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Subject(s)

• Ibn al-Jawharī, Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad 1738 or 1739-1800 or 1801 [Browse]
• Ibn al-Jawharī, Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad 1738 or 1739-1800 or 1801—Arbaʻūn al-Jawharīyah [Browse]
• Hadith—Texts—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Hadith—Commentaries—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Hadith scholars—Biography—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. 758H [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Watermarks (Paper) [Browse]

Contains

• Ibn al-Jawharī, Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad, 1738 or 1739-1800 or 1801. Arbaʻūn al-Jawharīyah. [Browse]
• ابن الجوهري، محمد بن احمد، 1738 or 1739-1800 or 1801. اربعون الجوهرية. [Browse]

Summary note

A commentary on al-Arbaʻūn al-Jawharīyah, a collection of forty-four traditions by Abū Muḥammad Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad, known as Ibn al-Jawaharī.

Notes

• Ms. composite codex.
• Title from title page (fol. 1a).
• A few marginal notes. After the colophon and on the following fifteen folios is the life of the author of the ground work, al-Jawharī.
• Collation: Paper ; fol. 104 + (4) ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 21 lines per page ; frame-ruled in red.
• Description: Text in red and commentary in black ; some vowel signs ; watermarks (three cresents, roman-alphabet letters "FC") ; MS in fair condition; considerable amount of water staining but fully legible.
• Origin: [al-Kawākib al-durrīyah] Copied Monday 21 Ramaḍān 1187 (fol. 89b) -- [Life of al-Jawharī] Copied 1204 (fol.105a).
• Incipit: [الكواكب الدرية] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله وسلام على عباده ... وبعد فقد التمس مني محب الشرف مولاي محمد بن احمد الجوهري زاده الله تعالى ... [Life] جامعه المجيد المبجل الاخ في الله عز وجل ابو محمد بن احمد بن حسن ... المعروف بالجوهري ...
• Colophon:[الكواكب الدرية] انتهى مختصرًا من ذخيرة بن بسّام. قال جامعه حفظه الله تعالى آمين تم ما قصدناه والله الکريم الغفار وذلك في سويعة من يوم الاثنين المبارك الحادي والعشرين من رمضان سنة 1187 سبع وثمانين ومائة والف -- [Life] كان فراغ ناسخ هذه النسخة موافقا لتاريخ فراغ المؤلف من تحريرها وقتا ويوما وشهرا الا العام فانه عام سنة 1204 رب اغفر وارحم وتجاوز عما تعلم انك انت الا.. الاكرم

Binding note

Unbound. Sewn.

Contents

• 1. fol. 1a-89b: al-Kawākib al-durrīyah ʻalá al-Arbaʻīn al-Jawharīyah / taʼlīf Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad ibn Ismāʻīl al-Amīr al-Ḥasanī al-Yamanī.
• 2. fol. 89b-105a: [Life of al-Jawharī]
• 3. fol. 105b-(4)b: [Inscriptions]

Provenance

Acquired from Brill; Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1440.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

1340421830

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