Details

Subject(s)

• Antichrist—Islam—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Scribe

• Dhiyāb, Muḥammad, active 17th century [Browse]

Related name

• ذياب، محمد، active 17th century [Browse]
• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 1007H [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Watermarks (Paper) [Browse]

Summary note

A treatise on the Antichrist.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from title page (fol. 1a).
• A few marginal notes.
• Collation: Paper ; fol. i (later paper) + 13 + i ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 21 lines per page.
• Description: Rubricated ; some vowel signs ; watermarks (three crescents) ; MS in fair condition, worm-eaten. Folios 11-13 damage in inside upper corner with slight loss of text.
• Origin: According to colophon copy completed Friday 14 Jumādá al-Ākhirah 1064 by Muḥammad Dhiyāb (fol. 13a).
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم رب يسر الحمد لله بديع السموات والارض ... وبعد فانه لما کان اعظم الفتن الواقعة في الدنيا بقدر الله تعالى فتنة الدجال وهى كاينة في هذه الامة ...
• Colophon: وکان الفراغ يوم الجمعة المبارك رابع عشر جمادى الآخرة سنة 1064 کاتبه محمد ذياب

Binding note

Later type II (with flap) limp binding in red leather and red paper.

Provenance

Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1528.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

1340420422

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