Item Summary

A digest of Kitāb al-Irshād, the authorʼs own abridgment of Kitāb ʻUlūm al-ḥadīth.

Descriptive Information

Title
كتاب التقريب والتيسير لمعرفة سنن البشير النذير في علم الحديث / تصنيف محيي الدين النووي.
Transliterated Title
Kitāb al-Taqrīb wa-al-taysīr li-maʻrifat sunan al-bashīr al-nadhīr fī ʻilm al-ḥadīth / taṣnīf Muḥyī al-Dīn al-Nawawī.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 778H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcbk128p15s
Publisher
Shaʻbān 1066 [May/June 1656]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1656
Format
Manuscript
Extent
36 leaves : paper ; 202 x 147 (155 x 100) mm bound to 202 x 150 mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1453.
Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), II, p. 388.
Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, I, p. 231.
Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 1041-3.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
A few marginal notes. Note about the work and 4 lines of poetry following the colophon.
Collation: Paper ; fol. 36 ; catchwords ; collation note (fol. 36a) ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 21 lines per page ; ruled.
Description: Rubricated ; watermarks (crown-star-crescent; anchor) ; MS in good condition.
Origin: According to colophon copied Friday Shaʻbān 1066 by Aḥmad ibn al-Durayhim (fol. 36a).
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه ثقتي قال الشيخ الامام العلامة الاوحد شيخ الاسلام محيى الدين يحيى بن شرف بن مري النووي رحمه الله تعالى الحمد لله الفتاح المنان ذي الطول والفضل والاحسان ... اما بعد فان علم الحديث من افضل القرب الي رب العالمين ...
Colophon: وکان الفراغ من کتابة هذه النسخة يوم الجمعة في شهر شعبان سنة 1066 على يد الفقير احمد بن الدريهم غفرالله له ولوالديه ولجميع المسلمين ولمن دعا له بالمغفرة. آمين
Binding Note
Later quarter-bound type III (without flap) binding in red leather and yellow paper with red and black spots. Violet paper pastedowns. Binding contains pieces of a printed document entitled "Rules to be observed by the captain and crew" issued under the name of Ali Pacha, Grand Admiral of the Ottoman Empire.

Discovery Information

Subject
Hadith—Criticism, interpretation, etc—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Watermarks

Physical Characteristics

File Count
80

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/595dc75b-f11b-42b4-9dfb-ffe7959da223/manifest