Item Summary

Collection of ḥadīths.

Descriptive Information

Title
الجزء الرابع من الاحكام الكبرى / للحافظ عبد الحق الاشبيلي
Transliterated Title
al-Juzʼ al-rābiʻ min al-Aḥkām al-kubrá / lil-Ḥāfiẓ ʻAbd al-Ḥaqq al-Ishbīlī.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 712H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcx633fc023
Publisher
Tripoli, 874? [1470?]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1470
Format
Manuscript
Extent
216 leaves: paper ; 275 x 190 (190 x 130) mm. bound to 275 x 190 mm.
Provenance
Ownership statement on fol. 1a. Acquired by Robert Garrett from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett coll., 1376
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
Marginal annotations. Bottom of fol. 2 wanting, with loss of text. List of the titles of the chapters on fol. 1b-2a. Kabīkaj (invocation against bookworms) on fol. 1a. Inscription in pencil using Western numerals on fol. 1a: "968" (corresponds to Brill's list, see Houtsma, M. Th. Catalogue d'une collection de manuscrits arabes et turcs, no. 712).
Collation: Paper, fol. 216 ; 1¹⁰ (-2, before fol. 1) 2-20¹⁰ 21⁶ (+1) 22¹⁰ (+1, after fol. 215) ; catchword on the verso of each leaf ; the quires are numbered using Arabic ordinals in the form "thānī al-rābiʻ" (see fol. 9a).
Layout: 22 lines per page.
Description: Written in casual medium small script in black ink, with larger script for headings and keywords. Cream paper, glossy, with laid and chain lines visible
Origin: Copy completed on the morning of ʻArafat, 9 [Dhū] al-Ḥijjah 874(?) in Ṭarabulus(?) (colophon, fol. 216b).
Incipit: باب النهى عن الشعار مسلم حدثنا يحيى بن يحيى قال قرات على مالك عن نافع عن بن عمر ان رسول الله صلى الله عليه نهى عن الشعار
Explicit: مسلم حدثنا يحيى بن يحيى وابو كامل ... رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم يختله ليطعنه تم كتاب السلام والاستيدان وبه كمل السفر الرابع والحمد لله يتلوه فى اول السفر الخامس كتاب الامراض والطبّ ان شا الله
Binding Note
Disbound copy, with only leather spine extant, placed in a binding consisting of an upper and a lower cover made of brown leather over paper pasteboards, with a central stamped mandorla with small pendants on the vertical axis, and an outer border made of fillets and a guilloche. Plain leather doublure. The envelope flap is made of golden brown leather over paper pasteboard, with an elaborate frame consisting of blind tooled fillets and a running pattern made of impressions of a small stamp. The corners of the central panel are outlined by blind fillets and filled with a gold tooled motif. A gold fillet outlines the central panel, left untooled except for a central teardrop motif pointing towards the left, consisting of a central cross outlined in gold on a red ground, with several outlines in gold and green(?). Embossed leather doublure. Fore-edge flap repaired.

Discovery Information

Subject
Hadith—Texts
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Blind tooled bindings
Leather doublures
Gold tooled bindings
Autographs

Physical Characteristics

File Count
446

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/215e3f4a-3746-4b46-9953-59097ca46d70/manifest