Item Summary

A ʻʻWhoʼs Whoʼʼ of the Ḥanafite shaykhs, arranged alphabetically, and giving their names, genealogies and titles together with the 99 names of God, the genealogy of the Prophet and the virtues of Abū Ḥanīfah.

Descriptive Information

Title
الجواهر المضيئة في طبقات الحنفية.
Transliterated Title
al-Jawāhir al-muḍīʼah fī ṭabaqāt al-Ḥanafīyah.
Call Number
Oversize Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 201Hq
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcdr26z929r
Publisher
8 Shaʻbān 1274 [March 24, 1858]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1858
Format
Manuscript
Extent
xviii, 206 leaves : paper ; 320 x 210 (237 x 127) mm bound to 318 x 216 mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 689.
Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), II, p. 648.
Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 10020/1.
Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, V, p. 42.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from preface (fol. 3a).
Index of all the names mentioned in the text (fol. i b-xviii b). After the colophon is what is evidently the colophon of the copy from which MS was made. It is dated 871 [1466] and was transcribed by Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad Sibṭ al-Nuwayrī. The author is dependent on Quṭb al-Dīn al-Ḥalabī, 735 [1334/5] and al-Bukhārī 194-256 [810-870].
Collation: Paper ; fol. i + xviii + 206 + i ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 27 lines per page ; frame-ruled in red.
Description: Rubricated ; some vowel signs ; watermarks (shield with a face-in-the-moon, roman-alphabet letters "AG") ; MS in excellent condition.
Origin: According to colophon copy completed Wednesday 8 Shaʻbān 1274 by Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Jazāyirī (fol. 206b).
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه نستعين الحمد والعظمة والکبريا لمن له الاسماء الحسنى الحي الدائم الباقي الذي لا بيبد ولا يغانا ... اما بعد فقد قال الله العظيم في كتابه الكريم الا بذكر الله تطمين القلوب قال جماعة من السلف هو ذكر اصحابه ...
Colophon: تمت هذه النسخة المبارکة في يوم الاربعاء المبارك لثمان بيقين من شعبان المبارك سنة 1274 على يد الفقير الحقير احمد بن محمد الجزايري ذي التقصير غفر الله له ولوالديه ولمشايخه وللمسلمين اجمعين والحمد لله رب العالمين وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد واله وصحبه وسلم
Binding Note
Contemporaneous? type II (with flap) binding in red leather. Blind-stamped mandorla with pendants and wide blind-tooled frame on covers. Similar decoration on flap. Multi-colored endbands.

Discovery Information

Subject
Hanafites—Biography—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Blind tooled bindings
Headbands
Watermarks

Physical Characteristics

File Count
464

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

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