Item Summary

Defective copy of the first volume (al-Juzʼ al-awwal on the tiple page, fol. 1a ; al-Niṣf al-awwal in the colophon, fol. 339b) of Ibn Khallikān's biographical dictionary, comprising the text to the end of the letter Kāf.

Descriptive Information

Title
الجزء الاول من كتاب وفيات الاعيان وانباء ابناء الزمان / تأليف قاضي القداه شيخ الاسلام شمس الدين احمد بن خلكان
Transliterated Title
al-Juzʼ al-awwal min Kitāb Wafayāt al-aʻyān wa-inbāʼ abnāʼ al-zamān / taʼlīf Qāḍī al-qudāh Shaykh al-Islām Shams al-Dīn Aḥmad ibn Khallikān.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 3415Y
Identifier
ark:/88435/qn59qc367
Publisher
[1752]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1752
Format
Manuscript
Extent
341 leaves: paper ; 208 x 153 (143 x 85) mm. bound to 205 x 170 mm.
Provenance
Waqf from al-Ḥājj Aḥmad Pāshā al-Jazzār for the Madrasat al-Nūr Aḥmadīyah (waqf seal dated 120- [178-], fol. 1a). Three ownership statements in the name of Muṣṭafá ibn ʻAlī Ḥamawī Zade ... (in the second statement: Muṣṭafá ibn ʻAlī Efendi al-Ḥamawī al-Daftarī ; on fol. 339b: Muṣṭafá Ḥamawī Zade āghāʼ ṭāʼifah al-Bakchariyah(?) in Damascus), Damascus, 1172 [1758 or 9] (fol. 1a and 339b) ; Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Mach, R. Yahuda, 4620
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
27 lines per page. Written in medium small naskh in black ink with use of red for keywords and entries. Red teardrop text-stops. The entries are repeated on the margin in red ink with their order number written in black. European glazed paper with watermark. Some leaves are dyed in red, yellow, or green (see fol. 23, 24). Marginal annotations, apparently by the same hand as the main text. According to the catchword and the foliation in black ink using Arabic numerals, seven leaves wanting between fol. 1 and 2. Several inscriptions on fol. 1a, including a biographical note on the author, verses of poetry, and ownership statements. Several inscriptions on fol. 340a-341b, including verses of poetry and a prayer for the night of the middle of Shaʻbān.
Copy completed at the end of Ṣafar 1165 [Jan. 1752] by Darwīsh Muḥammad Ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Ṣāliḥ Kadkhudā ibn ʻUmar Pāshā ibn Shūrīze Ḥasan Pāshā (colophon, fol. 339b, followed by two lines of poetry).
Incipit: يقول العبد الفقير الى رحمة الله تعالى احمد بن محمد بن ابرهيم بن ابي بكر ابن خلكان بعد حمد الله الذي تفرد بالبقآء وحكم على عباده بالموت والفنآء ... وبعد فهدا مختصر فى التاريخ دعانى الى جمعه انى كنت مولعا بالاطلاع
Explicit: وليتة بكسر اللام وسكون الياآء المثناة من تحتها منزلة فى طريق الحجاز ... قد رجع منها لعدم المآء وقاسوا مشقة عظيمة والله اعلم نجز النصف الاول من كتاب وفيات الاعيان وهو اخر حرف الكاف يتلوه اول النصف الثانى حرف اللام ترجمة الليث بن سعد ابن عبد الرحمن
Binding Note
Red leather over paper pasteboards for upper and lower covers, fore-edge flap and envelope flap. Both covers have a central blaind stamped mandorla and an outer frame consisting of large fillets. Similar border on the envelope flap, with small blind stamp on its point. Brown leather doublure. Rebacked. Disbound.

Discovery Information

Subject
Muslims—Biography—Dictionaries—Early works to 1800
Islamic Empire—Biography—Dictionaries—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
donation inscriptions
Dictionaries

Physical Characteristics

File Count
688

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/65fa5dde-e477-4924-804a-52a189c8b4e9/manifest