Details

Subject(s)

• Islamic law—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Prayer—Islam—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Purity, Ritual—Islam—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. 1105H [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Watermarks [Browse]

Summary note

A book on the ordinances relating to ablution and prayer according to the Ḥanafite school.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from preface (fol. 1b).
• Marginal notes and glosses. A folio is missing between folios 20 and 21. Prayer calendar on lower pastedown (labeled "35").
• Collation: Paper ; fol. 34 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 23 lines per page ; ruled.
• Description: Rubricated ; watermarks (crown-star-crescent, countermarks roman-alphabet initials "[?]B" with trefoil) ; MS in fair condition.
• Origin: Probably from the XVIIth century.
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله رب العالمين ... ان انواع العلوم کثيرة واهم الانواع بالتحصيل مسائل الصلوة ...
• Colophon: تم الکتاب بعون الملك الوهاب

Binding note

Later half-bound type III (without flap) binding in red leather and pink paper with gilt-pressed design.

Provenance

Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1750.
• Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), VI, p. 227.
• Catalogus codicum arabicorum Bibliothecae Academiae Lugduno-Batavae, 1812.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

1405947029

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