Details

Subject(s)

• Muḥammad Prophet -632—Isrāʼ and Miʻrāj—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Scribe

• Turūḥī, ʻĀmir ibn ʻĀmir [Browse]

Related name

• تروحي، عامر بن عامر [Browse]
• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 243H [Browse]

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Rare books genre

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

Summary note

An elaborate discussion of the Night Journey and the Ascension of the Prophet.

Notes

• Collation: Paper ; fol. 106 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Description: Rubricated ; vowel signs ; watermarks (star with a crescent on top, roman-alphabet letters "RD") ; MS in good condition but loose.
• Layout: 23 lines per page.
• Marginal notes and glosses.
• Ms. codex.
• Origin: According to colophon copied Saturday 10 Rabīʻ II 1080 by ʻĀmir ibn ʻĀmir al-Turūḥī (fol. 106a).
• Title from title page (fol. 1a).
• Colophon: تم المعراج بحمد الله وعونه يوم السبت المبارك عاشر شهر ربيعي [ربيع] الاخر من شهورسنة ثمانين والف على يد العبد الفقير عامر بن عامر التروحي غفر الله له ولوالديه امين. م
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه نستعين. قال الشيخ الامام

Binding note

Unbound.

Provenance

• Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
• Fol. 1a has the signature of Ibrāhīm al-Mūsá.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 2610.
• Brockelmann, GAL, II, p. 317.
• Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, I, p. 447.
• Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 665.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

1294313950

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