Item Summary

A short manual on the etiquette of marriage and the advantages of repeating the basmalah at the time of intercourse.

Descriptive Information

Title
تشنيف الاسماع بفوائد التسمية عند الجماع.
Transliterated Title
Tashnīf al-asmāʻ bi-fawāʼid al-tasmiyah ʻinda al-jimāʻ.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 224L
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dctt44pz38x
Publisher
14 Shaʻbān 1270 [May 12, 1854]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1854
Format
Manuscript
Extent
15 leaves : paper ; 226 x 160 (155 x 90) mm bound to 227 x 160 mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1904.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 2214.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from preface (fol. [i]b).
A few marginal notes. The author of this manual may be Zayn al-Dīn Abū Ḥafṣ ʻUmar ibn Aḥmad al-Shammāʻ al-Ḥalabī.
Collation: Paper ; fol. i + 15 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 23 lines per page.
Description: Rubricated ; watermarks (shield with a face-in-the-moon and roman-alphabet initials "AG") ; MS in good condition.
Origin: According to colophon copy completed Friday 14 Shaʻbān 1270 by ʻUmar ibn Khaṭṭāb (fol. 15a).
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم استعين الحمد لله وكفى وسلام على عباده الذين اصطفى و بعد فهذا تاليف شريف لطيف ظريف سميته تشنيف الاسماع ... ورتبه على مقدمة وبابين وخاتمة ...
Colophon: و کان الفراغ من کتابته ضحى يوم الجمعة بعد مضي اربعة عشر يوماً من شهر شعبان المکرم الذي هو من شهور سنة 1270 سبعين و مائتين و الف من هجرة من له العز والشرف صلى الله عليه و سلم وذلك على يد افقر العباد الى ربه الوهاب عمرابن خطاب اللهم اغفرله و لوالديه و لمن کان السبب في نسخه و لمن نظر فيه و دعا لکاتبه بالمغفرة و حسن الختام بجاه النبي عليه الصلاة و السلام. امين م
Binding Note
Later? type II (with flap) binding in brown leather and marbled paper. Flap lined with blue paper.

Discovery Information

Subject
Basmalah—Early works to 1800
Sexual ethics—Religious aspects—Islam—Early works to 1800
Marriage—Religious aspects—Islam—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
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Physical Characteristics

File Count
44

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/3d45ab58-e645-4893-938a-723bf065268c/manifest