Details

Subject(s)

• Islamic learning and scholarship—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Scribe

• Maydanī, Muḥammad, active 16th century [Browse]

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Related name

• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 498H [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Watermarks (Paper) [Browse]

Summary note

A work on the requisites of learning and teaching and on the definitions of the subject-matter of the different sciences.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from title page (fol. 1a).
• A few marginal notes.
• Collation: Paper ; fol. 13 + (1) ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 11 lines per page.
• Description: Rubricated ; watermarks ; MS in fair condition.
• Origin: According to colophon copied beginning of Rabīʻ al-Thānī 1007 by Muḥammad al-Maydānī al-Shāfiʻī (fol. 13a).
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وصلى الله قال سيدنا ومولانا شيخ مشايخ الاسلام زكريا الانصارى ... وبعد فهذه رسالة مستملة على بيان شروط تعليم ...
• Colophon: کتبه محمد الميداني الشافعي اوايل ربيع الثاني سنة سبع والف وصلى الله وسلم على سيدنا محمد وآله وصحبه والتابعين تسليما کثيرًا. آمين

Binding note

Unbound.

Provenance

Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 788.
• Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), V, p. 345.
• Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, VII, pp. 57, 158, 605.
• Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 79-81.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

1340421335

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