Item Summary

Collection of hundred traditions divided into seven parts, completed in 797 [1394 or 5] (see colophon, fol. 45a). On two folios before the beginning of the text, copy of texts in praise of the collection by Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Dajawī, Burhān al-Dīn Ibrāhīm ibn Mūsá al-Abnāsī, and Majd al-Dīn Muḥammad al-Fīrūzābādī, written by the same hand as the main text (fol. 2a-3a).

Descriptive Information

Title
الجزء الاول [السابع] من نظم اللألي في المائة العوالي المخرجة للبرهان الشامي / تخريج ابي الفضل العسقلاني
Transliterated Title
al-Juzʼ al-awwal [al-sābiʻ] min Naẓm al-laʼālī fī al-miʼah al-ʻawālī al-mukhrajah lil-Burhān al-Shāmī / takhrīj Abī al-Faḍl al-ʻAsqalānī.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 763H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dchx11xs31t
Publisher
[1463]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1463
Extent
45 leaves: paper ; 185 x 135 (132 x 110) mm bound to 185 x 135 mm.
Provenance
Acquired by Robert Garrett from Brill, Leiden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett coll., 1439
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title-page of each part (fol. 4a, 10a [later hand], 16a, 21a, 26a, 32a, 38a). The same title appears in the colophon (fol. 45a).
Collation: Paper ; foliation in ink using Hindu-Arabic numerals ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 23 lines per page.
Description: Written in medium small square script in black ink ; use of red for headings, keywords and re-inking ; watermarks (three crescents?).
Origin: Copy completed on Yawm al-Khamīs 17 Shawwāl 867 [July 1463] (colophon, fol. 45a).
Incipit: اما بعد حمد الله على نعم عظنته ان تبلغ الالسن حق حمدها ... فان الحديث النبوى المرفوع
Explicit: اخبرنا ابو العباس احمد بن ابى طالب .... قال رسول الله ... قال سبحان من ... عما يصفون وسلام على المرسلين والحمد لله رب العالمين
Binding Note
Later quarter-bound type III (without flap) binding in dark brown leather and blue paper over paper pasteboards.

Physical Characteristics

File Count
98

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/e1b38827-d7a8-4dcf-b74a-0e9ac59ddf65/manifest