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كتاب مباني الاخبار في شرح معاني الاثار / تأليف محمود العيني.
Kitāb Mabānī al-akhbār fī sharḥ maʻānī al-āthār / taʼlīf Maḥmūd al-ʻAynī.
1500-1599
The first volume of a commentary on Maʻānī al-āthār, a work on the obscure ideas and allusions in the traditions by Abū Jaʻfar Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Ṭaḥāwī.
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- Publisher
- [16th century?]
- People
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- Related Name
- Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 727Hq
- Language
- Arabic
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Item Summary
The first volume of a commentary on Maʻānī al-āthār, a work on the obscure ideas and allusions in the traditions by Abū Jaʻfar Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Ṭaḥāwī.
Descriptive Information
- Title
- كتاب مباني الاخبار في شرح معاني الاثار / تأليف محمود العيني.
- Transliterated Title
- Kitāb Mabānī al-akhbār fī sharḥ maʻānī al-āthār / taʼlīf Maḥmūd al-ʻAynī.
- Call Number
- Oversize Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 727Hq
- Identifier
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dckp78gv35g
- Publisher
- [16th century?]
- Language
- Arabic
- Date Created
- 1500-1599
- Format
- Manuscript
- Extent
- 222 leaves : paper ; 310 x 205 (240 x 125) mm bound to 308 x 210 mm.
- Provenance
- Acquired from Brill, Leyden, A.D. 1900.
- Source Acquisition
- Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
- References
- Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1394.
- Suyūṭī, ḥusn al-Muḥāḍarah (1321 AH), I, p. 224.
- Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), V, p. 614.
- Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, I, p. 396.
- Rights Statement
- Copyright Not Evaluated
- Notes
- Ms. codex.
- Title from title page (fol. 1a).
- A few marginal notes and glosses. Table of contents and several osbscured inscriptions on the title page (fol. 1a).
- Collation: Paper ; fol. 222 ; catchwords ; partially foliated in ink using Hindu-Arabic numerals ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
- Layout: 35 lines per page ; frame-ruled in red ; opening spread frame-ruled in gold (fol. 1b-2a).
- Description: Rubricated ; watermarks (three crescents; star) ; MS in good condition.
- Origin: Probably from the XVIth century.
- Colophon: هذا اخرما وجد من خط المؤلف من الجزء الاول من الشرح
- Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم ... الحمد لله واشكر شكرا كثيرا ... وبعد فاني لما فرغت من توشيح رجال معاني الاثآر شرعت في الشرح الذي ترحمته بمباني الاخبار ...
- Binding Note
- Later type II (with flap) binding in brown leather. Cover patched together from light brown upper cover with color-stamped mandorla outlined in gold and decorative gold-tooled edging; light brown lower cover with blind-stamped mandorla and pendants; and dark brown flap with blind-stamped design outlined in gold and gold-tooled edging. Spine and flap fore-edge of tan leather. Flap lined with red leather. Marbled paper pastedowns. Not sewn.
Physical Characteristics
- File Count
- 453
Institutional Information
- Collection
- Manuscripts of the Islamic World
- IIIF Manifest URL
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https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/e21df546-0339-453a-89de-2211e536d83e/manifest