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. 708H [Browse]

Rare books genre

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

Summary note

A section of a collection of traditions, probably the authorʼs minor collection entitled Kitāb al-Sunan al-ṣaghīr. This section contains chapters 10 (in part) - 48 (in part).

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from title page (fol. ia).
• Marginal notes and glosses. MS incomplete at the beginning and the end. The first page is illegible. Title also on lower edge of text block.
• Collation: Paper ; fol. ii + 110 + i ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 15 lines per page.
• Description: Rubricated ; vowel signs ; watermarks (later endpapers only: crown-star-crescent) ; MS in fair condition; mended. Extensive staining on first folios affecting legibility.
• Origin: Probably from the XlVth century.
• Beginning of folio 1b:. ويستحب لمن ضل الطريق في ارض قفران يؤذن
• Ending: ويقدم حق معلمه على حق ابويه وساير المسلمين ولا پضن بشيء

Binding note

Later half-bound type III (without flap) binding in brown leather and marbled paper. Endbands.

Provenance

Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1371.
• Ibn Khallikān, Wafayāt (1299 AH), I, p. 35.
• Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), III, p. 627.
• Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, I, pp. 351/2.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

1340420704

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