Details

Subject(s)

• Imāmʹzādah, Muḥammad ibn Abī Bakr 1097 or 1098-1177 or 1178—Shirʻat al-Islām [Browse]
• Islamic law—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. 838H [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Gold tooled bindings [Browse]
• Watermarks (Paper) [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• headpieces (layout features) [Browse]
• illuminated manuscripts [Browse]

Summary note

A commentary on Shirʻat al-Islām.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title supplied by cataloger.
• A few marginal notes and glosses. Earlier foliation in ink indicates 9 missing folios before folio 3, and 121 missing before folio 4. Inscription, extract from Tafsīr al-ʻuyūn al-ṣughrá, and table of contents on preliminary leaves. Illegible title on lower edge of text block.
• Collation: Paper ; fol. i + (2) + i + 208 (begins with number 3) ; foliation in ink using Hindu-Arabic numerals ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 23 lines per page ; frame-ruled in red.
• Description: Text commented upon is overlined in red ; watermarks (unidentified; roman-alphabet letters "TR"; countermark roman-alphabet initials with trefoil) ; MS in good condition.
• Decoration: Illuminated headpiece of gold, red, blue, white and violet (fol. 2b). Opening page is frame-ruled in gold and has gold circle dividers in the text.
• Origin: According to colophon copy completed beginning of Jumādá al-Ūlá 1145 in Constantinople by Ibrāhīm Muṣṭafā (fol. 207b).
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم حمدا لمن من عباده نعمة الاسلام وجعله شرعة ومناجا ... وبعد فيقول العبد الضعيف والمذنب اللهيف المحتاج الى رحمة ربه اللطيف يعقوب بن سيدى على عفا عنهما الملك الاعلى قد اطبق سلاطين العلماء اساطين الحكما ...
• Colophon: قد تم هذا الکتاب بعون الملك الوهاب عن يد العبد الضعيف ابرهيم مصطفا [مصطفى] في بلاد القسطنطنية في اوائل جمادى الاولى لسنة خمس واربعين ومائة والف سنة 1145

Binding note

Later type III (with flap) binding in brown leather. Gold-stamped and inlaid red leather mandorla and gold-tooled edging. Flap missing.

Provenance

Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1696.
• Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), IV, pp. 42/3; VI, pp. 3/4.
• Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 1734/5.
• Catalogue des manuscrits arabes de la Bibliothèque Nationale, 1248¹, 1249¹.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

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