Details

Subject(s)

• Hadith—Texts—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Gratitude—Religious aspects—Islam—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. 744H [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Certificates [Browse]
• Headbands [Browse]

Summary note

A collection of traditions on giving thanks.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from title page (fol. 1a).
• Marginal notes and glosses. Several certificates (samʻ and qirāʼah) in the margins of the initial and final pages.
• Collation: Paper ; fol. i + 47 ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 13 lines per page.
• Description: Vowel signs ; MS in good condition; mended. MS has been trimmed with slight loss of marginal text. MS is extremely rare.
• Origin: Probably from Xllth century.
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه استعين اخبرنا الشيخ الفقيه الامام العالم ... ابو طاهر احمد بن محمد بن احمد السلفى الاصبهانى ...
• Colophon: آخرالکتاب والحمد لله وحده وصلواته على سيدنا محمد واله وصحبه اجمعين کلما ذکره الذاکرون وغفل عنه الغافلون

Binding note

Later type II (with flap) binding in brown leather and red paper. Multi-colored endbands.

Provenance

Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1420.
• Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), V, p. 105.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

1340425934

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