Item Summary

A treatise explaining the ambiguous terms in al-Jāmiʻ al-ṣaghīr.

Descriptive Information

Title
[تفسير غريب الجامع الصغير].
Transliterated Title
[Tafsīr gharīb al-Jāmiʻ al-ṣaghīr]
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 731H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dc76537c33f
Publisher
[17th century?]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1600-1699
Format
Manuscript
Extent
6 leaves : paper ; 204 x 152 (153 x 113) mm bound to 213 x 160 mm.
Provenance
Ownership signature: ʻAbd al-Kar[īm?] Shāhīn al-Armayāwī al-Ḥanafī (fol. 1a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1401.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
One marginal gloss. Before the colophon it is stated that the work is based on the lectures of al-Suyūṭī, who was the authorʼs teacher.
Collation: Paper ; fol. 6 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 25 lines per page.
Description: Rubricated ; MS in fair condition; mended.
Origin: According to colophon copied by Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Maḥallī (fol. 6a). Probably from the XVIIth century.
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وصلى الله علي سيدنا محمد وعلي اله وصحبه وسلم قال الشيخ الامام العالم العلامة الحافظ العمدة ... وبعد فقد سئلت عن غريب ما في الجامع الصغير لشيخنا الامام الحافظ الجلال السيوطي ...
Colophon: وکان الفراغ من کتابته يوم الثلاثاء على يد العبد الفقير الى الله تعالى احمد بن محمد المحلي غفر الله له ولوالديه وللمسلمين امين
Binding Note
Later half-bound type III (without flap) binding in brown material and dark brown spotted paper. Brown paper pastedowns and flyleaves

Discovery Information

Subject
Suyūṭī 1445-1505—Jāmiʻ al-ṣaghīr
Hadith—Commentaries—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Autographs

Physical Characteristics

File Count
20

Institutional Information

Collection
Princeton’s Holdings of the al-Madani Library
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/365b9d87-2937-41d6-ade1-4c33be7e917c/manifest