Details

Subject(s)

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

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Scribe

• Baḥr al-Mālikī, Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, active 18th century [Browse]

Related name

• بحر المالكي، محمد بن محمد، active 18th century [Browse]
• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 762H [Browse]

Rare books genre

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

Getty AAT genre

• headpieces (layout features) [Browse]
• illuminated manuscripts [Browse]

Summary note

A collection of forty traditions extensively explained by other traditions and metrical selections.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from title page (fol. 1a).
• A few marginal notes.
• Collation: Paper ; fol. 128 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 31-32 lines per page ; frame-ruled in red.
• Description: Entries in red, headings in red or green ; overlining and verse separators in red ; watermarks (crown-star-crescent variant with two animals below the crown [dogs?]) ; MS in good condition.
• Decoration: Illuminated headpiece in gold, red, black and blue-green. Opening spread frame-ruled in gold and blue-green (fol. 1b-2a).
• Origin: According to colophon copied Thursday 23 Rajab 1135 by Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, known as al-Baḥr al-Mālikī (fol. 128a).
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم اخبرنا الشيخ الامام العالم الاوحد الحافظ ابو سعيد صلاح الدين خليل بن الامير المرحوم بدر الدين كيكلدى ... الحمد لله رب العالمين لارب سواه ... اما بعد فقد كثر من ايمة الحديث الاعلام فن القديم والحديث من الاعوام ...
• Colophon: قد منّ الله تعالى وانعم باتمام هذا الکتاب على يد العبد الفقير محمد بن محمد الشهير بالبحر المالکي غفر الله ذنوبه وملأ من الخير ذنوبه في صبيحة يوم الخميس الثالث والعشرين من شهر رجب الفرد سنة خمس وثلاثين وماية والف. والحمد لله. تم

Binding note

Contemporaneous? type II (with flap) binding in brown leather. Blind-stamped mandorla and blind-tooled decorative edging on covers. Similar decoration on flap. Red paper pastedowns.

Provenance

Obscured ownership signature of Muṣṭafá (fol. 1a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1438.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

1340424209

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