Details

Subject(s)

• Hadith—Texts—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Hadith—Authorities—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. 722H [Browse]

Rare books genre

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

Summary note

The fourth volume of an extensive collection of traditions under headings arranged alphabetically. This volume also deals with the life of some of the Prophet's Companions and some traditionists.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from colophon (fol. 323a).
• Marginal notes and glosses; marginal summaries. The title appears on the edges. Inscriptions following the colophon.
• Collation: Paper ; fol. 323 + i ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 21 lines per page.
• Description: Abbreviation marks in red ; vowel signs ; MS in good condition; repairs to edges of folios.
• Origin: MS is probably from XlVth century.
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم باب الحرف الف بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم ... الباب التاسع من کتاب الفضائل في فضائل الاعمال والاقوال وفيه ثلثة عشر فصلا ...
• Colophon: تم الجزء الرابع من کتاب جامع الاصول في احاديث الرسول صلوات الله وسلامه عليه ويتلوه في الجزء الخامس الذي بتمامه يتم الکتاب ان شاءالله تعالى کتاب اللواحق. والحمدلله رب العالمين وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد واله وصحبه اجمعين وحسبنا الله ونعم الوکيل وسلم وتسيلما

Binding note

Later type II (with flap) binding in light brown leather. Blind-stamped mandorla with blind-tooled edging on covers. Similar decoration on flap. Marbled paper pastedowns. Flap lined with leather with blind-tooled edging.

Provenance

Ownership signatures: Yūsuf ibn Muḥammad al-Dimashqī, Darwīsh Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī al-Bartaʻī[?], Muḥammad ibn Kamāl al-Dīn ibn Ḥamzah al-Ḥusaynī, ʻAbd al-Karīm ibn Muḥammad ibn Kamāl al-Dīn ibn al-Sayyid Ḥamzah al-Ḥusaynī al-Ḥanafī, Aḥmad ibn ʻUbayd al-ʻAṭṭār al-Shāfiʻī dated 1197 (fol. 1a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1381.
• Ibn Khallikān, Wafayāt (1299 AH), II, p. 203.
• Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), II, pp. 501-5.
• Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, I, pp. 294-6.
• Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 1311.
• Catalogue des manuscrits arabes de la Bibliothèque Nationale, 728/9.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

1340423580

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