Details

Subject(s)

• Hadith—Dictionaries—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Arabic language—Lexicography—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Scribe

• Muḥammad al-Ṣādiq ibn ʻAlī, active 19th century [Browse]

Related name

• محمد الصادق بن علي، active 19th century [Browse]
• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 214L [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Watermarks [Browse]
• Autographs [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• illuminated manuscripts [Browse]
• headpieces (layout features) [Browse]

Related work(s)

• Ibn al-Athīr, Majd al-Dīn al-Mubārak ibn Muḥammad, 1149-1209. Nihāyah fī gharīb al-Ḥadīth wa-al-athar. [Browse]
• ابن الاثير، مجد الدين المبارك بن محمد، 1149-1209. نهاية في غريب الحديث والاثر. [Browse]

Summary note

An abridgment of al-Nihāyah fī gharīb al-ḥadīth wa-al-athar, a dictionary of the uncommon terms in traditions which are authentic but resting on the authority of only one Companion, by Majd al-Dīn Ibn al-Athīr.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from preface (fol. 1b).
• Marginal notes and glosses. Insert describing the manuscript.
• Collation: Paper ; fol. i + 220 + i ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 25 lines per page ; frame-ruled in red.
• Description: Rubricated ; watermarks (lion, roman-alphabets initials "VC", coat-of-arms?) ; MS in good condition.
• Decoration: Illuminated headpiece in gold, pink, red, blue and white (fol. 1b). Opening spread frame-ruled in gold, red and black (fol. 1b-2a).
• Origin: According to colophon copy completed Tuesday 5 Dhū al-Ḥijjah 1219 by Muḥammad al-Ṣādiq ibn ʻAlī (fol. 220a).
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم ... الحمد لله على ما انعم ... هذا مؤلف لخصت فيه کتاب النهاية فى غريب الحديث البن الاثير سميته بالدر النثير
• Colophon: وکان الفراغ من تنميق هذه النسخة المبارکة المرغوبة اللطيفة وقت صلاة الضحى على يد افقر العباد السيد الحاج محمد الصادق ابن الحاج علي غفرالله ذنوبهما وسترعيوبهما في اليوم المبارك نهار الثلثاء خامس شهر ذي الحجة سنة تسع عشرة ومائتين والف لهجرة من له العز والشرف

Binding note

Later type II (with flap) binding in red leather and gray marbled paper. Orange paper pastedowns. Flap is missing.

Provenance

Ownership signature: ʻAbd Allāh, first Imām of Jāmiʻ Abū Ayyūb? al-Anṣārī (fol. 1a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1904.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1384.
• Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), VI, p. 403.
• A catalogue of the Arabic manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, 1000.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

Other title(s)

لغة غريب حديث در النثير

Title on lower edge of text block

• Lughat gharīb ḥadīth Durr al-nathīr

OCLC

1340422400

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