Details

Subject(s)

• Arabic language—Grammar—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Future life—Islam—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Hadith—Texts—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Paradise—Islam—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.1011H [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Blind tooled bindings [Browse]
• Autographs [Browse]

Contains

• Ibn Ṭūlūn, Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī, 1475-1546. Laṭāʼif al-minnah fī muntazahāt al-jannah. [Browse]
• ابن طولون، شمس الدين محمد بن علي، 1475-1546. لطائف المنة في منتزهات الجنة. [Browse]

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from title page (fol. 1a).
• Collation: Paper ; fol. 107 ; catchwords ; fols. 19-107 foliated in ink as 2-90 using Hindu-Arabic numerals ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 23 lines per page.
• Description: Overlining in red ; MS in fair condition.
• Origin: Probably from XVIIth century.
• Incipit: [لطايف المنة] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله علي نعمد؟ الكافيه ... وبعد فهذا تعليق سميته لطايف المنه في منتزهات الجنه -- [traditions] ... لكل مسلم وانا -- [grammar] ... الذي نحن الناس فقال عبد العزيز لكاتبه
• Explicit: [لطايف المنة] ولا حول ولا قوة الا بالله ... الا -- [traditions] وقد باذ لك ما ذكرنا امر الحديث انتهى -- [grammar] ويكتب الموكل بالنون الخفيفة

Binding note

Later type II (with flap) binding in brown leather. Cross-hatched blind-tooling across the covers. Blind-stamped design with blind-tooled edging on flap. Spine and flap connectors both repaired. Flap is not original to covers.

Contents

• 1. fol. 1a-10a: Laṭāyif al-minnah fī muntazahāt al-jannah / taʼlīf Muḥammad ibn Ṭūlūn. A treatise describing the beauties of the world to come based on the Koran and tradition. On folio 1a it is stated that this is an autograph copy. Evidently some folios are missing.
• 2. fol. 11a-:17a: [Fragment of a collection of traditions]. The name of al-Ṭabarānī [?]appears on the first folio.
• 3. fol. 19a-107b: [Detailed treatise on grammar]. Incomplete at the beginning and the end.

Provenance

Ownership signature: Muḥammad in Muḥamad al-.. al-ʻĀmirī (fol. 2a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, A.D. 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 2095.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

1340424301

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