Item Summary

A book containing stories about the creation of Adam and Eve, Noah, the flood, Jesus, the Prophet and others. Followed by a collection of traditions on religious and moral matters, incomplete at the end.

Descriptive Information

Title
كتاب فيه خلق آدم وحوى ... [الخ.]
Transliterated Title
Kitāb fīhi khalq Ādam wa-Ḥawwá ... [etc.]
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 272H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcks65hp447
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1000-1644
Extent
307 leaves : paper ; 211 x 154 (160 x 115) mm. bound to 207 x 160 mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 744, 1426.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Contents
1. fol. 1a-116a: Kitāb fīhi khalq Ādam wa-Ḥawwá.
2. fol. 116a-307b: Kitāb al-Jawāhir fī al-ḥadīth.
Notes
A few marginal note and glosses. Additions on upper and lower pastedowns include a story about the Prophet, a record of the birth of Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Khaṭīb Yāsīn on 24 Shawwāl 1053 [January 5, 1644] and that of his sister Fāṭimah, and a comment about the book.
Collation: Paper ; fol. 307 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Description: Rubricated ; vowel signs ; MS in fair condition but several folios are worm-eaten and mended.
In Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), II, p. 639 is a reference to a work entitled Jawāhir al-aḥādīth by Abū ʻAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Iqlīdī al-Fārisī.
Layout: 14 lines per page.
Ms. codex.
Title from heading (fol. 1a).
Colophon: [كبات فيه خلق] فاقتلهم واحدا بعد واحد ولم يلحق بها احد -- [الجواهر] تم کتاب الجواهر بمن الله وکرمه ونسأل الله العظيم بجاه سيد المرسلين ان يغفر لکاتبه ولمن
Incipit: [كبات فيه خلق] بسم الله ... الحمد لله الذي خلق الانسان من الطين -- [الجواهر] بسم الله ... الحمد لله الذي جعل الصلاة على نبيه المختار
Binding Note
Contemporaneous? type III (without flap) binding in dark brown leather and paper. Badly worn.

Physical Characteristics

File Count
602

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/21d08792-e10f-4cd2-a124-05d695fbd5a9/manifest