Details

Subject(s)

• ʻAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib Caliph approximately 600-661—Hadith [Browse]
• Hadith (Shiites)—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Prophets, Pre-Islamic—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Related name

• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 244H [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Blind tooled bindings [Browse]

Contains

• Sharīf al-Raḍī, Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn, 969 or 970-1016. Nahj al-balāghah. Selections. [Browse]
• شريف الرضي، محمد بن الحسين، 969 or 970-1016. نهج البلاغة. مختارات. [Browse]
• Kisāʼī, Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd Allāh, active 11th century. Qiṣaṣ al-anbiyāʼ. Selections. [Browse]
• كسائي، محمد بن عبد الله، active 11th century. قصص الانبياء. مختارات. [Browse]

Summary note

Two fragments, the first is a collection of some of the orations and the correspondence of the Caliph ʻAlī, evidently taken from Nahj al-balāghah. The second fragment is a collection of stories of the prophets commencing with Adam and concluding with Abraham, evidently taken from Qiṣaṣ al-anbiyāʼ by Abū Bakr al-Kisāʼī, who flourished ca. beginning of 5th/11th century.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from heading (fol. 1a).
• Marginal notes and glosses. On the first page is the title of the MS by a later hand. Both pastedowns covered in writing.
• Collation: Paper ; fol. 263 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 15-17 lines per page ; ruled.
• Description: Vowel signs ; MS in fair condition except several folios stained with dampness and several others foxed.
• Incipit: قال حدثنا ابو جعفر محمد بن علي ...
• Ending: ففرغ نمرود من ذلك وارتعد وخرت الاسود

Binding note

Contemporaneous? type III (without flap) binding in dark brown leather. Blind-tooled cenral motif and edging on cover.

Provenance

Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 742.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

1294313918

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