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. 747H [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Blind tooled bindings [Browse]
• Autographs [Browse]
• Stamps [Browse]
• Certificates [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• illuminated manuscripts [Browse]

Summary note

A collection of traditions. The original work contained 222 traditions. This fragment comprises 127 traditions (1-85 and 106-147). The work is also known as Maʻānī al-akhbār.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from title page (fol. 1a).
• Marginal notes. MS lacking a number of folios in the middle and incomplete at the end. Samʻ certificate on title page.
• Collation: Paper ; fol. 169 ; quires signed: 2-21 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 19 lines per page ; frame-ruled in red.
• Description: Vowel signs ; ḥadīth numbers in red ink ; MS in good condition. Some repairs. MS is rare.
• Decoration: Illuminated title page. Title in square framed with gold and blue lines with gold and black cloud and floral fill with blue highlights.
• Origin: Probably from early XIII century.
• Ending: ان تقدم زمان انفاقه وقتاله فله فضيلة سبق الزمان الذي لا يلام
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الصلاه والتسليم علي سيدنا محمد اخبرنا الامام الا[ديب] العالم ابو نصر محمد بن عبد الله بن احمد الارغياني ...

Binding note

Later type II (with flap) binding in red leather. Blind-stamped mandorla with pendants and blind-tooled frame and edging on covers. Similar decoration on flap. Blue marbled paper pastedowns. Not currently sewn.

Provenance

Ownership signatures obscured by repairs on folio 1. Seal impression at bottom of folio 69a. Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1368.
• Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), II, p. 20.
• Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, I, p. 275.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

Other title(s)

• Kitāb Baḥr al-fawāʼid.
• كتاب بحر الفوائد.

OCLC

1340425752

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