Details

Subject(s)

• Islamic law—Interpretation and construction—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Shafiites—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Ghazzālī 1058-1111—Wasīṭ [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Related name

• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 871H [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Stamps (Provenance) [Browse]
• Autographs (Provenance) [Browse]

Summary note

A redaction of al-Wasīṭ al-muḥīṭ bi-aqṭār al-basīṭ, a work on the principles of Shāfiʻite jurisprudence by Abū Ḥāmid al-Ghazzālī.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from title page (fol. 1a).
• Marginal and interlinear notes and glosses. Later table of contents (fol. (i)b-(iii)b).
• Collation: Paper ; fol. (iii) + 143 + ii ; catchwords ; foliation in ink using Hindu-Arabic numerals ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 17 lines per page.
• Description: Rubricated ; vowel signs ; watermarks (later endpapers only: three crescents; shield with a face-in-the-moon) ; MS in good condition. MS is rare.
• Origin: According to colophon copy completed 26 Shaʻbān 699 by Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Karīm ibn Muḥammad (fol. 143b).
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم رب تمم وسهل الحمد لله الذى ابدع الخلق واعاد ورفع الحق واشاد ...
• Colophon:فرغ من تحريره العبد الضعيف المحتاج [الى] رحمة ربه اللطيف محمد بن عبد الکريم بن محمد اصلح الله شأنه وغفر ذنوبه ورحم لوالديه ورزقه علم ما فيه ليلة السادس والعشرين من شهر الله المعظم شعبان سنة تسع وتسعين وستمائة متع الله بما فيه جميع المستحقين برحمتك يا ارحم الراحمين

Binding note

Later type II (with flap) binding in red leather and blue and red marbled paper. Yellow paper pastedowns with block-pressed design. Not sewn. In case (208 x 163 mm).

Provenance

Ownership signatures: Ibrahīm ibn ? al-Zamzamī dated 1149; ʻAlī ibn ʻAbd Allāh al-Ḥamdīyah dated 1049; Maḥmūd ibn ʻAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad ? dated 702?; other obscured signatures and a seal impression (fol. 1a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1789.
• al-Subkī V, p. 59.
• Suyūṭī, Bughyat al-wuʻāh (1908), p. 286.
• Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), IV, p. 302.
• Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, III, p. 246.
• Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 4567/8.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

1340423013

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