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Subject(s)

• Maḥallī, Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad 1389-1459—Badr al-ṭāliʻ fī ḥall Jamʻ al-jawāmiʻ [Browse]
• Subkī, Tāj al-Dīn ʻAbd al-Wahhāb ibn ʻAlī approximately 1327-1370—Jamʻ al-jawāmiʻ fī al-uṣūl [Browse]
• Islamic law—Interpretation and construction—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Shafiites—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Scribe

• Nathīnī, Muḥibb al-Dīn ibn Muḥammad, active 16th century [Browse]

Related name

• نثيني، محب الدين بن محمد، active 16th century [Browse]
• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 817H [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Autographs [Browse]
• Blind tooled bindings [Browse]
• Watermarks (Paper) [Browse]
• Sprinkled papers (Paper) [Browse]

Summary note

A gloss on al-Badr al-Ṭāliʻ fī ḥall Jamʻ al-Jawāmiʻ.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from title page (fol. 1a).
• A few marginal notes.
• Collation: Paper ; fol. 147 ; catchwords ; partial foliation in ink using Hindu-Arabic numerals ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 31 lines per page.
• Description: Text in red and commentary in black ; watermarks (animal?) ; MS in good condition.
• Origin: According to colophon copied end of Jumādá al-Ākhir 998 by Muḥibb al-Dīn ibn Muḥammad al-Nathīnī? al-Mālikī (fol. 146b).
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم اللهم يسر واعن واختم بخير ياكريم قال الفقير محمد بن ابي شريف المقدسي ... واقول لما کان کتاب جمع الجوامع ...
• Colophon: تم الکتاب بحمد الله وعونه وحسن توفيقه على يد العبد الفقير الى الله تعالى محب الدين بن العبد الفقير الى الله تعالى محمد النبتيتي المالکي غفر الله له ولوالديه ولجميع المسلمين امين. بتاريخ اواخر شهر جمادى الاخر سنة ثمان وتسعين وتسعمائة والحمد لله وحده

Binding note

Later type II (with flap) binding in red leather. Blind stamped mandorla with pendants and cornerpiece designs. Decorative blind-tooled edging. Gold-sprinkled orange paper pastedowns. Flap and lower cover detached.

Provenance

Ownership signatures: Aḥmad ibn Nāṣir al-Dīn ibn ʻAlī al-Biqāʻī; Muḥammad ibn Taqī al-Dīn al-Zahīrī (crossed out); Zayn al-Qādir ibn ʻAlawī Ḥasan (fol. 1a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1812.
• Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), II, p. 611.
• Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, II, p. 247.
• Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 4404.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

1340424537

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