Item Summary

A biography of Abū ʻAlī Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad al-Shawkānī. The work comprises three divisions: (1) the birth of al-Shawkānī, his characteristics and virtues, (2) his education and the shaykhs under whom he studied, (3) his students and their works.

Descriptive Information

Title
كتاب التقصار في جيد زمان علامة الاقاليم والامصار / جمع محمد بن حسن بن علي بن احمد بن ناصر الشجني.
Transliterated Title
Kitāb al-Tiqṣār fī jīd zamān ʻallāmat al-aqālīm wa-al-amṣār / jamʻ Muḥammad ibn Ḥasan ibn ʻAlī ibn Aḥmad ibn Nāṣir al-Shijnī.
Call Number
Oversize Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 262Hq
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dc9593v6978
Publisher
16 Ṣafar 1243 [September 8, 1827]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1827
Format
Manuscript
Extent
140 leaves : paper ; 323 x 225 (230-240 x 123) mm bound to 315 x 225 mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 713.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
Marginal notes and glosses. The work is of special importance in the study of the history of literature in Yemen. Title also appears on lower edge of text block.
Collation: Paper ; fol. (4) + 140 + (8) ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 24-32 lines per page ; partially frame-ruled in red (fol. 81-140).
Description: Rubricated ; vowel signs ; watermarks (shield with a face-in-the-moon and the letter "A", roman-alphabet letters "FAG"; three crescents, cursive roman-alphabet letters "B" and "G") ; MS in good condition.
Origin: According to colophon copy completed Saturday 16 Ṣafar 1243, apparently by the author (fol. 140b).
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه نستعين الحمد لله الذي جعل المجددين مصابيحا لمعالم الدين ... اما بعد فان العلمآ لما قاموا بعلآ كلمة الحق و حمد العآمة عليها ...
Colophon: وکان الفراغ من تحصيله بعناية المخدوم به وهو شيخ الاسلام حفظه الله تعالى وبارك في ايامه اوان الظهر من يوم السبت لعله سادس عشر من شهر صفر الطفر [الظفر] من شهور سنة 1243. ختمها الله تعالى وما بعدها بخير ووقانا والمؤمنين في الدارين کل ضرّ وضير امين اللهم امين سبحان ربك رب العزة عما يصفون وسلام على المرسلين والحمد لله رب العالمين
Binding Note
Later? type II (with flap) binding in dark brown leather. Color-stamped mandorla and cornerpieces and gold-tooled edging on covers. Similar decoration on flap. Binding in poor condition.

Discovery Information

Subject
Shawkānī, Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī 1759-1839
Muslim scholars—Yemen (Republic)—Biography
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Biographies
holographs (autographs)
Blind tooled bindings
Watermarks

Physical Characteristics

File Count
316

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/860f520c-4b33-4434-9bb4-def6586552e9/manifest