Details

Subject(s)

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

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Scribe

• Shihāb al-Baghdādī, Jābir ibn Sālim, active 16th century [Browse]

Related name

• شهاب البغدادي، جابر بن سالم، active 16th century [Browse]
• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 755H [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Cloth bindings [Browse]
• Headbands [Browse]
• Watermarks (Paper) [Browse]

Summary note

A collection of forty traditions.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from title page (fol. 1a).
• Marginal notes and glosses. Title page has short extracts from Kitāb Ṣadr al-Sharīʻah, and Kitāb al-Najjārī. Title on lower edge of text block.
• Collation: Paper ; fol. 73 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 13 lines per page.
• Description: Text and notes written in red, black, green and indigo ; vowel signs ; folios were trimmed and, to preserve notes, they were folded ; watermarks (circle topped with a star) ; MS in good condition except stained with water.
• Origin: According to colophon copied 15 Rajab 965 by Jābir ibn Sālim ibn Shihāb al-Baghdādī (fol. 73a).
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه نستعين الحمد لله رب العالمين والعاقبة للمتقين وعدوان الا علي الظالمين ... وبعد فان العبد الفقير المذنب محمد بن ابي [بكر] رضي الله عنه بعد طول خوضه في بحر الذنوب ...
• Explicit: تمت الكتاب بعون الملك الوهاب على يد اضعف العباد وافقرهم الراجي رحمة رب الغفور الحاج جابر بن سالم بن الحاج شهاب البغدادي غفر الله له ولوالديه والجميع المؤمنين والمؤمنات ... وقع الفراغ من تسخته في خامس عشر شهر رجب المرجب من شهور سنة خمس وستين وتسعماية

Binding note

Later type II (with flap) binding in red leather and green fabric. Multi-colored endbands.

Provenance

Acquired from Brill, Leyden, A.D. 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1444.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

Other title(s)

• Arbaʻīn al-maḥkah
• اربعين المحكة

OCLC

1340425687

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