Item Summary

A biographical dictionary of the illustrious men of Damascus.

Descriptive Information

Title
تراجم شيوخ دمشق.
Transliterated Title
Tarājim shuyūkh Dimashq.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 178B
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/tb09j829s
Publisher
[after 1475]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1475-1546
Format
Manuscript
Extent
113 leaves : paper ; 188 x 136 (135 x 100) mm bound to 196 x 143 mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Bārūdī, Beirūt, 1925.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Mach, R. Catalogue of Arabic Manuscripts (Yahuda Section), 722.
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from label on spine.
Marginal notes and glosses; marginal summaries. Incomplete at beginning and end. Bookdealers' markings and labels. Believed to be an autograph manuscript by Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī Ibn Ṭūlūn (1475-1546).
Collation: Paper ; fol. i (later brown paper) + 113 + ii (f. ii is later brown paper) ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 23 lines per page.
Description: Overlining and overwriting in red ; MS in good condition.
Incipit: وهذا اوان الشروع في تراجم الشيوخ الاول فالاول ومن الله سبحانه اسال الاعانه وعليه اتوكل حرف الهمزة من اسمه ابراهيم ...
Ending: والقبض والتوکيل في الشراء ... بصيغة الاداء
Binding Note
Modern binding in dark red fabric. Brown paper pastedowns and flyleaves.

Discovery Information

Subject
Muslim scholars—Syria—Damascus—Biography—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Cloth bindings

Physical Characteristics

File Count
119

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/c9e2f5ab-ecd6-454d-9670-0a82aa745b99/manifest