Details

Subject(s)

• Hanafites—Biography—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Scribe

• Jazāyirī, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad, active 19th century [Browse]

Related name

• جزايري، احمد بن محمد، active 19th century [Browse]
• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 201Hq [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Blind tooled bindings [Browse]
• Headbands [Browse]
• Watermarks (Paper) [Browse]

Summary note

A ʻʻWhoʼs Whoʼʼ of the Ḥanafite shaykhs, arranged alphabetically, and giving their names, genealogies and titles together with the 99 names of God, the genealogy of the Prophet and the virtues of Abū Ḥanīfah.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from preface (fol. 3a).
• Index of all the names mentioned in the text (fol. i b-xviii b). After the colophon is what is evidently the colophon of the copy from which MS was made. It is dated 871 [1466] and was transcribed by Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad Sibṭ al-Nuwayrī. The author is dependent on Quṭb al-Dīn al-Ḥalabī, 735 [1334/5] and al-Bukhārī 194-256 [810-870].
• Collation: Paper ; fol. i + xviii + 206 + i ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 27 lines per page ; frame-ruled in red.
• Description: Rubricated ; some vowel signs ; watermarks (shield with a face-in-the-moon, roman-alphabet letters "AG") ; MS in excellent condition.
• Origin: According to colophon copy completed Wednesday 8 Shaʻbān 1274 by Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Jazāyirī (fol. 206b).
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه نستعين الحمد والعظمة والکبريا لمن له الاسماء الحسنى الحي الدائم الباقي الذي لا بيبد ولا يغانا ... اما بعد فقد قال الله العظيم في كتابه الكريم الا بذكر الله تطمين القلوب قال جماعة من السلف هو ذكر اصحابه ...
• Colophon: تمت هذه النسخة المبارکة في يوم الاربعاء المبارك لثمان بيقين من شعبان المبارك سنة 1274 على يد الفقير الحقير احمد بن محمد الجزايري ذي التقصير غفر الله له ولوالديه ولمشايخه وللمسلمين اجمعين والحمد لله رب العالمين وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد واله وصحبه وسلم

Binding note

Contemporaneous? type II (with flap) binding in red leather. Blind-stamped mandorla with pendants and wide blind-tooled frame on covers. Similar decoration on flap. Multi-colored endbands.

Provenance

Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 689.
• Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), II, p. 648.
• Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 10020/1.
• Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, V, p. 42.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

1340424889

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