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Subject(s)

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

Scribe

• Aḥmadī, Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, active 17th century [Browse]

Related name

• احمدي، محمد بن محمد، active 17th century [Browse]
• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 600H [Browse]

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Autographs [Browse]
• Watermarks (Paper) [Browse]

Summary note

A collection of dissertations on certain passages in the Qurʼan and traditions, and on several moral questions.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from title page (fol. 1a).
• A few marginal notes and glosses; marginal summaries. Evidently some folios are missing between folios one and two. Folio after colophon has an inscription in Ottoman Turkish and birth notices dated 1259 and 1252.
• Collation: Paper ; fol. 130 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 17 lines per page ; frame-ruled in red.
• Description: Rubricated ; some vowel signs ; watermarks (crown-star-crescent; countermark flower with roots) ; MS in good condition; mended.
• Origin: According to colophon copied 9 Rabīʻ al-Akhir 1073 by Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Aḥmadī (fol. 130a).
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم قال الله تعالى في سورة الانفطار ان الابرار اى المومنين المصدقين سروم لفى نعيم في جنة ...
• Colophon: وکان الفراغ منه في تاسع شهر ربيعي [ربيع] الاخر من شهور سنة 1073 م على يد افقر العباد الى لطف الملك الجواد الفقير محمد بن محمد بن احمد الاحمدي غفر الله له ولوالديه ولمشايخه والاقربين اليه امين

Binding note

Later quarter-bound type III (without flap) binding in red leather and paper.

Provenance

Signature of ʻAbd al-Raḥmān al-Miṣrī (fol. 1a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1242.
• Catalogue des manuscrits arabes de la Bibliothèque Nationale, 4537.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

1340420855

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