Item Summary

First half of the Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī.

Descriptive Information

Title
النصف الاول من صحيح البخاري
Transliterated Title
al-Niṣf al-awwal min Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī.
Call Number
Oversize Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 1904Yq
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/z029p7338
Publisher
[ 14--?]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1400-1420
Format
Manuscript
Extent
302 leaves: paper ; 290 x 220 (235 x 165) mm. bound to 290 x 225 mm.
Provenance
Long selling statement dated 19 Jumādá al-Ūlá 823 H. [1420], mentioning the names of [---] Ibn ʻAlī ibn ʻUthmān Abū [---], known as Najm al-Tāriqī [Mach reads Ṭārimī] and of al-amīr Naṣr Allāh ibn ... Ḥāmid ibn ... ʻAbd al-Laṭīf ... al-Shakarlabī (fol 2a). Circular seal on fol. 2a. Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Mach, R. Yahuda, 577
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from colophon (fol. 302a). The same title appears on the tail of the text block.
23 lines per page. Written in medium large naskh in black ink with use of red. Biscuit paper with laid lines visible. Marginal annotations. Portion of the inscriptions on the margins cut off due to the trimming of the pages.
Incipit: اخبرنا الشيخ الامام ... ابو محمد القسم بن الامام ... ابى القاسم على بن الحسن بن هبة الله ... قراةً عليه فى ذى الحجة سنة ثلاث وثمانين وخمسماية بدمشق قال اخبرنا
Explicit: باب اسلام سلمان الفارسى رضى الله عنه حدثنى الحسن بن عمر بن شقيق ... عليهما ستّماية سنة ه ه ه بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم كتاب المغازى باب غ-- العشيرة حدثنى عبد الله بن محمد قال حدثنا وهب تم النصف الاول من صحيح البخارى زيتلوه النصف الاخر فى المغازى
Binding Note
Brown leather over paper pasteboards for upper and lower covers, fore-edge flap and envelope flap. Both covers have a central medallion consisting of a star motif inscribed in several circles. Outer frame consisting of fillets. Leather doublure.

Discovery Information

Subject
Hadith—Texts—Early works to 1800
Acquisition of manuscripts—Islamic Empire—15th century
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton

Physical Characteristics

File Count
324

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/aa217489-3c80-4821-9e4d-7ebee0afb997/manifest