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. 706H [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Autographs [Browse]
• Stamps [Browse]
• Watermarks (Paper) [Browse]
• Embossed papers (Paper) [Browse]

Summary note

A compendium of wisdom sayings and sermonettes selected from the traditions.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from title page (fol. 1a).
• A few marginal notes and glosses. Title also appears on label on the upper cover. The work is referred to in Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), IV, p. 83 under the title Shihāb al-akhbār fī al-ḥikam wa-al-amthāl wa-al-ādāb min al-aḥādīth al-nabawīyah. Folio 1a has a note that there are 38 folios.
• Collation: Paper ; fol. i + 38 + i ; catchwords ; foliation in ink using Hindu-Arabic numerals ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 15 lines per page.
• Description: Overlining in red ; vowel signs ; watermarks (anchor with countermark) ; MS in fair condition; worm-eaten.
• Origin: Probably from XVIIth century.
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه نستعين قال الشيخ الامام العالم العلامة ابو عبدالله محمد القضاعي رحمه الله تعالى ... اما بعد فان في الالفاظ النبوية والاداب الشرعية جلأ لقلوب العارفين ...
• Colophon: کمل الکتاب المبارك بحمد الله تعالى وعونه وحسن توفيقه

Binding note

Later? type II (with flap) binding in brown leather and green embossed paper.

Provenance

Ownership signatures: Aḥmad ibn Maḥmūd al-Banūfirī al-Ḥusaynī al-Ḥanafī dated 1189 with his seal impression (fol. ia); Yūsuf Afandī Mustaqẓān[..?] dated 1124 with his seal impression (fol. 1a and 38b). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1370.
• Ibn Khallikān, Wafayāt (1299 AH), II, p. 243.
• Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), IV pp. 83/4.
• Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, I, p. 367.
• Catalogue des manuscrits arabes de la Bibliothèque Nationale, 1952.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

Other title(s)

• Jawāhir al-kalim wa-badāʼiʻ al-ḥikam al-nabawīyah
• جواهرالکلم وبدائع الحکم النبوية
• كلمات النبوية
• Shihāb al-akhbār fī al-ḥikam wa-al-amthāl wa-al-ādāb min al-aḥādīth al-nabawīyah
• شهاب الاخبار في الحكم والامثال والآداب من الاحاديث النبوية

Title from preliminary leaf

• Kalimāt al-nabawīyah

OCLC

1340425612

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