Descriptive Information

Title

الشجرة في ذكر نسب النبي واصحابه العشرة ... [الخ.]

Transliterated Title

al-Shajarah fī dhikr nasab al-Nabī wa-aṣḥābihi al-ʻasharah ... [etc.]

Call Number

Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 863Y

Identifier

http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/5712mh072

Publisher

[Mecca], Rajab 851-Shaʻbān 854 [1447-1450]

Language

Arabic

Date Created

1447-1450

Format

Manuscript

Extent

leaves : paper ; 188 x 140 (135-145 x 100-110) mm.

Provenance

Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.

Source Acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

Mach, R. Catalogue of Arabic Manuscripts (Yahuda Section), 4513, 4515.

Brockelmann, GAL, I, 589 (no. 20); S I, 811.

Rights Statement

No Known Copyright

Contents

1. fol. 1b-33b: al-Shajarah fī dhikr nasab al-Nabī wa-aṣḥābihi al-ʻasharah.

2. fol. 34b-222b: al-Iʻlām bi-sīrat al-Nabī ʻalayhi afḍal al-ṣalāh wa-al-salām. Divided into 15 bābs; followed by an appendix containing the annals A.H. 12-60 (fol. 147b-206a) and a brief chronicle of the Umayyad and Abbasid caliphs. The author completed his work in Shiraz, Ramaḍān 747.

Notes

Ms. composite codex.

Layout: 17-21 lines per page.

Origin: [al-Shajarah fī dhikr nasab al-Nabī] Copied Shaʻbān 854 by Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd Allāh al-Madanī, collated with the autograph in Mecca, 854 -- [al-Iʻlām bi-sīrat al-Nabī] Copied Rajab 851 in Mecca by Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Akhṣāṣ al-Shāfiʻī.

Incipit: [الشجرة] الحمد لله المنىر الهادى * الملك الحق البدىع البادى -- [الاعلام بسيرة النبي] الحمد لله ذى المن والاحسان ... وبعد فىقول ... انى لما خرجت من الاوطان

Discovery Information

Subject

Muḥammad Prophet -632—Genealogy—Early works to 1800

Muḥammad Prophet -632—Friends and associates—Genealogy—Early works to 1800

Muḥammad Prophet -632—Biography—Early works to 1800

Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton

Physical Characteristics

File Count

460

Institutional Information

Collection

Manuscripts of the Islamic World

IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/32fd8a3a-62dd-4c4a-922e-6bd60bd4a5ff/manifest

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