Details

Subject(s)

• Hadith—Texts—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. 754H [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Watermarks (Paper) [Browse]

Summary note

A collection of forty traditions.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from caption (fol. before 1a).
• A few marginal notes. The colophon is in Turkish. Inscriptions on upper flyleaves and folio 47a.
• Collation: Paper ; fol. ii + 47 + i ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 19 lines per page.
• Description: Rubricated ; watermarks (eagle with roman-alphabet letters "TSC"; other unidentified marks) ; MS in good condition.
• Origin: According to colophon copied 25 R[abīʻah] I 1266 by Muṣṭafá in Mamlakat Ṭāshkubir Būnī (fol. 46a).
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله رب العالمين والعاقبة للمتقين ... وبعد فان العبد المذنب محمد بن ابي بکر رحمه الله عليه بعد طول حوضه في بحر الذنوب ...
• Colophon: کتبه الفقيرالحقيرالعاصي مصطفى بمملکته طاشکبر بوني يازدم ياد کار او لمق ايجونردوقيان دکليان بردعاقلمق ايجون. تاريخ 25 ر[بيع] أ[ول] سنة 1266

Binding note

Contemporaneous? type II (with flap) binding in red leather and blue and red marbled paper. Yellow paper pastedowns and flyleaves.

Language note

Arabic;

Script

Fārisī.

Provenance

Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1443.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

Other title(s)

حديث اربعين

Title on preliminary leaf

• Ḥadīth arbaʻīn

OCLC

1340421523

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