Item Summary

A treatise on the method of determining the beginning of the month of Ramaḍān and the time to start fasting.

Descriptive Information

Title
خلاصة البيان في كيفية ثبوت رمضان / لعلامة محمد الجوهري
Transliterated Title
Khulāṣat al-bayān fī kayfīyat thubūt Ramaḍān / li-ʻAllāmah Muḥammad al-Jawharī
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 951H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dc76537c85n
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1800-1850
Extent
10 leaves : paper ; 218 x 160 (155 x 100) mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1861.
Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, III, p. 225.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
It is stated in the colophon that the work was composed 1196/1782. Three short fawāʼid on title page.
Collation: Paper ; fol. 10 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 13 lines per page.
Description: Watermarks (three crescents) ; MS in good condition.
Origin: Probably from the early part of the XIXth century.
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن لارحيم وبه عوني الحمد لمن منح بوارد الامتنان وفتح مغلق نوادر التبيان ... وبعد فهذه ملحة لطيفة شريفة منيفة تتضمن كيفية ثبوت شهر الصيام ...
Colophon: قال مؤلفه حفظه الله تعالى وکان الفراغ منها في سويعة من يوم الثلاث المبارك ثالث شهر رمضان المعظم سنة ستة وتسعين وماية والف من هجرة من له العزو الشرف صلّى الله عليه وسلم امين والحمد لله رب العالمين
Binding Note
Unbound.

Physical Characteristics

File Count
24

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/2f93141f-4350-40bc-b04e-732dad3e5d19/manifest