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Item Summary
Treatise on the orthography and meaning of names of traditionists mentioned in the Ṣaḥīḥ of al-Bukhārī and that of Muslim.
Descriptive Information
- Title
- كتاب الكنا والالقاب
- Transliterated Title
- Kitāb al-Kuná wa-al-alqāb.
- Call Number
- Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 773H
- Identifier
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/sq87c287q
- Publisher
- [1201]
- Language
- Arabic
- Date Created
- 1201
- Format
- Manuscript
- Extent
- 173 leaves: paper ; 265 x 190 (195 x 130) mm bound to 265 x 195 mm.
- Provenance
- Several ownership statements on fol. 1a (illegible) and 2a, in the name of Ismāʻīl al-Fattāl(?) dated 1100[H]; Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm al-DKDshjī; ʻAbd al-Raḥmān Ibn ʻAlī al-Maḥallātī̄[?]; Muḥammad ibn Khalīl al-Baghdādī, who acquired it from al-Maḥallātī̄, dated 1161 H. [1748]. Acquired by Robert Garrett from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
- Source Acquisition
- Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
- References
- Hitti, P. Garrett coll., 1449
- Rights Statement
- Copyright Not Evaluated
- Notes
- Ms. codex.
- Title from fol. 2a.
- On fol. 1b: Note on the transmitters of the text and biographical note on the author. Red thread page markers. Audition statement(?) dated Shawwāl 620 [1223] on fol. 2a.
- Layout: 26 lines per page.
- Description: Written in medium small Maghribī in black ink, with larger script for headings. Thick cream paper with laid and chain lines visible. Water damage affecting mainly the upper part of the leaves, with loss of text. Margins worm-eaten.
- Origin: Copy completed in Ṣafar 598 (colophon, fol. 172a).
- Incipit: قال الفقيه الحافظ ابو علي الحسين ... الغسانى رضى الله عنه الحمد لله رب العالمين والعاقبة للمتقين(؟) وصلى الله على ... اما بعد يرحمك الله فانك سالتنى ان اجمع لك ما اشتبه عليك مما
- Binding Note
- Later type II (with flap) binding in brown leather over paper pasteboards. Gold- and blind-tooled. Central roundel with some gold-stamping, cornerpiece stamping and tooling with a decorative edging. Apparently 14th/15th cent. Paper doublure. Rebacked. Edges mended. Traces of a now wanting envelope flap.
Discovery Information
- Subject
- Hadith—Authorities—Dictionaries—Early works to 1800
- Bukhārī, Muḥammad ibn Ismāʻīl 810-870—Jāmiʻ al-ṣaḥīḥ
- Muslim ibn al-Ḥajjāj al-Qushayrī approximately 821-875—Jāmiʻ al-ṣaḥīḥ
- Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
- Dictionaries
- Autographs
- Blind tooled bindings
- Gold tooled bindings
- Certificates
Physical Characteristics
- File Count
- 350
Institutional Information
- Collection
- Manuscripts of the Islamic World
- IIIF Manifest URL
-
https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/d19b1b48-b303-4a61-a728-5089e365b7f2/manifest


























