Item Summary

A "Whoʼs Who" of the Companions of the Prophet, giving their names, genealogies and outstanding events in their lives. It is arranged alphabetically, and the last part is devoted to women Companions.

Descriptive Information

Title
هذا الاستيعاب في معرفة الاصحاب / لابن عبد البر.
Transliterated Title
Hādhā al-Istīʻāb fī maʻrifat al-aṣḥāb / li-Ibn ʻAbd al-Barr.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 195H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcb5645236h
Language
Arabic
Format
Manuscript
Extent
318 leaves : paper ; 270 x 193 (195 x 127) mm bound to 269 x 197 mm.
Provenance
Title page has a seal impression and ownership signatures: Muḥammad ibn al-Shaykh Muḥammad al-ʻAyyān al-Kaḥḥāl dated 1231, the obscured signature of Muḥammad Bāqir, Muḥammad ʻAlī ibn [Yaḥyá?] Mīrzā [?] with his seal impression, and another seal impression. The folio following the colophon (fol. 318b) has two seal impressions. Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Catálogo de los manuscritos árabes existentes en la Biblioteca Nacional de Madrid, 511, 527.
Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum orientalium (1846), 1625/4.
Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, I, p. 225.
Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), I, p. 276/7.
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 673.
Rieu, Supplement of the catalogue of the Arabic Mss, 623.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Collation: Paper ; fol. 318 + i ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Decoration: Illuminated headpiece in gold, blue and red (fol. 3b). Text area on fol. 3b colored light brown. Fol. 3b and 4a frame-ruled in gold and red. Gilt floral decoration on edges of text block.
Description: Rubricated ; MS in fair condition with considerable staining.
Layout: 29 lines per page.
Marginal notes by later hands. Folio before title page records the death of the owner's father in 1221.
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 3a).
Colophon: قد وقع الفراغ. اقل عباد الله [الفقير] الى رحمة الله الملك المنان الشيخ جمال الدين حافظ بن [الـ]شيخ عبد الملك الهندي الحنفي مذهبا السني عقيدة
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم قال الفقيه ابو عمر يوسف بن عبد الله ... اما بعد فان اولي ما نظر فيه الطالب وعنى به الراغب بعد كتاب الله عز وجل ...
Binding Note
Type II (with flap) binding in brown leather and green embossed paper. Blind-stamped mandorla with pendants on covers. Multi-colored endbands. Violet paper pastedowns and flyleaves.

Discovery Information

Subject
Muḥammad Prophet -632—Friends and associates—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
headpieces (layout features)
illuminated manuscripts
Blind tooled bindings
Headbands
Stamps
Embossed papers

Physical Characteristics

File Count
652

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/cfec680e-1169-475d-b0f3-90b5f64e8115/manifest