Item Summary

A work on tradition, being a redaction of al-Maqāṣid al-ḥasanah by al-Sakhāwī, the authorʼs teacher. Arranged alphabetically.

Descriptive Information

Title
تمييز الطيب من الخبيث / للحافظ عبد الرحمن بن الربيع.
Transliterated Title
Tamyīz al-ṭayyib min al-khabīth / lil-Ḥāfiẓ ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn al-Rabīʻ.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 32L
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcp2677746d
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1604
Extent
152 leaves : paper ; 192 x 130 (115 x 57) mm bound to 190 x 135 mm.
Provenance
Ownership signatures: Muḥammad ibn Muṣṭafá al-shahīr bi-al-Ṭanṭāwī dated 1283, obscured signature (fol. 1a), Muḥammad (fol. 2a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1904.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1469.
Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), II, p. 424, VI, pp. 46-7.
Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, I, pp. 288-9.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 2a).
Marginal notes and glosses; marginal summaries. Fihris (fol. 1a).
Collation: Paper ; fol. 152 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 15 lines per page ; ruled, with slanted indents for marginal comments.
Description: Watermarks (unidentified containing crescent, star, trefoil) ; MS in good condition.
Origin: According to colophon copy completed Wednesday 14 Ṣafar 1013 in Islāmbūl (fol. 152b).
Incipit: الحمد لله الذي رفع بعض خلقه على بعض في الدرجات والمنازل ... وبعد فاني وفقت على كتاب المقاصد الحسنة في بيان كثير من الاحاديث الدائرة علي الالسنة ...
Colophon: وقد تم الکتاب في يوم الاربعاء رابع عشر صفر الخير سنة ثلاث عشر والف باسلام بول سنة 1013
Binding Note
Later type II (with flap) binding in brown leather and paper. Endbands. Flap is missing.

Physical Characteristics

File Count
312

Institutional Information

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

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/ad3276e4-68f8-4602-96d2-84513764adbf/manifest