Details

Subject(s)

• Shāṭibī, al-Qāsim ibn Fīrruh 1144-1194—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]
• Muslim scholars—Biography—Early works to 1800 [Browse]

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Related name

• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 253H [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Autographs [Browse]

Summary note

A biography of al-Imām al-Shāṭibī 538-590 [1143/4-1193/4] with special attention to his sainthood and virtues. Incomplete at the end.

Notes

• Collation: Paper ; fol. 102 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Description: Rubricated ; vowel signs ; MS in fair condition.
• Layout: 11 lines per page ; ruled.
• Marginal notes and glosses.
• Ms. codex.
• Title from title page (fol. 1a).
• Colophon: فهذا آخر ما منّ الله به من فيض المکارم لسيرة الشاطبى ابي القسم
• Incipit: بسم الله ... الحمد لله الذي فضل بفضله من اختار

Binding note

Binding completely missing except for a small piece of the spine.

Provenance

• Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
• Ownership statements: [no name] dated 1087 [1676/7] and Aḥmad al-Marzūqī al-Ḥasanī al-Azharī al-Mālikī dated 25 Ramaḍān1247 [February 27, 1832]

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 10123.
• Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum orientalium (1846), 88''.
• Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), IV, p. 378.
• Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 701.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

Other title(s)

منحة من منح الفتح المواهبي تنبيء عن لمحة من سيرة ابي القاسم الشاطبي.

Title from text on fol. 2a

• Minḥah min minaḥ al-fatḥ al-Mawāhibī tunbiʼu ʻan lamḥah min sīrat Abī al-Qāsim al-Shāṭibī.

OCLC

1295014132

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