Item Summary

A collection of traditions on giving thanks.

Descriptive Information

Title
كتاب الشكر وما روي فيه / تأليف ابي بكر عبد الله بن محمد بن عبيد القرشي بن ابي الدنيا.
Transliterated Title
Kitāb al-Shukr wa-mā ruwiya fīh / taʼlīf Abī Bakr ʻAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad ibn ʻUbayd al-Qurashī ibn Abī al-Dunyā.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 744H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dc6969zb817
Publisher
[12th century?]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1100-1199
Format
Manuscript
Extent
47 leaves : paper ; 198-202 x 140144 (150 x 95) mm bound to 210 x 150 mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1420.
Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), V, p. 105.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
Marginal notes and glosses. Several certificates (samʻ and qirāʼah) in the margins of the initial and final pages.
Collation: Paper ; fol. i + 47 ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 13 lines per page.
Description: Vowel signs ; MS in good condition; mended. MS has been trimmed with slight loss of marginal text. MS is extremely rare.
Origin: Probably from Xllth century.
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه استعين اخبرنا الشيخ الفقيه الامام العالم ... ابو طاهر احمد بن محمد بن احمد السلفى الاصبهانى ...
Colophon: آخرالکتاب والحمد لله وحده وصلواته على سيدنا محمد واله وصحبه اجمعين کلما ذکره الذاکرون وغفل عنه الغافلون
Binding Note
Later type II (with flap) binding in brown leather and red paper. Multi-colored endbands.

Discovery Information

Subject
Hadith—Texts—Early works to 1800
Gratitude—Religious aspects—Islam—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Certificates
Headbands

Physical Characteristics

File Count
107

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/6f39915a-5e44-499d-8a52-be561892ca6e/manifest