Item Summary

The lives of eminent men who were the guardians of traditions and preserved them in memory, and of those who used the method of analogy, commencing with the Companions of the Prophet and concluding with Abū al-Faḍl Aḥmad ibn Ḥajar 773-853 [1372-1450]. It is an abridgment of the Ṭabaqāt al-ḥuffāẓ of al-Dhahabī, 748 [1347/8].

Descriptive Information

Title
[كتا]ب طبقات المحدثين [من] الحفاظ والمجتهدين / جلال الدين عبد الرحمن بن ابي بكر السيوطي.
Transliterated Title
[Kitā]b Ṭabaqāt al-muḥaddithīn [min] al-ḥuffāẓ wa-al-mujtahidīn / Jalāl al-Dīn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abī Bakr al-Suyūṭī.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 200H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcx920g668g
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1705
Extent
(1), 145, (1) leaves : paper ; 205 x 150 (153 x 105) mm. bound to 205 x 156 mm.
Provenance
Title page has a number of obliterated or partially obscured owner signatures and seal impressions including: ʻAbd al-Karīm ibn Yūsuf al-Anṣārī, and Muḥamad Khālid ... dated 1195 [1780/81]. There is also an obscured tughra. Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), IV, p. 134.
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 699.
Pertsch, Die orientalischen handschriften der Herzoglichen bibliothek zu Gotha, 1760.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Collation: Paper ; fol. (1) + 145 + (1) ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Description: Rubricated ; watermarks ; MS in fair condition but several folios are worm-eaten and some are mended, and some are loose. MS is legible despite extensive staining. MS is rare.
Layout: 25 lines per page.
Marginal notes. The number of each traditionist is written opposite his name. Kabīkaj (invocation against bookworks) on title page.
Ms. codex.
Origin: According to colophon copied Friday 29 Jumādá I 1117 by Muḥammad ibn Jābir al-Yamanī in al-Madīnah (fol. 145a-b).
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
Colophon: وکان تمام رقمه من اوله الى آخره على يد العبد الفقير الى الله تعالى محمد جابر اليمني غفر الله ذنوبه وستر عيوبه بمنه وکرمه امين. اسألك اللهم بجاه سيد الاحباب ... وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد واله وصحبه وسلم
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم ... الحمد لله الذي انعم فاجزل
Binding Note
Later type II (with flap) binding in red leather and black textured paper.

Physical Characteristics

File Count
306

Institutional Information

Collection
Princeton’s Holdings of the al-Madani Library
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/bb309639-6104-4fdb-90c1-02736d0eab9f/manifest