Item Summary

A book of short biographies containing the lives of ten of the Companions of the Prophet, some of their descendants, those noted for their asceticism, and those who were outstanding during the pre-Islamic period.

Descriptive Information

Title
غرر انباء نجباء الابناء / تأليف محمد بن ابي محمد بن محمد بن ظفر.
Transliterated Title
Ghurar anbāʼ nujabāʼ al-abnāʼ / taʼlīf Muḥammad ibn Abī Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Ẓafar.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 191H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcc821gv583
Publisher
[18--?]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1800-1899
Extent
78 leaves : paper ; 218 x 150 (160 x 100) mm bound to 218 x 155 mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 9506/7.
Catalogue des manuscrits arabes de la Bibliothèque Nationale, 2121/2.
Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), I, p. 443.
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 675.
Pertsch, Die orientalischen handschriften der Herzoglichen bibliothek zu Gotha, 1780.
Rieu, Supplement of the catalogue of the Arabic Mss, 1139.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Collation: Paper ; fol. 78 + i ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Description: Vowel signs ; headings in bold hand ; MS in good condition. Probably from the XIVth century.
Layout: 17 lines per page ; ruled.
Ms. codex.
The first six folios are by a later hand. Title page is completely covered with writing, including a repetition of the title, the number of pages (77) and a number of obscured ownership signatures.
Title from title page (fol. 2a).
Colophon: انقضت النکت الکرايم
Incipit: بسم الله ... قال الشيخ الامام العالم الحافظ حجة الدين
Binding Note
Later? type II (with flap) binding in brown leather and embossed red paper. Multi-colored endbands.

Physical Characteristics

File Count
170

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

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