Item Summary

A biographical dictionary of some of the Shāfiʻite jurisprudents, taken from Dhayl al-Rawḍatayn of Abū Shāmah 599-665 [1203-1267].,A few marginal notes. On folio 32 occurs a short account of the life of Abū Shāmah. The names of two relatives of Abū Shāmah are written on fol. 48b: ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abī Bakr ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad al-Maqdisī and Ibrāhīm ibn ʻUthmān ibn Abī Bakr al-Maqdisī.

Descriptive Information

Title
تراجم السادات الشافعية الفقهاء من ذيل الروضتين لابي شامة / قاضي شهبة الاسدي.
Transliterated Title
Tarājim al-sādāt al-shāfiʻīyah al-fuqahāʼ min Dhayl al-Rawḍatayn li-Abī Shāmah / Qāḍī Shuhbah al-Asadī.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 203H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcns064g87s
Language
Arabic
Format
Manuscript
Extent
48 leaves : paper ; 180 x 135 (145 x 103) mm. bound to 183 x 135 mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 694.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Collation: Paper ; fol. 48 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Description: Rubricated ; partially pointed text ; MS in good condition.
Layout: 17-19 lines per page.
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
Ending: هذا آخر ترجمته من ... في فقهاء اليمن
Incipit: بسم الله ... تراجم الفقهاء الشافعية من ذيل الروضتين
Binding Note
Type III (without flap) binding in brown leather. Gold-tooled and stamped mandorla with pendants and frame. Blind-stamped decorative edging. Pastedowns with block-pressed design.

Discovery Information

Subject
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Muslim scholars—Biography—Early works to 1800
Shafiites—Biography—Early works to 1800
Blind tooled bindings
Gold tooled bindings

Physical Characteristics

File Count
104

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/087e3ee3-e93f-42f8-8801-c314ec7d61a2/manifest