Details

Subject(s)

• Hadith—Texts—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. 687H [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Blind tooled bindings [Browse]
• Autographs [Browse]
• Colored papers (Paper) [Browse]

Summary note

A section of al-Jāmiʻ al-ṣaḥīḥ, corresponding to vol. IV, p. 221 - VI, p. 154 of the Būlāq edition, 1296.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title supplied by cataloger.
• Marginal notes and glosses. The last eight folios pertain to another section. Inscriptions on folio 1a.
• Collation: Paper ; fol. i + (i) + 293 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 17 lines per page.
• Description: Rubricated ; vowel signs ; paper tinted reddish-brown ; MS in poor condition; pages loose, paper worm-eaten, stained and fragile.
• Origin: Probably from the XlVth century.
• Incipit: باب مبعث النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم محمد بن عبدالله بن عبدالمطلب بن هاشم بن عبد المناف ...
• Ending.: ... ومرعبدالرحمن ابي بکر وفي ىده جرىدة رطبة فنظرالىه النبي صلى الله علىه وسلم

Binding note

Later type II (with flap) binding in dark brown leather. Blind-stamped mandorla and blind-tooled edging on covers. Similar decoration on flap.

Provenance

Ownership signature: al-Sayyid ʻAlī ibn al-Ḥuṣnī (fol. (i)a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1340.
• Ibn Khallikān, Wafayāt (1299 AH), II, p. 231.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

1368018669

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