ; MS in good condition.
• Layout: 16 lines per page ; ruled.
• Marginal notes. Evidently the size of the folios was larger. A later hand has cut the size down and in order to save the marginal notes folded the projecting parts over. Title page bears a note with the date of the authorʼs death.
• Ms. codex.
• Title from title page (fol. 1a).
• Colophon: والحمد لله رب العالمين
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه ثقتي. الحمد لله رب العالمين

Binding note

Later type III (without flap) binding in blue and red marbled paper.

Provenance

Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 659.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

Other title(s)

حلية النبي وغيره

Title on label on cover

• Ḥilyat al-Nabī wa-ghayruh

OCLC

1293238087

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