Item Summary

A collection containing four works on Islamic topics.

Descriptive Information

Title
رسالة ابن حجر ... [الخ.]
Transliterated Title
Risālat Ibn Ḥajar ... [etc.]
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 1026H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dch128ns31b
Publisher
[17th century]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1600-1699
Format
Manuscript
Extent
280 leaves : paper ; 202 x 140 (155-165 x 90) mm bound to 200 x 150 mm.
Provenance
Ownership signatures: Ibrāhīm ʻĀtif ibn Muṣṭafá Abū Bakr Bakzādah al-Yānīwī[?] dated 1207 with his seal impression (upper pastedown, fol. 19a, etc.); seal impression (flyleaf). Reading notes (fol. 192a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, A.D. 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 2076.
Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), III, pp. 515/6; III, p. 128.
Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 8771.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Contents
1. fol. 1a-2a: [Inscriptions]
2. fol. 2b-18b: Risālat Ibn Ḥajar. A work on the science of tradition. Entitled Riyāḍ al-azʹhār fī jalāʼ al-abṣār.
3. fol. 18b-19a: Risālah-ʼi Shaykh Najm al-Dīn al-Kubrāʼ. On man's approach to God.
4. fol. 20a: [Inscriptions]
5. fol. 20b-22a: [Introduction to Khāliṣat al-ḥaqāʼiq wa-niṣāb ghāʼiṣāt al-daqāʼiq] Introduction to al-Faryābī's abridgment of his work Khāliṣat al-ḥaqāʼiq li-mā fīhi min asālīb al-daqāʼiq. The names of seventy-five works and their respective authors, from which the work was compiled, are listed.
6. fol. 22b-191b: [Khāliṣat al-ḥaqāʼiq li-mā fīhi min asālīb al-daqāʼiq] / Abū al-Qāsim Maḥmūd ibn Aḥmad ibn Abī al-Ḥusayn al-Fāryābī. A work on morals, compiled from over seventy works.
7. fol. 192a-192b: [Inscriptions] Includes a page of reading notes and signatures.
8. fol. 196a-278b: Rawnaq al-tafāsīr. On the lives of the prophets. Fol. 196b-197a contains quotations and traditions, text begins fol. 197b.
9. fol. 279a: [Extracts]
Notes
Ms. composite codex.
Title from caption of first text (fol. 2b).
Marginal notes and glosses. Titles on upper and lower edges of text block.
Collation: Paper ; fol. 280 + ii ; fols. 24-191 also foliated as 1-168 in red ink using Hindu-Arabic numerals ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 21 lines per page ; partially frame-ruled in red (fol. 19-278).
Description: Rubricated ; watermarks (fol. 1-18: anchor; fol. 20-280: crown-star-crescent) ; MS in good condition.
Origin: Probably from the XVIIth century. [Khāliṣat al-ḥaqāʼiq] Copied beginning of Dhū al-Qaʻd[ah] 1045 (fol. 191b)
Incipit: [رسالة ابن حجر] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله الذى وفق العلماء لتحصيل الاحاديث النبوية الكاشفة لاسرار القران -- [رسالة الشيخ نجم الدين الكبراء] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم قال الشيخ الامام برهان الدين سلطان الحقيقة قدوة الابدال قطب الاقطاب شيخ الورى ابو الجناب نجم الحق والدين الكبراء -- [خالصة الحقائق] الحمد لله الذى براء كل حى ثم دعاه ... يقول العبد المذنب ابو القاسم محمود بن احمد بن ابى الحسين الفاريابى-- [رونق التفاسير] الحمد لله على تواتر فضله والآية واشكر على ترادف منه ونعمائيه واصلى على حبيبه محمد ...
Explicit: [رسالة ابن حجر] والحمد لله رب العالمين والصلوة على محمد وآله اجمعين -- [رسالة الشيخ نجم الدين الكبراء] وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد وآله واصحابه وسلم تسليما كثيرا تمت -- [خالصة الحقائق] قد وقع الفراغ من تحرير هذه النسخة في اوايل شهر ذى القعد من شهور سنة خمس واربعين بعد الالف م -- [رونق التفاسير] وقع الفراغ من تحرير هذه النسخة الشريفة العالية المباركة على يد الضعيف النحيف يوسف بن صالح عفر الله له ولوالديه ولاستاديه ... يا مجيب الدعوات آمين ي رب العالمين
Binding Note
Later type II (with flap) binding in red leather with brown leather inserted panels on covers and flap. Blind-stamped mandorla with pendants attached to the covers. Silver-stamped motif attached to the flap. Decorative silver-tooled edging on covers and flap. Endbands. Flap and cover motifs do not match. Yellow paper pastedowns and violet, gold-sprinkled flyleaves. Fore-edge flap lines in leather with silver dots and tooled frame.

Discovery Information

Subject
Hadith—Criticism, interpretation, etc—Early works to 1800
Prophets, Pre-Islamic—Early works to 1800
Religious life—Islam—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Autographs
Stamps
Silver tooled bindings
Blind tooled bindings
Headbands
Watermarks
Sprinkled papers

Physical Characteristics

File Count
579

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/06ead431-cdc7-4a06-84b3-b30a673ea97d/manifest