Details

Subject(s)

• Tobacco—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Smoking (Islamic law)—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Related name

Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 955Hq [Browse]

Donor

Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Autographs [Browse]
• Watermarks [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• manuscripts (documents) [Browse]

Summary note

A treatise on the tobacco plant, its characteristics and benefits and its status in Muslim law.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from title page (fol. 1a).
• Marginal notes and glosses. Inscriptions on title page. According to the ending, composed in 1191/1777.
• Collation: Paper ; fol. 14 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 17 lines per page ; ruled.
• Description: Rubricated ; watermarks (shield with a face-in-the-moon, roman-alphabet letters "AG") ; MS in fair condition.
• Origin: According to colophon copy completed 1293 by ʻĪsá Muḥammad (fol. 14b).
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله ذي الفضل والاسان ... اما بعد فهذه نبذة صغيرة التمس مني تأليفها بعض الاخوان فيما يتعلق بشجرة الدخان ...
• Colophon: م. على يد کاتبها الفقيرالى الله تعالى عيسى محمد عفي عنه آمين. سنة 1293

Binding note

Unbound.

Provenance

Ownership signature: Ramaḍān (fol. 1a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1858.
• Jabartī, ʻAjāʼib al- Āthār (1297 AH), II, p. 204.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

1340421904

Original language

• هدية الاخوان في شجرة الدخان / محمد مرتضى الحسيني.
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله ذي الفضل والاسان ... اما بعد فهذه نبذة صغيرة التمس مني تأليفها بعض الاخوان فيما يتعلق بشجرة الدخان ...
• Colophon: م. على يد کاتبها الفقيرالى الله تعالى عيسى محمد عفي عنه آمين. سنة 1293

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