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Subject(s)

• Qurʼan Sūrat al-Dukhān 1-15—Commentaries—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Laylat al-Barāʼah—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Scribe

• Naqīb, Muḥammad ibn Yūnus, active 18th century [Browse]

Related name

• نقيب، محمد بن يونس، active 18th century [Browse]
• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 952H [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Watermarks (Paper) [Browse]

Summary note

An exegesis of Sūrah XLIV:1-15 and a discussion of the middle night in the month of Shaʻbān.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from title page (fol. 1a).
• Marginal notes and glosses. Colophon followed by a short addition from Shihāb al-Dīn al-Falyūtī "fī nukatihi wa-nawādirihi muhimmat sabīl Ibn ʻAbbās" (fol. 25a-b). Short fāʼidah on folio 26a.
• Collation: Paper ; fol. 26 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 23 lines per page ; ruled.
• Description: Rubricated ; watermarks (crown-star-crescent) ; MS in good condition.
• Origin: According to colophon copy completed Thursday 8 [Dhū] al-Ḥijjah 1116 by Muḥammad ibn Yūnus al-Naqīb (fol. 25a).
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه نستعين الحمد لله المتحكم بكلام ... وبعد فهذه نبذة عذبة المنهل في ذکر ليلة نصف شعبان المفضل ...
• Colophon: وکان الفراغ من هذه النسخة المبارکة يوم الخميس ثامن شهر الحجة من شهور سنة الف وماية وستت [ستة] عشر من الهجرة النبوية على صاحبها افضل الصلاة والسلام والحمد لله رب العالمين على يد فقير خلق الله واحقرهم الفقيرالمعترف بالذنب والتقصير محمد بن يونس النقيب بالازهرغفرالله له ولوالديه ولمن دعا له بالمغفرة امين والحمد لله رب العالمين

Binding note

Later? quarter-bound type III (without flap) limp binding in brown leather and marbled paper. Tan paper pastedowns.

Provenance

Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1328.
• Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, VII, p. 17.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

1391990135

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