Item Summary

Abridgment of the author's Tahdhīb al-Tahdhīb, an abridgment of Tahdhīb al-kamāl fī maʻrifat al-rijāl, a summary by Jamāl al-Dīn Yūsuf ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān al-Mizzī (d. 742/1341) of al-Kamāl fī maʻrifat al-rijāl by Taqī al-Dīn al-Jammāʻīlī (d. 600/1203). According to the end of this copy, the abridgment was completed on 24 Jumādá al-Ākhirah 827 [1424] (see fol. 155a). Leaves are missing in this copy, between fol. 4 and 5 (corresponds to fol. 3 and 15 in the Arabic foliation in black ink), between fol. 11 and 12 (fol. 22 and 30 in the Arabic foliation), between fol. 15 and 16 (fol. 32 and 34 in the Arabic foliation), etc.

Descriptive Information

Title
تقريب التهذيب
Transliterated Title
Taqrīb al-Tahdhīb
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 825Y
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/w0892d567
Publisher
[ 1684?]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1684
Format
Manuscript
Extent
ii + 156 + ii leaves: paper ; 206 x 155 (160 x 100) mm. bound to 206 x 170 mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Mach, R. Yahuda, 4642
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from beginning of text (fol. 3b, l. 9).
25 lines per page. Written in small naskh in black ink with use of red for headings and entries. Glazed European paper with atermark (Star, see fol. 5). Table of contents on fol. 1a-b. Fol. 156 blank. Fol. i-ii are added endleaves, with inscription in Arabic on fol. (ii)b. Title on the lower edge of the text block (illegible).
Copy completed on Wednesday 23 Jumādá al-Ākhirah [10?]95 by Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Sanhūrī al-Shāmī (colophon, fol. 155a).
Incipit: الحمد لله الذى رفع بعض خلقه على بعض درجات ... اما بعد فاننى لما فرغت من تهذيب تذميب الكمال فى اسما الرجال الذى جمعت فيه مقصود التهذيب لحافظ عصره ابى الحجاج المزّى
Explicit: كانها ام عطية ام ولد عبد الرحمن بن عوف عزام سلمة لا تعرف من الثالثة والله اعلم اخر كتاب التقريب التقريب والحمد لله باطنا وظاهرا ... اصحاب رسول الله اجمعين قال مصنفه شيخ الاسلام خاتمة الحفاظ ... شهاب الدين احمد ابن حجر العسقلاني ... فرغ منه ... فى يوم الاربعا رابع عشرين جمادى الآخرة سنة سبع وعشرين وثماني ماية
Binding Note
Brown leather over paper pasteboards for upper and lower covers, with blind stamped and gold painted central mandorla and an outer border made of fillets and a s-shape running pattern. Re-used? fore-edge flap and envelope flap in red leather. Marbled paper with floral motif pastedown of upper and lower covers.

Discovery Information

Subject
Ibn Ḥajar al-ʻAsqalānī, Aḥmad ibn ʻAlī 1372-1449—Tahdhīb al-Tahdhīb Abridgment
ابن حجر العسقلاني، احمد بن علي—تهذيب التهذيب
Hadith—Authorities—Dictionaries—Early works to 1800
Muslim scholars—Biography—Dictionaries—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton

Physical Characteristics

File Count
162

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/766d9de9-23ae-4f96-ae5b-f0286af5e493/manifest