Details

Subject(s)

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

Scribe

• Sūrānī, Mūsá ibn Muḥammad, active 18th century [Browse]

Related name

• سوراني، موسى بن محمد، active 18th century [Browse]
• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 723H [Browse]

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Autographs [Browse]
• Blind tooled bindings [Browse]
• Headbands [Browse]
• Colored papers (Paper) [Browse]
• Watermarks (Paper) [Browse]

Contains

• Ibn al-Athīr, Majd al-Dīn al-Mubārak ibn Muḥammad, 1149-1209. Jāmiʻ al-uṣūl li-aḥādīth al-Rasūl. Selections. [Browse]
• ابن الاثير، مجد الدين المبارك بن محمد، 1149-1209. جامع الاصول لاحاديث الرسول. مختارات. [Browse]
• Haythamī, Nūr al-Dīn ʻAlī ibn Abī Bakr, 1335-1405. Majmaʻ al-zawāʼid wa-manbaʻ al-fawāʼid. Selections. [Browse]
• هيثمي، نور الدين علي بن ابي بكر، 1335-1405. مجمع الزوائد. مختارات. [Browse]

Summary note

A corpus of traditions based on Jāmiʻ al-uṣūl fī aḥādīth al-Rasūl by Majd al-Dīn ibn al-Athīr and Majmaʻ al-zawāʻid wa-manbaʻ al-fawāʼid by Nūr al-Dīn ʻAlī ibn Abī Bakr ibn Sulaymān ibn Ḥajar al-Haythamī.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from title page (fol. 8a).
• Marginal notes and glosses. On the eight folios before the title page is a table of contents (fol. ia-6b). Title page bears a note that there are 59 quires and 601 folios.
• Collation: Paper ; fol. i + 609 ; catchwords ; foliated in red ink using Hindu-Arabic numerals beginning on the title page ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 25 lines per page.
• Description: Rubricated ; vowel signs on the first two folios ; a few folios dyed yellow ; watermarks (three crescents, other unidentified marks) ; MS in good condition.
• Origin: According to colophon copied Sunday 20 Ṣafar 1159 by Mūsá ibn Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Kurdī al-Sūrānī (fol. 608b).
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم يا رب لك الحمد کما ينبغي لجلال وجهك وعظيم سلطانك ... اما بعد فهذا جمع الفوايد من جامع الاصول ومجمع الزوايد للامام بحر الدين ابى السعادات المبارك محمد بن الاثير الجزرى ...
• Colophon: سنة 1159. کتبه الحقير الفقيرالى رحمة الله الغني موسى بن محمد بن ابرهيم الکردي السوراني وکان ابتداء من هذه [الابتداء في هذا] الکتاب اول شهررمضان وکان الفراغ منه يوم الاحد من عشرين في الشهر الصفر رحمة الله علينا وعلى عامة الناس

Binding note

Contemporaneous type II (with flap) binding in red leather. Blind-stamped mandorla and blind-tooled edging on covers. Similar decoration on flap. Multi-colored endbands. Yellow paper pastedowns. In a case (214 x 166) of red leather and block-stamped paper.

Provenance

Ownership signature: Ṣadr al-Dīnʹzādah ʻAbd Allāh, al-qāḍī bi-Dimashq al-Shām, dated [11]67 (fol. ia). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1414.
• Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, I, p. 326.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

Other title(s)

• كتاب مجمع الزوايد وبحر الفوايد
• كتاب مجمع الفوائد

Title appearing on title page (fol. 8a)

• Kitāb Majmaʻ al-zawāyid wa-baḥr al-fawāyid

Title from label on case

• Kitāb Majmaʻ al-fawāʼid

OCLC

1340422637

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