Item Summary

An abridgment of Badhl al-māʻūn fī akhbār al-ṭāʻūn, a treatise on traditions relating to plague by Ibn Ḥajar al-ʻAsqalānī.

Descriptive Information

Title
كتاب ما رواه الواعون في اخبار الطاعون / تأليف جلال الدين عبد الرحمن السيوطي.
Transliterated Title
Kitāb Mā rawāhu al-wāʻūn fī akhbār al-ṭāʻūn / taʼlīf Jalāl al-Dīn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān al-Suyūṭī.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 768H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dc8910k5886
Publisher
17 Dhū al-Qaʻdah 1096 [October 15, 1685?]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1685
Format
Manuscript
Extent
62 leaves : paper ; 210 x 154 (156 x 80) mm bound to 205 x 160 mm.
Provenance
On title page is the obscured ownership signature of Miḥḍār ibn ʻAbd Allāh ibn al-Sayyid Muḥammad al-Saqqāf dated 1279. Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1423.
Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), II, p. 41, V, p. 352.
Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, VII, pp. 185, 589.
Rieu, Supplement of the catalogue of the Arabic Mss, 160.
Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 1429/30.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
A few marginal notes and glosses. Several fawāʻid on folios 61a-62b on the plague and defending against it. Collation note (fol. 60b).
Collation: Paper ; fol. 62 ; catchwords ; quires signed: 2-6 ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 19 lines per page.
Description: Headings in black and red, some black headings are gold-speckled ; watermarks (crown-star-crescent) ; MS in good condition.
Origin: According to colophon copied Tuesday 17 Dhū al-Qaʻdah 1096 (fol. 60b).
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحمن الرحيم وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد ... الحمد لله مقدر الارزاق والاجال ولصلاة والسلام على سيدنا محمد والصحبه والال فهذا فهذا جز انتخبت فيه ما ورد في اخبار الطاعون اختصرته من بذل الماعون لشيخ الاسلام ابن حجر ...
Colophon: وافق اخرالکتاب المبارك يوم الثلاثاء المبارك سابع عشر ذي القعدة الحرام سنة 1096 وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد وعلى اله وصحبه وسلم
Binding Note
Re-used type II (with flap) binding in brown leather. Blind-stamped mandorla and blind-tooled edging on covers. Similar decoration on flap. Marbled paper pastedowns. Cover repair in red leather. Not currently sewn. Binding clearly sized for a different text.

Discovery Information

Subject
Hadith—Texts—Early works to 1800
Plague—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Autographs
Blind tooled bindings
Watermarks

Physical Characteristics

File Count
136

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

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