Item Summary

A collection of forty traditions.

Descriptive Information

Title
كتاب اربعين المحكة / من تصانيف محمد بن ابي بكر.
Transliterated Title
Kitāb Arbaʻīn al-maḥkah / min taṣānīf Muḥammad ibn Abī Bakr.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 755H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcb5645381r
Publisher
15 Rajab 965 [May 13, 1558]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1558
Format
Manuscript
Extent
73 leaves : paper ; 254 x 176 (160 x 120) mm bound to 254 x 183 mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, A.D. 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1444.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
Marginal notes and glosses. Title page has short extracts from Kitāb Ṣadr al-Sharīʻah, and Kitāb al-Najjārī. Title on lower edge of text block.
Collation: Paper ; fol. 73 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 13 lines per page.
Description: Text and notes written in red, black, green and indigo ; vowel signs ; folios were trimmed and, to preserve notes, they were folded ; watermarks (circle topped with a star) ; MS in good condition except stained with water.
Origin: According to colophon copied 15 Rajab 965 by Jābir ibn Sālim ibn Shihāb al-Baghdādī (fol. 73a).
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه نستعين الحمد لله رب العالمين والعاقبة للمتقين وعدوان الا علي الظالمين ... وبعد فان العبد الفقير المذنب محمد بن ابي [بكر] رضي الله عنه بعد طول خوضه في بحر الذنوب ...
Explicit: تمت الكتاب بعون الملك الوهاب على يد اضعف العباد وافقرهم الراجي رحمة رب الغفور الحاج جابر بن سالم بن الحاج شهاب البغدادي غفر الله له ولوالديه والجميع المؤمنين والمؤمنات ... وقع الفراغ من تسخته في خامس عشر شهر رجب المرجب من شهور سنة خمس وستين وتسعماية
Binding Note
Later type II (with flap) binding in red leather and green fabric. Multi-colored endbands.

Discovery Information

Subject
Hadith—Texts—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Cloth bindings
Headbands
Watermarks

Physical Characteristics

File Count
166

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/d1dab360-bc59-466a-b3c8-971141a250a3/manifest