Item Summary

Persian commentary on the hadith collection Mishkāt al-maṣābīḥ. Incomplete at beginning and ending with internal gaps. Bound with a short, unidentified treatise on Arabic grammar on leaves 213a-215b.

Descriptive Information

Title
[Commentary on Mishkāt al-maṣābīḥ].
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 384L
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dc41687w98p
Language
Persian
Extent
296 leaves : paper ; 242 x 175 (178-194 x 115-121) mm bound to 250 x 178 mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1904, from the books of Amīn ibn Ḥasan al-Ḥulwānī al-Madanī al-Ḥanafī (Medina).
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. composite codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Label on upper cover: "345 KE". Folios 223-224 bound upside-down.
Collation: Paper ; fol. i (later paper) + 296 + i (later paper) ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 25 lines per page.
Description: Written in different hands; MS in good condition.
Binding Note
Later quarter-bound type III (without flap) binding in dark brown leather and dark paper. Endbands.

Physical Characteristics

File Count
552

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/810394ef-5d19-4c78-9787-e8d8cd89714c/manifest