Details

Subject(s)

• Islam—Customs and practices—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Islamic ethics—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Hanafites—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. 837 [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Stamps [Browse]
• Watermarks (Paper) [Browse]

Summary note

A treatise on religious and moral obligations.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from caption (fol. 1b).
• Marginal and interlinear notes and glosses. Heavily annotated throughout. Four leaves preceding the beginning of the text have inscriptions.
• Collation: Paper ; fol. iv + 75 + ii ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 19 lines per page.
• Description: Rubricated ; watermarks (later endpapers: coat-of-arms with lion; three crescents ; text: crown over cartouche; grapes; other unidentified) ; MS in good condition.
• Origin: According to colophon copy completed Rajab 1155 by Ibrāhīm ibn Muṣṭafá (fol. 75b).
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله الذى دلنا على معرفته بالشواهد والاعلام ... اما بعد فهذه عقود منظومة من سنن سيد المرسلين وامام المتقين منتقدة من كتب الائمة المهتدين من علماء الدين ...
• Colophon: تمت الكتاب الشريف بعون الله الملك اللطيف عن يد ابراهيم بن مصطفى عفى عنها سنة خمس وخمسين ومأ والف في غرا رجب المبارك الشرف

Binding note

Later type II (with flap) binding in brown leather and paper. Modern flap repairs.

Language note

Arabic;

Script

Fārisī.

Provenance

Seal impression (fol. Ia). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1694.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

Other title(s)

• Kitāb Shirʻat al-Islām
• كتاب شرعة الاسلام

OCLC

1340422414

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