[كتاب تراجم].

[Kitāb Tarājim].

Author
Format
Manuscript, Book
Language
Arabic
Published/​Created
5 Ṣafar 1091 [March 12, 1680]
Description
259 leaves : paper ; 208 x 152 (160 x 100) mm bound to 204 x 146 mm.

Details

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Donor
Scribe
Related name
Rare books genre
Summary note
The second volume of a biographical dictionary. It contains the lives of 189 shaykhs.
Notes
  • Ms. codex.
  • Title supplied by cataloger.
  • Front pastedown records death dates for several people. Fol. 1a has some obliterated text and some numbers. Following the colophon is a short addition. On the next folio are a diagram and some numerals.
  • Collation: Paper ; fol. 259 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
  • Layout: 23 lines per page.
  • Description: Rubricated ; watermarks (crown) ; MS in fair condition, binding loose and in poor condition.
  • Origin: According to colophon copied Wednesday 5 Ṣafar 1091 by Aḥmad ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Aḥmad Bakkār (fol. 259a).
  • Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وصلى على سيدنا محمد ومولانا محمد. ابو حبيب سعيد بن محمد بن سحنون ...
  • Colophon: فرغ من نسخه يوم الاربعاء بعد صلاة العصر لخمس خلون [من] صفر عام 1091 (؟) کاتبه فقير عفو ربه ... من تراکم ذنبه والمتوسل الى الله بنبيه محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم ان يغفر له ما مضا [مضى] ويصلح له ما بقي هو وذريته احمد بن ابراهيم بن احمد بکار غفر الله له ولوالديه ولجميع المسلمين. وجد بآخر النسخة التي نسخنا منها عدد اشياخ السفر الثاني ماية وتسعة وثمانون شيخا نفعنا الله بهم. تم
Binding note
Contemporaneous? type III (without flap) binding in brown leather. Blind-stamped mandorla with pendants and blind-tooled edging.
Language note
Arabic;
Script
Maghribī.
Provenance
Fol. 1a has the signature of Muḥammad al-Maṣmūdī ibn ʻAbd al-Laṭīf. Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 691.
Other format(s)
Also available in an electronic version.
OCLC
1292743376
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