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Subject(s)

• Shāfiʻī, Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad 1436 or 1437-1499 or 1500—Tuḥfat al-ʻibād bi-mā yajibu min al-iʻtiqād [Browse]
• Islam—Doctrines—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Scribe

• Dayrī, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad, active 17th century [Browse]

Related name

• ديري، احمد بن محمد، active 17th century [Browse]
• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 997H [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Autographs [Browse]
• Stamps [Browse]
• Blind tooled bindings [Browse]
• Watermarks (Paper) [Browse]

Summary note

A commentary on Tuḥfat al-ʻibād bi-mā yajibu min al-iʻtiqād, a metrical treatise on dogma, by Abū al-Faḍl Muḥammad al-Shāfiʻī.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from list of contents (fol. 1a).
• Marginal notes and glosses. Inscriptions and a listing of contents, not all present in current MS (fol. 1a-2a). On the eight folios after the colophon are: A dogmatical treatise by Muẓaffar ibn Aḥmad ibn Abī Saʻīd (fol. 71a-75b), and a traditional treatise on the excellences of the first four Companions of the Prophet (fol. 75b-78b).
• Collation: Paper ; fol. 79 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 19 lines per page ; ruled.
• Description: Text in red and commentary in black ; watermarks (anchor) ; MS in good condition.
• Origin: According to colophon copy completed Wednesday in the first part of Jumādá al-Ākhir 1012 by Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Sayf ibn Muḥammad al-Dayrī al-Shāfiʻī al-Kawkabī (fol. 70b).
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم اللهم تمم بالخير الحمد لله القادر العليم ... وبعد فان احسن ما الف من العقائد الاسلامية الارجوزة المسماه بتحفة العباد بما يجب من الاعتقاد نظم الشيخ الاسلام وقدوة الانام العلامه ابى فضل محمد الشافعى المزيدة على عقيدة الشيبانى ...
• Colophon: وکان الفراغ من نسخ هذا الکتاب المبارك نهارالاربعاء وقت الضحى في العشرالاول شهرجمادى الآخرمن شهورسنة الف واثنا [اثني] عشر من الهجرة النبوية على صاحبها افضل الصلاة واتم السلام وکتبه لنفسه احمد بن محمد بن الحاج سيف ابن الحاج محمد الديري بلدا ومولدا ومنشئا الشافعي مذهبا الکوکبي طريقة غفرالله له ولوالديه ولمن علمه واحسن اليه ولمشايخه ولاخوانه ولکل المسلمين والمرجوممن قرأ فيه ان يذکرکاتبه بالدعاء والمغفرة اللهم اغفرللمؤمنين والمؤمنات الاحياء منهم والاموات صلى الله وسلم على سيدنا محمد واله وصحبه

Binding note

Type II (with flap) binding in brown leather. Blind-stamped mandorla with pendants and blind-tooled edging on covers. Similar decoration on flap.

Provenance

Seal impression of Muṣṭafá (fol. 1a). Ownership signatures: Shaʻbān Ḥilmī[?] ibn Manṣūr al-Sāyighī (fol. 1b); Abī Bakr ibn Muṣṭafá al-Kurdī al-ʻImādī (fol. 2a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1569.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

1393992122

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