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. 237H [Browse]

Rare books genre

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

Getty AAT genre

• holographs (autographs) [Browse]

Summary note

Autograph copy of a short biography of the Prophet commemorating his birth.

Notes

• Collation: Paper ; fol. 21 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Description: Vowel signs ; watermarks (three crescents) ; MS in good condition.
• Layout: 21 lines per page.
• Marginal notes and glosses. On the title page occur a statement of the price of the MS and a tradition about the Prophet.
• Ms. codex.
• Origin: According to colophon copied Friday 12 Rabīʻ I 1149 by the author (fol. 21a).
• Title from title page (fol. 1a).
• Colophon: وقد وافق الفراغ منه يوم الجمعة ثاني عشر ربيع الاول سنة تسع واربعين وماة [مائة] والف من الهجرة النبوية على صاحبها افضل الصلاة واتم التسليم تم
• Incipit: بسم الله ... الحمد لله الذي من علينا بايجاد المصطفى

Binding note

Unbound.

Provenance

• Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
• Fol. 1a has the signature of Muḥammad al-Basūmī al-Ḥanafī.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 660.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

1294311447

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