Item Summary

A compendium of the personal characteristics, habits and the way of life of the Prophet based on the ḥadīth.

Descriptive Information

Title
كتاب الشمايل في الاحاديث النبوية / تأليف ابي عيسى محمد بن عيسى بن سورة الترمذي.
Transliterated Title
Kitāb al-Shamāyil fī al-aḥādīth al-Nabawīyah / taʼlīf Abī ʻĪsá Muḥammad ibn ʻĪsá ibn Sawrah al-Tirmidhī.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 740H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dc6d5707638
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1279
Extent
37 leaves : paper ; 267 x 181 (215 x 142) mm bound to 267 x 190 mm.
Provenance
Ownership signature of Sulaymān ... (fol. 1a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, A.D. 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 630.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
Marginal notes and glosses. On the title page is a note that the copy was made for the library of a distinguished prince. Reading certificates dated 22 Shaʻbān 1270 (fol. 1a), Rabīʻ al-Ākhirah 8?1 (fol. 37b). Samʻ certificate dated 16 Shawwāl 958 (fol. 37b).
Collation: Paper ; fol. 37 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 25 lines per page ; frame-ruled in red.
Description: Rubricated ; vowel signs ; MS in good condition.
Origin: According to colophon copied 13 Ṣafar 678 by by Muḥammad ibn Abī Bakr ibn Aḥmad/Ḥamad ibn Abī Bakr ... al-Lakhmī al-Mundhirī al-Ghunaymī of Bilbīs and Muḥyī al-Dīn ʻAbd al-Qādir al-Baghdādī (fol. 37b).
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه النستعين قال الشيخ الامام العالم العلامة الزاهد المحقق المدقق ابو عيسى محمد بن عيسى بن سوره الحافظ الترمذي ...
Colophon: وكان الفراغ من سبحه في ثالث عشر شهر صفر المبارك عام ثمان وسبعين وستميئة احسن الله عافيها محمد واله عليه افضل للصلوه والسلام م
Binding Note
Later type II (with flap) binding in red leather and orange paper with block-stamped design. Blue-green marbled paper pastedowns. Endbands.

Physical Characteristics

File Count
85

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/056ef924-9f92-44ae-8ba1-d264766911cd/manifest