Details

Subject(s)

• Nawawī 1233-1277—Arbaʻūn al-Nawawīyah [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. 752H [Browse]

Rare books genre

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

Summary note

A commentary on al-Arbaʻūn ḥadīth of al-Nawawī.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from text (fol. 1b).
• Marginal notes and glosses. It is stated in the colophon that the work was composed 1010/1601. Long notes on folio 1a and 152b related to Ibn Ḥajar's commentary of Nawawī's Arbaʻīn.
• Collation: Paper ; fol. 152 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 23 lines per page ; frame-ruled in red.
• Description: Rubricated ; watermarks (crown-star-crescent) ; MS in good condition.
• Origin: Probably from the XVIIth century.
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وصلي الله علي سيدنا محمد ... الحمد لله وكفي والصلاة والسلام علي اشرف الرسل المصطفي وبعد فيقول العبد الفقير ... عبد الروف بن المناوي هذا تعليق مختصر على الاربعين حديثا التي جمعها ... النووي ...
• Colophon: فرغ من تأليفه العبد الفقيرعبد الرؤف بن المناوي في غرة صفر سنة عشر والف. هذا ما وجد في نسخة کتبت بخط المؤلف رحمه الله تعالى ثاني نسخة ونقل منها على صورته

Binding note

Upper and lower covers differ. Upper cover of light brown leather with blind-stamped circular motif and blind-tooled edging. Lower cover of dark brown leather with blind-stamped mandorla with pendants. Outer edges of both covers repaired with leather. Modern repair on spine. Not currently sewn.

Provenance

Obscured ownership signatures on folio 1a. Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1435.
• Khulāṣat al-Athar, II, p. 414.
• Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 1500.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

Other title(s)

شرح الاربعين

Title on lower edge of text block

• Sharḥ al-Arbaʻīn

OCLC

1340424989

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