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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]

Related name

• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 819H [Browse]

Rare books genre

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

Summary note

A gloss on al-Badr al-ṭāliʻ fī sharḥ Jamʻ al-jawāmiʻ.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title supplied by cataloger.
• A few marginal and interlinear notes and glosses. In the first twenty folios the entries are in red.
• Collation: Paper ; fol. i + 450 ; folios 1-17 signed, remainder unsigned ; catchwords ; partial foliation in ink using Hindu-Arabic numerals ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 25 lines per page ; ruled.
• Description: Partially rubricated ; watermarks (shield with a face-in-the-moon, roman alphabet letters "AG") ; MS in good condition.
• Origin: According to colophon copy completed Saturday 12 Rajab 1281 in Makkah by Aḥmad ibn Nāfiʻ (fol. 449a).
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه ثقتي بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الکلام على البسملة شهيرلاحاجة الى الاطالة به وانما نذكر هنا تحقيق ...
• Colophon: وکان الفراغ من کتابة هذه الحاشية المبارکة نهار السبت المبارك في رجب يوم اثني عشر في شهرالله الاصم سنة 1281 اللهم اغفر لکاتبها امين

Binding note

Contemporaneous? type II (with flap) binding in red leather. Blind-stamped mandorla with pendants and blind-stamped elaborate frame on covers. Similar decoration on flap, flap connector, and spine. Cover fully lined with yellow paper with a block-pressed design in purple and black. Quires Not sewn; remanants of 2 fabric strips holdings quires together.

Provenance

Obscured ownership signature Miḥḍār ibn ʻAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad al-Saqqāf (preliminary leaf). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1814.
• Jabartī, ʻAjāʼib al- Āthār (1297 AH), II, p. 85.
• Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, II, p. 244.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

1340425391

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