Item Summary

Parts 1-4 of al-Kawākib al-munīrah.

Descriptive Information

Title
الكواكب المنيرة المجتمعة في تراجم المجتهدين الائمة الاربعة / للعالم اسماعيل العجلونى الدمشقى.
Transliterated Title
al-Kawākib al-munīrah al-mujtamaʻah fī tarājim al-mujtahidīn al-aʼimmah al-arbaʻah / lil-ʻālim Ismāʻīl al-ʻAjlūnī al-Dimashqī.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 235Y
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dc1n79hg81t
Publisher
Dimashq, al-Shām, 14 Rabīʻ al-Awwal 1203-1 Jumādá al-Thāniyah, 1203 [December 13, 1788-February 27, 1789]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1788-1789
Format
Manuscript
Extent
209 leaves : paper ; 206 x 154 (153 x 105) mm bound to 206 x 160 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), 4663, 4665, 4678, 4682.
Mach, R. Catalogue of Arabic Manuscripts (Yahuda Section), ǂc 4663, 4665, 4678, 4682.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Contents
1. fol. 3b-61b: Kitāb ʻIqd al-laʼālī wa-al-marjān fī tarjamat al-Imām Abī Ḥanīfah al-Nuʻmān.
2. fol. 63a-87a: Tasʹhīl al-masālik bi-tarjamat al-Imām Mālik.
3. fol. 89a-131b: Tāj al-mulūk al-nafīs bi-tarjamat al-Imām al-Shāfiʻī Muḥammad ibn Idrīs.
4. fol. 133a-209b: ʻIqd al-luʼluʼ wa-al-zabarjad fī tarjamat al-Imām al-jalīl Aḥmad.
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
Marginal notes. Label on both pastedowns: "ELS no. 235". Other labels and marking from the bookdealer on pastedowns. Stamp and symbols (fol. 1a). Inserts from book dealer. Title also on lower edge of text block. Spine label "H 11".
Collation: Paper ; fol. 209 ; quires signed separately for each chapter ; collation notes ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 23 lines per page.
Description: Rubricated ; trimmed with some edges folded to retain notes ; watermarks (three crescents, lion, crown?, grapes?, other unidentfied marks, roman-alphabet letters "BB[?]") ; MS in good condition.
Origin: [ʻIqd al-laʼālī] Copied Jumādá al-Ūlá, 1203 in Damascus, Syria -- [Tasʹhīl al-masālik] Copied 1 Rabīʻ al-Thānī 1203 -- [Tāj al-mulūk] Copied 14 Rabīʻ al-Awwal 1203 -- [ʻIqd al-luʼluʼ] Copied 1 Jumādá al-Thāniyah, 1203.
Incipit: الحمد لله الذى جعل التاريخ حافظا ومعرفا للاوقات ... اما بعد فيقول العبد الفقير ... اسمعيل العجلونى ابن محمد جراح قد افردت الامام الملك رحمه الله تعالى بترجمة في رسالة حين اقراى لشيئ من اوايل كتابه ...
Colophon: تمت وبالخير ... كتابتها ... الخميس غرة جمادى الثانية سنة الف وماتين وثلاث تم
Binding Note
Contemporaneous? type II (with flap) binding in red leather and gray paper with silver designs. Endbands.

Discovery Information

Subject
Abū Ḥanīfah -767 or 768
Mālik ibn Anas -795
Shāfiʻī, Muḥammad ibn Idrīs 767 or 768-820
Ibn Ḥanbal, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad 780-855
Hanafites—Biography—Early works to 1800
Hanbalites—Biography—Early works to 1800
Malikites—Biography—Early works to 1800
Shafiites—Biography—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Headbands
Watermarks

Physical Characteristics

File Count
431

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/defc5f3e-4b58-40e8-8f36-e504f0e6483b/manifest