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A treatise on lawful religious and social conduct of Muslims.
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Item Summary
A treatise on lawful religious and social conduct of Muslims.
Descriptive Information
- Title
- تبيين المحارم.
- Transliterated Title
- Tabyīn al-maḥārim.
- Call Number
- Oversize Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 913Hq
- Identifier
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcr207v235v
- Publisher
- [1720]
- Language
- Arabic
- Date Created
- 1720
- Format
- Manuscript
- Extent
- i, 308 leaves : paper ; 305 x 192 (208 x 122) mm bound to 305 x 198 mm.
- Provenance
- Acquired by Robert Garrett from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
- Source Acquisition
- Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
- References
- Hitti, P. Garrett coll., 927.
- Brockelmann, C. GAL, II (507), SII (452, 524).
- Rights Statement
- Copyright Not Evaluated
- Notes
- Ms. codex.
- Title from colophon on fol. 307a.
- Fol. ib-2a have a table of contents outlined in red and filled in black and red.
- Layout: 23 lines per page ; frame-ruled in red.
- Description: Written in a medium script in black ink with use of red for rubrication. Foliation in pencil in Western numerals, starts after one fol (fol. i) and skips one fol. between 3 and 4 (fol. 3i). Catchwords on the verso of each leaf. Glazed European paper.
- Decoration: Illuminated headpiece in gold, blue, red and white (fol. 3b). Opening spread frame-ruled in gold and black (fol. 3b-4a).
- Origin: Copied by İbrahim el-Mehmedî, known as the kâtip of Parmaksız Ahmet, Kethüda-yi Müstahfızân, and completed on the 7th of Muḥarram 1133 (1720) -- colophon (fol. 307a).
- Incipit: الحمد لله انزل علينا كتاباً احكمت آياته ثم فصلت من لدنه تفصيلا ونور به قلوبنا وشرح به صدورنا وعلمنا ما فيه من الوعد ... اما بعد اعلموا معاشر المؤمنين اتاكم الله تعالي سؤلكم
- Explicit: الهم نسئلك ان تغفر لنا ولوالدينا ولاستاذينا ولمشايخنا وان تغفر لمن قرأه او كتبه او قرا عليه اللهم اجعل كتابنا هذا حجة لنا يوم القيامة ولا تجعله حجة علينا وصلي الله ... وسلم تسليماً
- Binding Note
- Type II (with flap) binding in red leather over pasteboard. Gold-stamped mandorla with small rosetta stamps and fillets as pendants and gold-tooled decorative edging on covers. Similar decoration on flap. Light orange paper pastedowns. Yellow paper flyleaf. Spine and flap fore-edge flap repaired in red leather.
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Physical Characteristics
- File Count
- 633
Institutional Information
- Collection
- Princeton’s Holdings of the al-Madani Library
- Manuscripts of the Islamic World
- IIIF Manifest URL
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https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/d1ba22ff-2563-4588-8860-222a2c359892/manifest