Item Summary

Manuscript appears to be two works bound together with pages interspersed and out of correct order.

Descriptive Information

Title
[رسالة في ذم الدنيا] ... [الخ.]
Transliterated Title
[Risālah fī dhamm al-dunyā] ... [etc.]
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 357L
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dc4b29bk323
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1400-1799
Format
Manuscript
Extent
101 leaves : paper ; 215-228 x 150-162 (160 x 110) mm bound to 238 x 173 mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1904, from the books of Amīn ibn Ḥasan al-Ḥulwānī al-Madanī al-Ḥanafī (Medina).
Source Acquisition
Gift; Robert Garrett (Class of 1897), 1942.
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Contents
1. fol.1a-3b, 8a-10b, 98a-100b: [Risālah fī dhamm al-dunyā]. Collection of hadith with chain of transmission; believed to be from Ibn Abī al-Dunyā's work. Incomplete at beginning.
2. fol. 4a-7b, 11a-97b, 101a-101b: [Tafsīr al-Qurʼān] Incomplete commentary on Sūrahs 1-3.
Notes
Ms. composite codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Label on upper cover: "KE 277".
Collation: Paper ; fol. i (later paper) + 101 + i (later paper) ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 15 lines per page.
Description: Vowel signs ; MS in fair condition, some damage resulting in loss of text.
Incipit: [رسالة في ذم الدنيا] ...كنت اولى الناس بجمعه ه سمعت ابراهيم الواعظ يقول سمعت عبدالله بن محمد يقول سمعت عبد الله بن مبارك ... -- [تفسير سورة آل عمران] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم قال ابن عباس رضى الله عنه نزلت بالمدينة من ذالك قوله جل وعز الم الله لا اله الا هو الحي القيوم ... -- [تفسير سورة النساء] من ذلك قوله عز وجل باايها الناس اتقوا ربكم الذى خلقكم من نفس واحدة ...
Colophon: [رسالة في ذم الدنيا] فعدت كلا الفرجين تحسب انه مولي المخافة وامامها
Binding Note
Later type III (without flap) binding in dark and light red leather with a brown leather spine. Blind-stamped medallion and decorative blind-tooled edging. Multi-colored endbands.

Discovery Information

Subject
Qurʼan Sūrat Āl ʻImrān—Commentaries
Qurʼan Sūrat al-Nisāʼ—Commentaries
Qurʼan Sūrat al-Baqarah—Commentaries
Islam—Doctrines
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Blind tooled bindings
Headbands

Physical Characteristics

File Count
213

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/90252bca-883a-44c7-b4df-bf218d39b442/manifest