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]

Scribe

• Chalabī, Ibrāhīm, active 17th century [Browse]

Related name

• چلبي، ابراهيم، active 17th century [Browse]
• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 298L [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Watermarks [Browse]
• Blind tooled bindings [Browse]
• Autographs [Browse]
• Stamps [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• tuǧras [Browse]

Summary note

A book on the ordinances related to ablution and prayer according to the Hanafite school.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from caption (fol. 1b).
• Marginal notes. Label on upper cover: "F.F38 19/12/99". Inscriptions (pastedowns, fol. 1a). Inserts.
• Collation: Paper ; fol. 83 ; catchwords ; foliation in ink using Hindu-Arabic numerals ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 15 lines per page.
• Description: Rubricated ; watermarks (horse? in a circle) ; MS in fair condition; ink smudged but fully legible.
• Origin: According to colophon copy completed beginning of Dhū al-Ḥijjah 1018 by Ibrāhīm Chalabī, muʼadhdhin bi-Jāmʻ ʻAtīq (fol. 83b).
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله رب العالمين والعاقبة للمتقين ... اعلموا وفقكم الله تعالى وايانا ان انواع العلوم كثيرة واهم الانواع بالتحصيل مسائل الصلوة ...
• Colophon: تمت كتبه الفقير ابراهيم چلبي المؤذن بجامع عتيق فقر الله له ولوالديه تحريرا في اوايل شهر ذي الحجه من شهور سنه ثمانه عشر والف

Binding note

Later type II (with flap) binding in brown leather. Blind-stamped mandorla and blind-tooled edging on covers. Blind-tooling on flap. Binding in poor condition, repaired.

Provenance

Signatures, stamps, and tughrás, some obscured (upper pastedown, fol. 1a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1904.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1751.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

Place name(s)

Iran Shīrāz

OCLC

1340421320

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