Item Summary

A metrical treatise on the abbreviations used in al-Jāmiʻ al-ṣaghīr.

Descriptive Information

Title
رسالة في رموز كتب الحديث / لاحمد بن مكي.
Transliterated Title
Risālah fī rumūz kutub al-ḥadīth / li-Aḥmad ibn Makkī.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 730H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcv979vf07j
Publisher
1056? [1646 or 1647?]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1646
Format
Manuscript
Extent
3 leaves : paper ; 192 x 131 (155 x 95) mm bound to 192 x 135 mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1402.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from flyleaf.
Fawāʼid on folio 2b.
Collation: Paper ; fol. i + 3 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 13 lines per page in two columns.
Description: Rubricated ; vowel signs ; MS in good condition.
Origin: According to colophon copied or written 1056, possibly by the author (fol. 2a).
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم * يقول من وشّا سطور مسکي * الحسني احمد بن مکي * الحمد لله على نعمائه حمدا يباري الوفر من الآية ...
Colophon: فان يکن به رواة اطلقا * وقد اتى نظم الرموز مونقا * في عام ستة وخمسين تلت * لعشرة من المائين قد خلت * والحمد لله على الاتمام * حمدا يباري وافر الانعام * وافضل الصلاة والسلام * على النبي السيد التهامي * واله وصحبه الکرام * من ذکرهم مسك لدى الختام
Binding Note
Later type II (with flap) limp binding in red paper.

Discovery Information

Subject
Suyūṭī 1445-1505—Jāmiʻ al-ṣaghīr
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton

Physical Characteristics

File Count
19

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/fa09a775-79ba-4d13-aadb-e75b59d43e73/manifest