Details

Subject(s)

• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]
• Muslims—Biography—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Islamic Empire—History—Early works to 1800 [Browse]

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Related name

• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 197H [Browse]

Contains

• Nawawī, 1233-1277. Tahdhīb al-asmāʼ wa-al-lughāt. [Browse]
• نووي، 1233-1277. تهذيب الاسماء واللغات. [Browse]
• Yāfiʻī, ʻAbd Allāh ibn Asʻad, -1367. Mirʼāt al-janān wa-ʻibrat al-yaqẓān fī maʻrifat ḥawādith al-zamān. Selections. [Browse]
• يافعي، عبد الله بن اسعد، -1367. مرآه الجنان وعبرة اليقظان في معرفة حوادث الزمان. مختارات. [Browse]

Summary note

An abridgment of Nawawī's A biographical dictionary of illustrious men, chiefly at the beginning of Islam.

Notes

• Collation: Paper ; fol. 60 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Description: Rubricated ; MS in fair condition.
• Layout: 31 lines per page.
• MS is covered with marginal glosses which together with the seven folios following the colophon contain excerpts from Mirʼāt al-janān of al-Yāfiʻī, 768 [1366]. The remaining two folios contain excerpts from the history of Ibn Shuhbah 779-851 [1377/8-1447/8]. Title page is also full of historic excerpts.
• Ms. codex.
• Title from title page (fol. 1a).
• Colophon: نقل جميعه من اماکن من تهذيب الاسماء واللغات للعلامة شيخ الاسلام ابو زکريا يحيى النووي رضي الله عنه ونفعنا بعلمه والحمد لله وحده. انتهى
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم ذکر نسب رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم هو محمد بن عبد الله بن عبد المطلب ...

Binding note

Later type III (without flap) binding in red leather and brown marbled paper.

Provenance

Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 716.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

1292576658

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