Details

Subject(s)

• Muḥammad Prophet -632—Friends and associates—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. 195H [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Blind tooled bindings [Browse]
• Headbands [Browse]
• Stamps [Browse]
• Embossed papers (Paper) [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• headpieces (layout features) [Browse]
• illuminated manuscripts [Browse]

Summary note

A "Whoʼs Who" of the Companions of the Prophet, giving their names, genealogies and outstanding events in their lives. It is arranged alphabetically, and the last part is devoted to women Companions.

Notes

• Collation: Paper ; fol. 318 + i ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Decoration: Illuminated headpiece in gold, blue and red (fol. 3b). Text area on fol. 3b colored light brown. Fol. 3b and 4a frame-ruled in gold and red. Gilt floral decoration on edges of text block.
• Description: Rubricated ; MS in fair condition with considerable staining.
• Layout: 29 lines per page.
• Marginal notes by later hands. Folio before title page records the death of the owner's father in 1221.
• Ms. codex.
• Title from title page (fol. 3a).
• Colophon: قد وقع الفراغ. اقل عباد الله [الفقير] الى رحمة الله الملك المنان الشيخ جمال الدين حافظ بن [الـ]شيخ عبد الملك الهندي الحنفي مذهبا السني عقيدة
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم قال الفقيه ابو عمر يوسف بن عبد الله ... اما بعد فان اولي ما نظر فيه الطالب وعنى به الراغب بعد كتاب الله عز وجل ...

Binding note

Type II (with flap) binding in brown leather and green embossed paper. Blind-stamped mandorla with pendants on covers. Multi-colored endbands. Violet paper pastedowns and flyleaves.

Provenance

Title page has a seal impression and ownership signatures: Muḥammad ibn al-Shaykh Muḥammad al-ʻAyyān al-Kaḥḥāl dated 1231, the obscured signature of Muḥammad Bāqir, Muḥammad ʻAlī ibn [Yaḥyá?] Mīrzā [?] with his seal impression, and another seal impression. The folio following the colophon (fol. 318b) has two seal impressions. Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Catálogo de los manuscritos árabes existentes en la Biblioteca Nacional de Madrid, 511, 527.
• Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum orientalium (1846), 1625/4.
• Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, I, p. 225.
• Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), I, p. 276/7.
• Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 673.
• Rieu, Supplement of the catalogue of the Arabic Mss, 623.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

Other title(s)

• Kitāb al-Istīʻāb fī maʻrifat al-aṣḥāb
• کتاب الاستيعاب في معرفة الاصحاب

OCLC

1292577198

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