Item Summary

Second part of al-Ṭabaqāt al-Shāfiʻīyah al-wusṭá.

Descriptive Information

Title
الجزء الثاني من الطبقات الوسطى / للشيخ الامام العالم العامل المحقق المدقق الفهامة المؤرخ الحافظ تاج الدين فريد دهره ووحيد عصره ابي نصر عبد الوهاب السبكي الشافعي...
Transliterated Title
al-Juzʾ al-thānī min al-Ṭabaqāt al-wusṭá / lil-Shaykh al-imām al-ʻālim al-ʻāmil al-muḥaqqiq al-mudaqqiq al-fahhāmah al-muʾarrikh al-ḥāfiẓ Tāj al-Dīn farīd dahrihi wa-waḥīd ʻaṣrihi Abī Naṣr ʻAbd al-Wahhāb al-Subkī al-Shāfiʻī...
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 259Y
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/mk61rk53t
Publisher
[1408 or 1411]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1408
Format
Manuscript
Extent
175 leaves: paper ; 178 x 134 (135 x 100) mm. bound 178 x 140 mm.
Provenance
Six ownership statements on fol. 2a (some erased), including one in the name of Taqī al-Dīn al-Ḥusaynī al-Ḥaṣabī, dated 1090 H. ; one in the name of al-Ḥājj Muḥammad ibn Khalīl al-Baghdādī, who acquired this vol. from Ibn Farrūkh and vol. 1 from al-Shaykh ʻAbd Allāh al-Baṣrawī, dated 1160 H. ; one in the name of Aḥmad al-Farrūkhī, dated 1223 H.(?). Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Mach, R. Yahuda, 4672
Brockelmann, C. GAL, II, 90 (13/8b) ; SII
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 2a).
Physical description: 21-22 lines per page. Written in medium small naskh in black ink with use of red. Verses of poetry and several inscriptions on fol. 1a-b and 175b; a note in pencil on fol. 1a attributed the verses to Shaykh al-Islām Najm al-Dīn al-Ghazzī, author of al-Kawākib al-sāʾirah fī aʻyān al-miʻah al-ʻāshirah. Corner of some leaves replaced with the text re-written on the repair. Stained with water and humidity ; mildew.
Two labels pasted on the pastedown of the upper cover, one with an inscription in Arabic script reading: "Raqm 26" (repeated on fol. 1a), the other with an inscription in Roman script reading: "H 18".
Origin: According to colophon, copied by Yūsuf ibn Aḥmad al-Ṣafadī for himself, from an authograph dated Damascus, Dhū al-Qaʻdah 754 [1353] (the name of the author reads: ʻAbd al-Wahhāb ibn ʻAlī ibn ʻAbd al-Kāfī al-Subkī al-Shāfiʻī). The copy was completed in the middle decade of Jumādá al-Ākhirah 811 or 814 [1408 or 1411] (fol. 174a).
Incipit: بسم ... رب يسر واعن حرف الدال داود بن نبدار بن ابرهيم الجيلي ابو سليمان درس الفقه
Binding Note
Green-dyed fabric over paper pasteboards for upper and lower covers. Paper pastedowns.

Discovery Information

Subject
Shaffites—Biography—Dictionaries—History—14th century—Sources
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Dictionaries

Physical Characteristics

File Count
181

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

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