Item Summary

Dense copy of a commentary on al-Bukhārī's Jāmiʻ al-Ṣaḥīḥ, completed on 8 Dhū al-Qaʻdah 788 [Dec. 1, 1386] (see end of text, fol. 103a).

Descriptive Information

Title
كتاب التنقيح لالفاظ الجامع الصحيح / للعلامة بدر الدين الزركشي...
Transliterated Title
Kitāb al-Tanqīḥ li-alfāẓ al-Jāmiʻ al-ṣaḥīḥ / lil-ʻAllāmah Badr al-Dīn al-Zarkashī...
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 530Y
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/2j62s7468
Publisher
[1478]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1478
Format
Manuscript
Extent
105 leaves : paper ; 183 x 130 (152 x 115) mm. bound to 183 x 140 mm.
Provenance
Waqf from al-Ḥājj Muṣṭafá al-Ḥalabī(?), 15 Shawwāl 1245 [April 9, 1830] (fol. 1b, upper margin). Several ownership statements on fol. 1a (some partly wanting), including one in the name of Muṣṭafá walad al-ḥājj Ibrāhīm(?) ---? (dated end of Shawwāl 1145 [April 1733]) ; one in the name of Ismāʻīl al-ʻAjlūnī ; and one in the name of al-Ḥājj Muḥammad ibn Khalīl al-Baghdādī, from the books of al-Shaykh Ismāʻīl al-ʻAjlūnī (dated 20 Ṣ[afar] 1162 [Feb. 9, 1749]). Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Mach, R. Yahuda, 579
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from fol. 1a. A similar title appears in the preamble (fol. 1b, l. 10-11) and the colophon (fol. 103a): "al-Tanqīḥ li-alfāẓ al-Jāmiʻ al-ṣaḥīḥ". The name of the author appears in the colophon as: Badr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd Allāh al-Zarkashī.
Physical description: 32-35 lines per page. Written in informal but clear small hand in black ink with use of red. Soft light cream paper, with pulp visible. Collation statements at the end of each quire, in the form "qūbila fa-ṣaḥḥa" (see fol. 13b, margin). Several inscriptions on the pastedown of the upper cover and on fol. 1a, including verses of poetry, additions (fāʼidah), and ownership statements. Fol. 103b-104b: Blank. Quires disbound.
Collation: Paper, fol. 105 ; 1-6¹⁴ 7¹⁴ (+1, fol. 94) 8⁶ ; catchword on the verso of each leaf ; the quires are numbered using Arabic numerals, except for the last one (see "2" on fol. 14a) ; foliation in Arabic numerals ; modern foliation in pencil in Western numerals (omits the first fol.).
Inscription in Roman script on a label pasted on the pastedown of the upper cover: "AUT S 54" (repeated in red pencil on the pastedown).
Origin: According to colophon, copy completed on Monday 17 Jumādá II 883 [Sept. 15, 1478] by Aḥmad ibn ---? al-Ḥamawī al-Ḥanbalī (fol. 103a).
Incipit: الحمد لله على ما عم بالانعام وخص بالبيان والافهام والصلاة والسلام ... اما بعد فانى قصدت فى هذا الاملاء الى ايضاح ما وقع فى صحيح
Explicit: وان ينفع قاريه وكاتبه والراجع اليه عند الاشكال بمنه وكرمه لا رب غيره ولا معبود سواه قال مولفه الشيخ الامام العلامة بدر الدين محمد بن عبد الله الزركشى رحمه الله ورضى عنه فرغت منه فى الثامن من ذى قعده الحرام سنه ثمان وثمانين وسبعمايه تم الكتاب المسمى بالتنقيح على الفاظ الجامع الصحيح
Binding Note
Quarter bound with flap in marbled paper and golden-brown leather. Marbled paper pastedowns. Disbound.

Discovery Information

Subject
Bukhārī, Muḥammad ibn Ismāʻīl 810-870—Jāmiʻ al-ṣaḥīḥ
بخاري، محمد بن اسماعيل—جامع الصحيح
Hadith—Language, style—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Autographs
donation inscriptions

Physical Characteristics

File Count
108

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/85be187e-69be-44a5-95d2-487648e21c88/manifest