Author
Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 141H
Publication Date
1600
Publication Place
-
[between 1600 and 1899]
Subject
Arabic literature—Early works to 1800, Islamic ethics—Early works to 1800, Timekeeping—Early works to 1800, Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton, Poetry, scientific illustrations (images), Watermarks (Paper)
Type
kitap
Language
Arabic
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
Yes
Pages Count
231
Library
Princeton University Library
Library Asset ID
99116506883506421
Record ID
dcbz60d724s
Library Location
Special Collections Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 141H
Date
01-01-1600 T00:00:00 AH/12-31-1899 T:KHZ:KHZZ — 1600-1899
Notes
Collection consisting of works named, Mukhtaṣar Sirāj al-tawḥīd al-bāhij al-nūn and Kitāb al-Ādāb, together with numerous extracts. | Ms. codex., Title from title page (fol. 7a)., Marginal glosses., Collection: Paper ; fol. 231; catchwords ; folios 8-84 labeled 2-77 in ink using Hindu-Arabic numerals; folios 155-231 labeled 2-78 in ink using Hindu-Arabic numerals; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals., Layout: 15-19 lines per page., Description: Headings in black, red, yellow and blue-green ; some vowel signs; watermarks (anchor; crown-star-crescent; countermark initials; three crescents) ; MS in fair condition. MS is rare., Origin: [Kitāb Mukhtaṣar Sirāj al-tawḥīd] Copied Thursday 27 Shaʻbān 1041 (fol. 84b)., Incipit: [Summary of Siraj] In the name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful, said the Sheikh, the jurist, the Imam, who knows God Almighty, Abdullah bin Asaad Al-Yafi’i Al-Shafi’i -- [A collection of myths And [the Book of Etiquette] in the name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. Praise be to God, Lord of the Worlds, and may his blessings be upon the Master of Messengers... And then, the kindest speech is bestowed and most honorable in place, Colophon: [Summary of Siraj] The book was completed with the help of the Most Gracious Al-Wahab. The call to prayer for noon on the blessed Thursday, the twenty-seventh of the holy month of Shaban, one of the months of forty-one and a thousand years from the Prophet’s migration. The best prayers and peace be upon its author. There is no power nor strength except in God, the Most High, the Great -- [A collection of myths and poems] in Safsaf Nahushham 1. fol. 1a-6b: [Fawāʻid] Includes a qaṣīdah by Muḥammad ibn Jābir al-Andulusī; verses of poetry by al-Zamakhsharī, al-Maʻarī, al-Sayyid ʻAlī and others; Quotations including one attributed to Kaʻb al-Aḥbār., 2. fol. 7a-84b: Kitāb Mukhtaṣar Sirāj al-tawḥīd al-bāhij al-nūn / lil-Imām Abī ʻAbd Allāh ibn Asʻad al-Yāfiʻī al-Yamanī. A book designed to aid people to determine the times and seasons of prayer, fasting and the variations in the length of days and nights. Includes diagram on fol. 36b., 3. fol. 85a-91a: [Excerpts from tradition], 4. fol. 91a-93a: Hādhā al-Asmā al-Ḥusná. The ninety-nine names of God., 5. fol. 94a-146b: [Majmūʻat khurāfāt wa-ashʻār]. A collection of ancient fables and poems of South Arabian origin. Incomplete at the beginning., 6. fol. 147b-154a: [Fawāʻid] Miscellaneous additions including: Bāb al-Dukhūl ʻalá al-salāṭīn, selections by al-Imām al-Shāfiʻī, verses of poetry by Nashwān al-Ḥimyarī, Ibn Hānī al-Maʻarrī, Manṣūr ibn Ismāʻīl al-Yamanī and others. Folio 154a overwritten., 7. fol. 154b-231b: Kitāb al-Ādāb. An anthology in five parts: (1) wisdom sayings in prose, (2) short selections, (3) wisdom sayings in verse, (4) proverbs and (5) miracle verses. Incomplete at the end. | Later type III (without flap) binding in brown leather and block-stamped paper. Upper cover is damaged revealing re-used manuscript pages used in the cover. | Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900. | Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 767, 205, 738., Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 5826., Catalogus codicum arabicorum Bibliothecae Academiae Lugduno-Batavae, 478.
İnternette mevcut
arks.princeton.edu
Koleksiyonlar
Middle East Manuscripts, Princeton Digital Library of Islamic Manuscripts
Bağışlayan
Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961
