Item Summary

The versification of Kitāb ʻUlūm al-ḥadīth, a work on the science of tradition by Ibn al-Ṣalāḥ al-Shahrazūrī. The present work is also known as Alfīyat al-ʻIrāqī.

Descriptive Information

Title
كتاب التبصرة والتذكرة في علم الحديث / للحافظ زين الدين عبد الرحيم العراقي.
Transliterated Title
Kitāb al-Tabṣirah wa-al-tadhkirah fī ʻilm al-ḥadīth / lil-Ḥāfiẓ Zayn al-Dīn ʻAbd al-Raḥīm al-ʻIrāqī.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 787H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcw9505b72z
Publisher
[17th century?]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1600-1699
Format
Manuscript
Extent
39 leaves : paper ; 201 x 150 (140 x 90) mm bound to 203 x 156 mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1459.
Suyūṭī, Ḥusn al-muḥāḍarah (1321 AH), I, p. 168.
Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), I, p. 416.
Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 1071.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
A few marginal notes. Short fāʼidah and an inscription on the title page. On the three folios after the colophon is a short metrical treatise on algebra entitled Asmāʼ al-anwāʻ al-majhūlah wa-marātibuhā wa-usūsuhā. Title also on label on upper cover.
Collation: Paper ; fol. 39 + i ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 15 lines per page in two columns.
Description: Partially rubricated ; vowel signs ; watermarks (crown-star-crescent) ; MS in fair condition.
Origin: Probably from XVIIth century.
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه نستعين يقول راجي ربه المقتدر عبد الرحيم بن الحسين الاثري من بعد حمدا لله ذي الالاء على امتنان ...
Colophon: وافضل الصلاة والسلام * على النبي سيد الانام. تمت بحمد الله وحسن توفيقه. والصلاة والسلام على سيدنا محمد وآله وصحبه وسلم
Binding Note
Later half-bound type III (without flap) limp binding in light brown leather and paper with block-pressed design. Light green paper pastedowns.

Discovery Information

Subject
Hadith—Terminolology—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Poetry
Watermarks

Physical Characteristics

File Count
88

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/11d29e47-115d-46e5-82bc-d16c02159def/manifest