Details

Subject(s)

• Prayer—Islam—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Scribe

• ʻUmarī, ʻĀshūr ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān, active 13th century [Browse]

Related name

• عمري، عاشور بن عبد الرحمن، active 13th century [Browse]
• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 1109H [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Certificates [Browse]
• Autographs [Browse]

Summary note

A work on the time of the middle prayer, whether it is to be said at day-break or in midafternoon.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from title page (fol. 1a).
• Marginal notes and glosses. After the colophon are three ijāzahs. Lower pastedown labeled "26".
• Collation: Paper ; fol. 25 ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 27 lines per page.
• Description: MS in fair condition.
• Origin: According to colophon copy completed Tuesday 11 Jumādá al-Ūlá 694 by ʻĀshūr ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abī al-Fatḥ al-ʻUmarī (fol. 24b).
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم قرات على الشيخ الامام العالم ... الحمد لله الذي بصرنا من العماية وصيرنا من اهذا الدوانه والرداية ...
• Colophon: علقه الفقيرالى الله المحتاج الى عفوه ومغفرته عاشور بن عبد الرحمن بن ابي الفتح العمري من النسخة المکتتبة بخط المولف الشيخ الامام العلامة المحدث الحافظ شرف الدين ابي محمد عبد المؤمن بن خلف بن ابي الحسن بن شرف بن الخضر بن موسى التوني الاصل والمولد الدمياطي المنشأ نفع الله به. في اوقات اخرها يوم الثلثاء حادي عشر جمادى الاولى عام اربعة وتسعين وستمائة بمصربالمدرسة المالکية المجاورة لجامع مصرالمحروسة وهو يسأل ان ينفع به مصنفه وکاتبه وقارئة والناظر فيه. آمين

Binding note

Later quarter-bound type III (without flap) binding in red leather and yellow paper.

Provenance

Ownership signatures: Ibrāhīm ibn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad known as Ibn Luṭf Allāh; ʻAbd al-Raḥīm ibn Ḥusná[?] al-ʻIrāqī; Maḥmūd ibn Ismāʻīl ... dated 767 (fol. 1a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1952.
• Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), V, p. 216.
• Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, I, p. 388.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

Other title(s)

كشف المغطى

Title from label on spine

• Kashf al-mughaṭṭá

OCLC

1340425855

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