Item Summary

Commentary on al-Bukhārī's Jāmiʻ al-Ṣaḥīḥ, completed on 8 Dhū al-Qaʻdah 788 [Dec. 1, 1386] (see end of text, fol. 195a).

Descriptive Information

Title
كتاب التنقيح لالفاظ الجامع الصحيح / تأليف الشيخ الامام العالم الهمام الفقيه المحدث ابي عبد الله محمد بن عبد الله الزركشي الشافعي
Transliterated Title
Kitāb al-Tanqīḥ li-alfāẓ al-Jāmiʻ al-ṣaḥīḥ / taʼlīf al-shaykh al-imām al-ʻālim al-humām al-faqīh al-muḥaddith Abī ʻAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd Allāh al-Zarkashī al-Shāfiʻī.
Call Number
Islamic manuscripts, Garrett no. 420Y
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/765373968
Publisher
[ 1466]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1466
Format
Manuscript
Extent
ii, 195, ii leaves : paper ; 260 x 170 (195 x 125) mm. bound to 260 x 190 mm.
Provenance
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 title page, written by a later hand (fol. 1a in the modern foliation).
Physical description: 31 lines per page. Written in medium small naskh in black ink with use of red for re-inking. Red and/or black pointed circles text-stops. Thick, soft cream paper, glossy, with pulp and laid and chain lines visible. Fol. 1-8 are modern replacements (European paper with watermark). Before fol. 1 in the modern foliation is a fly-leaf in the same European paper. Inscription on the upper margin of the first original folio (fol. 9a): "Sharḥ al-Bukhārī lil-Zarkashī tamāman naqaṣa minhu kirās fī awwalihi ---(?)". The text has been collated (see collation statement, fol. 195a).
Inscription on the upper cover in pencil using Arabic numerals: "122".
Origin: Copy completed during the night of Saturday 28 Jumādá al-Ākhirah 870 [Feb. 15, 1466] by Mūsá ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Qādir ibn Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Qādir ibn ʻUthmān ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʻAbd al-Munʻim ibn Naʻamah ibn Sulṭān ibn Sarūr al-Jaʻfarī al-Maqdisī al-...? (colophon, fol. 195b).
Incipit: الحمد لله على ما عم بالانعام وخص بالبيان والافهام والصلاة والسلام ... اما بعد فانى قصدت فى هذا الاملاء الى ايضاح ما وقع فى الصحيح
Beginning of text in the original hand (fol. 9a): والمعروف الاول ولاندامي كان القياس ولانادمين جمع نادم من الندم
Explicit: وان ينفع قاريه وكاتبه والراجع اليه عند الاشكال لمنّه وكرمه لا ربّ غيره ولا معبود سواه قال مولفه الشيخ الامام العلامة الحافظ بدر الدين محمد بن الفقير الى الله تعالي عبد الله الزركشى ختم الله له بالحسنى فرغت منه فى الثامن من ذي القعده الحرام سنه ثمان وثمانين وسبع مايه
Binding Note
Paper over paper pasteboards for upper and lower covers and envelope flap. Dark brown leather for spine, fore-edge flap and edges. Paper pastedowns, some reused, with inscriptions and the impression of a seal.

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

Physical Characteristics

File Count
199

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/94c1640a-7ebf-44d2-b349-fcf9f376992d/manifest