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. 753H [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Autographs [Browse]

Summary note

A commentary on al-Arbaʻūn of al-Nawawī.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from title page (fol. 1a).
• Marginal notes and glosses. Waqf note at beginning and ending of each quire erased.
• Collation: Paper ; fol. 108 + i ; catchwords ; quires partially signed: al-thānī-al-ʻāshir ; foliation in ink using Hindu-Arabic numerals ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 23 lines per page.
• Description: Text in red and commentary in black ; MS in good condition.
• Origin: According to colophon copied 13 Rabīʻ al-Awwal 1141 by its owner (fol. 118b).
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه النستعين قال سيدنا ومولانا الشيخ العالم ... ابو الفصل محمد ولي الدين الشبشيري ... حمدًا لمن افاض فضله على العالم ... وبعد فان خير اربعين مولف في سنة النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم ...
• Colophon: وکان الفراغ من کتابته يوم الثلاث عاشر يوم شهر ربيع الاول من شهور سنة الف وماية سبعة واربعين من الهجرة النبوية على صاحبها افضل الصلاة والسلام والحمد لله اولا واخرًا وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد وعلى اله وصحبه وسلم امين

Binding note

Contemporaneous? half-bound type III (without flap) binding in brown leather and marbled paper. Badly worn. Possibly a type II binding without its flap.

Provenance

Ownership signature: ʻAlī, Nāʼib al-Ḥaram dated [1]269 (fol. 1a). Other inscriptions on the title page are obscured. Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1436.
• Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), I, p. 241.
• Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, I, pp. 327/8.
• Pertsch, Die orientalischen handschriften der Herzoglichen bibliothek zu Gotha, 616.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

1340420515

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