Item Summary

A collection of forty traditions extensively explained by other traditions and metrical selections.

Descriptive Information

Title
كتاب الاربعين المغنية بفنونها عن المعين / اعتنى بتخريجها والكلام عليها صلاح الدين ابو سعيد خليل بن بدر الدين كيكندي العلائي الشافعي.
Transliterated Title
Kitāb al-Arbaʻīn al-mughniyah bi-funūnihā ʻan al-muʻīn / iʻtaná bi-takhrījihā wa-al-kalām ʻalayhā Ṣalāḥ al-Dīn Abū Saʻīd Khalīl ibn Badr al-Dīn Kaykandī al-ʻAlāʼī al-Shāfiʻī.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 762H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dc8g84mz32w
Publisher
23 Rajab 1135 [April 29, 1723]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1723
Format
Manuscript
Extent
128 leaves : paper ; 211 x 152 (170 x 84) mm bound to 210 x 156 mm.
Provenance
Obscured ownership signature of Muṣṭafá (fol. 1a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1438.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
A few marginal notes.
Collation: Paper ; fol. 128 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 31-32 lines per page ; frame-ruled in red.
Description: Entries in red, headings in red or green ; overlining and verse separators in red ; watermarks (crown-star-crescent variant with two animals below the crown [dogs?]) ; MS in good condition.
Decoration: Illuminated headpiece in gold, red, black and blue-green. Opening spread frame-ruled in gold and blue-green (fol. 1b-2a).
Origin: According to colophon copied Thursday 23 Rajab 1135 by Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, known as al-Baḥr al-Mālikī (fol. 128a).
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم اخبرنا الشيخ الامام العالم الاوحد الحافظ ابو سعيد صلاح الدين خليل بن الامير المرحوم بدر الدين كيكلدى ... الحمد لله رب العالمين لارب سواه ... اما بعد فقد كثر من ايمة الحديث الاعلام فن القديم والحديث من الاعوام ...
Colophon: قد منّ الله تعالى وانعم باتمام هذا الکتاب على يد العبد الفقير محمد بن محمد الشهير بالبحر المالکي غفر الله ذنوبه وملأ من الخير ذنوبه في صبيحة يوم الخميس الثالث والعشرين من شهر رجب الفرد سنة خمس وثلاثين وماية والف. والحمد لله. تم
Binding Note
Contemporaneous? type II (with flap) binding in brown leather. Blind-stamped mandorla and blind-tooled decorative edging on covers. Similar decoration on flap. Red paper pastedowns.

Discovery Information

Subject
Hadith—Texts—Early works to 1800
Hadith—Commentaries—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
headpieces (layout features)
illuminated manuscripts
Blind tooled bindings
Autographs
Watermarks

Physical Characteristics

File Count
268

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/4fb8db5b-5948-4b78-96f6-e1f8506529c5/manifest