Descriptive Information

Title

الثاني [الثالث] من طبقات الشافعية الكبرى / للعلامة تاج الدين ابي نصر عبد الوهاب بن الامام العلامة تقي الدين علي بن عبد الكافي السبكي الانصاري.

Transliterated Title

al-Thānī [al-Thālith] min Ṭabaqāt al-Shāfiʻīyah al-kubrá / lil-ʻAllāmah Tāj al-Dīn Abī Naṣr ʻAbd al-Wahhāb ibn al-Imām al-ʻallāmah Taqī al-Dīn ʻAlī ibn ʻAbd al-Kāfī al-Subkī al-Anṣārī.

Call Number

Oversize Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 565Yq

Identifier

http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/th83m193p

Publisher

[Egypt?, 1470]

Language

Arabic

Date Created

1470

Format

Manuscript

Extent

2 v. (281 + 258 leaves) : paper ; 272 x 180 (190 x 127) mm.

Provenance

Two ownership statements on vol. 2, fol. 8a and on vol. 3, fol. 5a, one signed ʻAbd Allāh Ibn Zayn al-Dīn al-Baṣrawī. Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.

Source Acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

Mach, R. Yahuda, 4671

Rights Statement

No Known Copyright

Notes

Ms. codex.

Title from title pages (vol. 2, fol. 8a and vol. 3, fol. 5a).

Vol. 2 and 3 written in medium small naskh in black ink with use of red for entries, re-inking and punctuations in verses of poetry, with 29 lines per page, on thick glazed light cream paper with laid lines visible. The paper is frame-ruled. Marginal annotations apparently by another hand.

Vol 2: Fol. 158-165 are later replacements on glazed European paper. On fol. 8a, mention of the important individuals mentioned in this vol. ("mashāhīr ahl hādhā al-juzʼ wa huwa al-thānī"). On fol. 281b, index (fihrist) of the entries in this vol. Before the first original folio (fol. 8 in the modern foliation), table of contents on glazed European paper with watermark (fol. 1b-7b). Foliation in black ink using Arabic numerals, starting with "1" on fol. 8a, the first original fol. Inscription "17" in red ink using Arabic numerals on a label pasted on the upper cover pastedown.

Vol. 3: On fol. 5a, mention of the important individuals mentioned in this vol. ("al-mashāhīr fī hādhā al-juzʼ al-thālith wa huwa al-akhīr"). Before the first original folio (fol. 5 in the modern foliation), table of contents on glazed European paper with watermark (fol. 1b-4b). Inscription on fol. 1a. Collation statement dated Cairo, 2 Jumādá al-Awwal 901 [1496] on fol. 258b, stating that this part and the ones before it were collated with an autograph manuscript, except the last part, collated with a copy made by al-Ḥāfiẓ ibn Ḥajar, on which there were annoations by his hand, reported on this copy. Foliation in black ink using Arabic numerals, starting with "2" on fol. 5a, the first original fol. Inscription "18" in red ink using Arabic numerals on a label pasted on the upper cover pastedown.

Copied by ʻAbd al-Khāliq ibn Muḥammad al-Ḥanafī, vol. 2 completed on Yawm al-Arbaʻa 22 Rajab 874 [Jan. 25, 1470] (colophon, fol. 281a) ; vol. 3 completed on Yawm al-Ithnayn 30 Ramaḍān 874 [April 2, 1470] (colophon, fol. 258b).

Collation vol. 2: Paper, fol. 281 ; 1⁸ (European glazed paper) + 2¹⁰ (-1, before fol. 8 in the modern foliation) 3-15¹⁰ 16¹⁰ (fol. fol. 158-165 later replacements) 17-27¹⁰ 28⁶ (-1, after fol. 281) ; the quires are numbered using Arabic numerals in black or red ink (see "8" on fol. 77a; cutt off on some quires due to the trimming of the leaves) ; catchword on the verso of each leaf.

Collation vol. 3: Paper, fol. 258 ; 1⁴ (European glazed paper) + 2¹⁰ (-1, before fol. 5 in the modern foliation) 3-25¹⁰ + 5 fol. ; the quires are numbered using Arabic numerals in black or red ink (see "8" on fol. 77a; cutt off on some quires due to the trimming of the leaves) ; catchword on the verso of each leaf.

Incipit vol. 2: احمد بن على بن حامد ابو حامد البيهقى من خسر وجرد

Explicit vol. 2: المومل بن مسرور بن ابى سهل بن مامون ... من ذى الحجه سنه سبع عشره وخمسمايه وكان من الصالحين ارباب العبادات والمجاهدات مقيما فى رباط يعقوب الصوفى بمرو تقصده الناس للتبرك به

Incipit vol. 3: ناصر بن سليمان بن ناصر بن عمران بن محمد ابو الفتح بن ابى القاسم الانصاري

Explicit vol. 3: بالله يا صبح لا تزرنا فالصبح حرب لقوم لوط انتهى اخر كتاب الطبقات الكبرى

Binding Note

Both vol. are similarly bound with red leather over paper pasteboards for upper and lower covers, fore-edge flap and envelope flap. Central blind stamped mandorla and outer border consisting of several fillets on both covers. Similar outer frame on fore-edge flap and envelope flap, with a smaller stamp on the point of the later. Blue dyed paper pastedowns in vol. 2, olive paper pastedowns in vol. 3.

Discovery Information

Subject

Shafiites—Biography—Early works to 1800

Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton

Physical Characteristics

File Count

546

Institutional Information

Collection

Manuscripts of the Islamic World

IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/a1da7755-a700-48c8-b0e6-26d6b38f49d9/manifest

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