Item Summary

Autograph thabat by Abū al-Yaman Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī ibn Ismaʻīl ibn ʻUmar ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān al-Miṣrī al-Qudsī (see fol. 4, l. 11-12) [b. 839/1436, see Sakhāwī, al-Daw al-lāmiʻ, vol. 8, 171], consisting of a list of books read, beginning with the Qurʼān in various readings, the Kitāb al-Taysīr by Abī ʻAmr al-Dānī, the Shāṭibīyah by Abū al-Qāsim al-Shāṭibī, etc. read with Abū al-ʻAbbās Aḥmad ibn Zayn al-Dīn Abī Bakr ... al-Qilqīlī al-Shāmī, known as al-Sikandarī, nazīl al-Jāmiʻ al-Azhar (fol. 5a) [757-857/1356-1453, see Sakhāwī, al-Daw al-lāmiʻ, vol. 1, p. 263-264], with an ijāzah, followed by two autograph attestations of this ijāzah, one from Jaʻfar ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Jaʻfar ibn Sulaymān ibn Hubayr ibn Jarīr ibn ... ibn Faḍl fāḍil al-Qarashī al-Maqarrī al-Sanhūrī al-Azharī, nazīl al-Diyār al-Miṣrīyah wa-al-Qāhirah, dated 19 Dhū al-Ḥijjah 857 (fol. 9a-10b) [ca. 810-894/1407-1489, see Sakhāwī, al-Daw al-lāmiʻ, vol. 3, p. 67-70], the other from ʻAlī ibn Yūsuf al-Jabartī (fol. 10b) [see Sakhāwī, al-Daw al-lāmiʻ, vol. 6, p. 53].

Descriptive Information

Title
[Thabat].
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 2240Y
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/d504rk397
Publisher
[Cairo?, 1453]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1453
Format
Manuscript
Extent
10 leaves : paper ; 180 x 135 (120 x 95) mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Mach, R. Yahuda, 46
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger, according to Mach, R. Yahuda.
15 lines per page. Written in medium large naskh in black ink with use of red and green ink. Light cream paper with laid and chain lines and pulp visible. The text starts on fol. 2b.
Autograph dated Wednesday 17 Dhū al-Ḥijjah 857 [Dec. 19, 1453] (fol. 9a).
Incipit: الحمد لله الذى حعل الحمد لكتابه مفتاحا ولقلوب اوليائه مصباحا ... [3أ] ... وبعد فكتاب الله جليل كريم ... [4أ] وبعد يقول العبد الفقير ... ابو اليمن محمد بن على بن اسمعيل بن عمر بن عبد الرحمن المصرى ولدا والقدسى اصلا والشافعى مذهبا ... اننى قرات من اول فاتحة الكتاب العزيز
Binding Note
Unbound.

Discovery Information

Subject
Muslim scholars—Certification—Egypt—Cairo—Jāmiʻ al-Azhar—History—15th century—Sources
Muslim scholars—Certification—History—15th century—Sources
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Qurʼan—Readings—Certification—Egypt—Cairo—Jāmiʻ al-Azhar—History—15th century—Sources
Qurʼan—Readings—Certification—History—15th century—Sources
Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī Abū al-Yaman 1436-—Books and reading

Physical Characteristics

File Count
24

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/c6f582e6-1289-4279-85c5-6a9e949eba03/manifest