Item Summary

A genealogical history of the family of Bā Qushayr.

Descriptive Information

Title
كتاب الفتوحات المكية في تراجم السادة الائمة القشيرية / تأليف [مح]مد بن سعد بن [..]مد با قشير.
Transliterated Title
Kitāb al-Futūḥāt al-Makkīyah fī tarājim al-sādah al-aʼimmah al-Qushayrīyah / taʼlīf [Muḥa]mmad ibn Saʻd ibn [..]mid Bā Qushayr.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 208H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dc4t64gx996
Language
Arabic
Format
Manuscript
Extent
111 leaves : paper ; 203 x 155 (160 x 105) mm. bound to 216 x 150 mm.
Provenance
Title page has the ownership signature of Aḥmad ibn ʻAbd Allāh al-Jaʻfarī. Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Brockelmann, C. GAL, II, 535.
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 709.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Collation: Paper ; fol. 111 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Description: Rubricated ; vowel signs ; MS in fair condition.
Layout: 20-24 lines per page.
Marginal notes. The first four folios are by a later hand. Incomplete at the end. Title page has a statement about copies of the MS and their scribes.
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
Ending: والجمع بالاخوان في السلامة
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم. رب يسر ولا تعسر يا معين
Binding Note
Later type III (without flap) binding in red leather and paper.

Discovery Information

Subject
Bā Qushayr family—Genealogy—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Muslims—Genealogy—Early works to 1800
Autographs

Physical Characteristics

File Count
230

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/42402d02-ac28-4d8c-9ea0-9fd4a9f46519/manifest