Details

Subject(s)

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

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Scribe

• Nūr al-Dīn ibn Nūḥ, active 17th century [Browse]

Related name

• نور الدين بن نوح، active 17th century [Browse]
• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 947H [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Watermarks (Paper) [Browse]

Summary note

The universe as conceived in the Qurʼan and the traditions.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from preface (fol. 1a).
• A few marginal notes. On the top of the first page is the ending of another work and a table of contents of the present one.
• Collation: Paper ; fol. 21 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 21 lines per page.
• Description: Rubricated ; watermarks (crown-star-crescent) ; MS in fair condition.
• Origin: According to colophon copy completed Thursday 16 Dhū al-Qaʻdah 1088 by Nūr al-Dīn ibn Nūḥ (fol. 21b).
• Incipit: قال الشيخ الامام الاجل جلال الدين ... بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله الذي علمنا ما لم نكن نعلم ... وبعد فهذا کتاب في علم الهيئة السنية ...
• Colophon: تمت على يد افقر العباد واحوجهم الى عفو ربه الجوّاد الحقير نور الدين ابن نوح غفر الله لهما ولمن دعا لهما ولکل المسلمين آمين. وذلك نهار الخميس السادس عشر من شهر ذي القعدة سنة ثمانية وثمانين بعد الالف. وصلى الله وسلم على سيدنا محمد وعلى آله واصحابه اجمعين والحمد لله رب العالمين حسبنا الله ونعم الوکيل

Binding note

Unbound.

Provenance

Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 991.
• Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), VI, p. 506.
• Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 5697.
• A catalogue of the Arabic manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, 1035ˈˇ

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

Other title(s)

• مختصر العجايب
• Mukhtaṣar al-ʻajāʼib
• مختصر العجائب

Title preceding table of contents (fol. 1a)

• Mukhtaṣar al-ʻajāyib

OCLC

1340425097

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