Details

Subject(s)

• Ṭaḥāwī, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad 852?-933—Maʻānī al-āthār [Browse]
• Hadith—Commentaries—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. 727Hq [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Blind tooled bindings [Browse]
• Gold tooled bindings [Browse]
• Watermarks [Browse]

Summary note

The first volume of a commentary on Maʻānī al-āthār, a work on the obscure ideas and allusions in the traditions by Abū Jaʻfar Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Ṭaḥāwī.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from title page (fol. 1a).
• A few marginal notes and glosses. Table of contents and several osbscured inscriptions on the title page (fol. 1a).
• Collation: Paper ; fol. 222 ; catchwords ; partially foliated in ink using Hindu-Arabic numerals ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 35 lines per page ; frame-ruled in red ; opening spread frame-ruled in gold (fol. 1b-2a).
• Description: Rubricated ; watermarks (three crescents; star) ; MS in good condition.
• Origin: Probably from the XVIth century.
• Colophon: هذا اخرما وجد من خط المؤلف من الجزء الاول من الشرح
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم ... الحمد لله واشكر شكرا كثيرا ... وبعد فاني لما فرغت من توشيح رجال معاني الاثآر شرعت في الشرح الذي ترحمته بمباني الاخبار ...

Binding note

Later type II (with flap) binding in brown leather. Cover patched together from light brown upper cover with color-stamped mandorla outlined in gold and decorative gold-tooled edging; light brown lower cover with blind-stamped mandorla and pendants; and dark brown flap with blind-stamped design outlined in gold and gold-tooled edging. Spine and flap fore-edge of tan leather. Flap lined with red leather. Marbled paper pastedowns. Not sewn.

Provenance

Acquired from Brill, Leyden, A.D. 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1394.
• Suyūṭī, ḥusn al-Muḥāḍarah (1321 AH), I, p. 224.
• Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), V, p. 614.
• Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, I, p. 396.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

1340421158

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