Details

Subject(s)

• Muḥammad Prophet -632—Friends and associates—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]
• Muslims—Biography—Early works to 1800 [Browse]

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Related name

• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 191H [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Headbands [Browse]
• Embossed papers (Paper) [Browse]

Summary note

A book of short biographies containing the lives of ten of the Companions of the Prophet, some of their descendants, those noted for their asceticism, and those who were outstanding during the pre-Islamic period.

Notes

• Collation: Paper ; fol. 78 + i ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Description: Vowel signs ; headings in bold hand ; MS in good condition. Probably from the XIVth century.
• Layout: 17 lines per page ; ruled.
• Ms. codex.
• The first six folios are by a later hand. Title page is completely covered with writing, including a repetition of the title, the number of pages (77) and a number of obscured ownership signatures.
• Title from title page (fol. 2a).
• Colophon: انقضت النکت الکرايم
• Incipit: بسم الله ... قال الشيخ الامام العالم الحافظ حجة الدين

Binding note

Later? type II (with flap) binding in brown leather and embossed red paper. Multi-colored endbands.

Provenance

Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 9506/7.
• Catalogue des manuscrits arabes de la Bibliothèque Nationale, 2121/2.
• Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), I, p. 443.
• Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 675.
• Pertsch, Die orientalischen handschriften der Herzoglichen bibliothek zu Gotha, 1780.
• Rieu, Supplement of the catalogue of the Arabic Mss, 1139.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

1292559687

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