Details

Subject(s)

• Hashish—Religious aspects—Islam—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Marriage—Religious aspects—Islam—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Scribe

• Ḥanbalī, Ṭalḥah ibn Muḥammad, active 14th century [Browse]

Related name

• حنبلي، طلحة بن محمد، active 14th century [Browse]
• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 1056H [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Colored papers (Paper) [Browse]

Contains

• Ibn al-Jawzī, Abū al-Faraj ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʻAlī, approximately 1116-1201. Minhāj al-qāṣidīn. [Browse]
• ابن الجوزي، ابو الفرج عبد الرحمن بن علي، approximately 1116-1201. منهاج القاصدين. [Browse]
• Maqdisī, ʻAbd al-ʻAzīz ibn ʻAbd al-Salām. Majlis fī dhamm al-ḥashīshah. [Browse]
• مقدسي، عبد العزيز بن عبد السلام. مجلس في ذم الحشيشة. [Browse]

Summary note

A section of Minhāj al-qāṣidīn on marriage, and a treatise against the use of ḥashīsh.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from heading of first work (fol. 1a).
• A few marginal notes.
• Collation: Paper ; fol. 8 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 20 lines per page.
• Description: Overlining in red ; first and last folios on orange paper ; MS in good condition.
• Origin: According to colophon copy completed 10 Rabīʻ al-Akhir 80-? by Ṭalḥah ibn Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Abī al-ʻAlāʼ al-Ḥanbalī (fol. 8b).
• Incipit: [منهاج القاصدين] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله كتاب آداب النكاح وفيه ثلثة ابواب -- [مجلس في ذم الحشيشه] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم اخو انى ليس من العجب جاهل ...
• Colophon: [منهاج القاصدين] ... في السمآ ساخطا عليها حتى رضى عنها والله تعالى اعلم -- [مجلس في ذم الحشيشه] كتبت .. يوم الثلثآ العاشر من شهر ربيع الاخر من ؟ وثمانمايه ... على يد فقير رحمه ربه القدير طاحه بن محمد بن ابرهيم بن ابى العلا الحنبلى لطفه اللع تعالى

Binding note

Later limp covering in dark blue paper.

Contents

• 1. fol. 1a-7a: Minhāj al-qāṣidīn / Abū al-Faraj al-Jawzī. Section from a collection of religious and moral subjects which deals with marriage and is entitled Kitāb Ādāb al-nikāḥ.
• 2. fol. 7b-8b: Majlis fī dhamm al-ḥashīshah / ʻIzz al-Dīn ʻAbd al-ʻAzīz ibn ʻAbd al-Salām ibn ʻĀmir al-Maqdisī al-Shāfiʻī. A brief treatise decrying the use of ḥashīsh.

Provenance

Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 2136.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

1340425611

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