Item Summary

Vol. Ill of Wafayāt al-Aʻyān, beginning with the life of Ibn Sukkarah and ending with that of Abū al-Faḍl Yūnus al-Irbilī. The Cairo edition includes the life of ibn Musāʻid al-Shaybānī (vol. Ill, p. 552), which is not found in this MS.

Descriptive Information

Title
وفيات الاعيان.
Transliterated Title
Wafayāt al-aʻyān.
Call Number
Oversize Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 30Lq
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcrv043619h
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1656
Extent
408 leaves : paper ; 297 x 175 (200 x 110) mm bound to 296 x 180 mm.
Provenance
Ownership statement, seal impression of Maḥmūd ʻAlī al-Dashtī; and another seal impression (fol. 2a); signature and seal impression of Ḥusayn ibn Aḥmad ibn Ḥaydar al-Ḥasanī al-Ḥusaynī (fol. 408b). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1904.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 679.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from colophon (fol. 408a).
Label on spine: "MSS No. 1005". Insert.
Collation: Paper ; fol. 408 ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 23-25 lines per page.
Description: Rubricated ; overlining and other use of red ; MS in good condition.
Origin: According to colophon copy completed 14 Ṣafar 1067 by Muḥammad Bāqir ibn ʻAbd Allāh, known as al-Muṭawwal (fol. 408a).
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه ثقتى ابو الحسن محمد بن عبد الله بن محمد المعروف بابن سكرة الهاشمى البغدادي ...
Colophon: وكان الفراغ من وفاية وفيات الاعيان بعون الملك المنان فى يوم الرابع والعشر من شهر صفر سنه سبع وستين بعد الالف على يد كاتبه العبد الفقير الراجى محمد باقر بن عبد الله الشهير بالمطول غفر الله له ولوالديه ولقاديه والمسلمين اجمعين بحق محمد وآله الطاهرين
Binding Note
Later type III (without flap) binding in red leather. Gold-tooled edging. Yellow paper pastedowns. Multi-colored endbands.

Physical Characteristics

File Count
826

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/5d03ea31-673e-460b-8dc2-ca7f20dfb65b/manifest