Details

Subject(s)

• Islam—Doctrines—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Islamic law—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. 992H [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Leather doublures [Browse]
• Blind tooled bindings [Browse]
• Autographs [Browse]

Summary note

A collection of ingenious questions and their answers relating to subtleties of theology and law.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from title page (fol. 1a).
• A few marginal notes and glosses. Inscriptions (fol. 72b).
• Collation: Paper ; fol. i + 72 + i ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 21 lines per page.
• Description: Rubricated ; pages have been trimmed ; MS in good condition.
• Origin: According to colophon copied by Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī (fol. 71b).
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم ... الحمد لله رب العالمين الموجد الا شيا بلا معين ... وبعد فهذا کتاب اذ کرفيه اجوبة عن ...
• Colophon: تم الکتاب علقه بخطه لنفسه محمد بن علي

Binding note

Later type II (with flap) binding in brown leather. Blind-stamped mandorla with pendants and cornerpieces and blind-tooled decorative edging on covers. Round medallion and blind-tooled edging on flap. Leather doublures. Binding in poor condition.

Provenance

Signatures: Muḥammad al-Marādhaḥī[?] and other obscured signatures (fol. 1a); Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Ghazzī dated 916 (fol. 71b); ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʻAbd Allāh al-Ḥanbalī (fol. following fol. 27). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1494.
• Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), V, pp. 199/200.
• Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, VI, p. 180.
• Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 1816-9.
• Rieu, Supplement of the catalogue of the Arabic Mss, 196.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

1340420218

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