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خلاصة البيان في كيفية ثبوت رمضان / لعلامة محمد الجوهري
Khulāṣat al-bayān fī kayfīyat thubūt Ramaḍān / li-ʻAllāmah Muḥammad al-Jawharī
1800-1850
A treatise on the method of determining the beginning of the month of Ramaḍān and the time to start fasting.
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- Publisher
- [between 1800 and 1850?]
- People
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- Author
- Ibn al-Jawharī, Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad, 1738 or 1739-1800 or 1801
- ابن الجوهري، محمد بن احمد، 1738 or 1739-1800 or 1801
- Related Name
- Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 951H
- Language
- Arabic
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Item Summary
A treatise on the method of determining the beginning of the month of Ramaḍān and the time to start fasting.
Descriptive Information
- Title
- خلاصة البيان في كيفية ثبوت رمضان / لعلامة محمد الجوهري
- Transliterated Title
- Khulāṣat al-bayān fī kayfīyat thubūt Ramaḍān / li-ʻAllāmah Muḥammad al-Jawharī
- Call Number
- Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 951H
- Identifier
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dc76537c85n
- Publisher
- [between 1800 and 1850?]
- Language
- Arabic
- Date Created
- 1800-1850
- Format
- Manuscript
- Extent
- 10 leaves : paper ; 218 x 160 (155 x 100) mm.
- Provenance
- Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
- Source Acquisition
- Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
- References
- Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1861.
- Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, III, p. 225.
- Rights Statement
- Copyright Not Evaluated
- Notes
- Ms. codex.
- Title from title page (fol. 1a).
- It is stated in the colophon that the work was composed 1196/1782. Three short fawāʼid on title page.
- Collation: Paper ; fol. 10 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
- Layout: 13 lines per page.
- Description: Watermarks (three crescents) ; MS in good condition.
- Origin: Probably from the early part of the XIXth century.
- Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن لارحيم وبه عوني الحمد لمن منح بوارد الامتنان وفتح مغلق نوادر التبيان ... وبعد فهذه ملحة لطيفة شريفة منيفة تتضمن كيفية ثبوت شهر الصيام ...
- Colophon: قال مؤلفه حفظه الله تعالى وکان الفراغ منها في سويعة من يوم الثلاث المبارك ثالث شهر رمضان المعظم سنة ستة وتسعين وماية والف من هجرة من له العزو الشرف صلّى الله عليه وسلم امين والحمد لله رب العالمين
- Binding Note
- Unbound.
Discovery Information
Physical Characteristics
- File Count
- 24
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/2f93141f-4350-40bc-b04e-732dad3e5d19/manifest