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كتاب اللكتفاء.
Kitāb al-lktifāʼ.
Vols. I and II of al-Iktifāʼ fī Maghāzī Rasūl Allāh, being a history of the conquests of the Prophet and the first three caliphs, beginning with the genealogy of the Prophet and closing with the departure of ʻAbd Allāh ibn Ḥudhāfah with a letter from the Prophet to Kisrá [Khusraw Parwīz] [590-628].
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- Related Name
- Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 218H
- Language
- Arabic
- Notes
- Collation: Paper ; fol. 213 + (1), 216 + (1) ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
- Decoration: Elaborate illuminated headpiece with vignette in red, gold and blue in both volumes. Headpiece in volume 1 carries the author's name, in vol. 2 "ghazwat Badr al-kubrá". Illuminated colophons in both volumes with vignettes in red, gold and blue. In both volumes, opening folios and colophons frame-ruled in gold and blue.
- Description: Rubricated ; watermarks ; MS in good condition but some folios are worm-eaten and there is some staining. MS is rare.
- Layout: 20 lines per page ; frame-ruled in red and blue.
- Marginal notes and glosses.
- Ms. codex.
- Title from colophon (vol. 1, fol. 213a).
- Colophon: انتهى الجزء الثاني من کتاب الاکتفاء بحمد الله تعالى وحسن عونه ىتلوه ان شاء الله في الجزء الثالث اسلام النجاشي
- Incipit: بسم الله ... قال الشىخ الامام العالم الهمام ابو الربىع
- Binding Note
- Type III (without flap) binding in red leather. Blind-stamped mandorla and gold-tooled edging. Multi-colored endbands.
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Item Summary
Vols. I and II of al-Iktifāʼ fī Maghāzī Rasūl Allāh, being a history of the conquests of the Prophet and the first three caliphs, beginning with the genealogy of the Prophet and closing with the departure of ʻAbd Allāh ibn Ḥudhāfah with a letter from the Prophet to Kisrá [Khusraw Parwīz] [590-628].
Descriptive Information
- Title
- كتاب اللكتفاء.
- Transliterated Title
- Kitāb al-lktifāʼ.
- Call Number
- Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 218H
- Identifier
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcv692th02z
- Language
- Arabic
- Format
- Manuscript
- Extent
- 2 volumes (213, (1), 216, (1)) leaves : paper ; 253 x 182 (175 x 113) mm. bound to 252 x 173 mm.
- Provenance
- Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
- Source Acquisition
- Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
- References
- Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 9575.
- Catalogue des manuscrits arabes de la Bibliothèque Nationale, 1568/9.
- Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), I, pp. 387/8.
- Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 639.
- Pertsch, Die orientalischen handschriften der Herzoglichen bibliothek zu Gotha, 2¹.
- Rights Statement
- Copyright Not Evaluated
- Notes
- Collation: Paper ; fol. 213 + (1), 216 + (1) ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
- Decoration: Elaborate illuminated headpiece with vignette in red, gold and blue in both volumes. Headpiece in volume 1 carries the author's name, in vol. 2 "ghazwat Badr al-kubrá". Illuminated colophons in both volumes with vignettes in red, gold and blue. In both volumes, opening folios and colophons frame-ruled in gold and blue.
- Description: Rubricated ; watermarks ; MS in good condition but some folios are worm-eaten and there is some staining. MS is rare.
- Layout: 20 lines per page ; frame-ruled in red and blue.
- Marginal notes and glosses.
- Ms. codex.
- Title from colophon (vol. 1, fol. 213a).
- Colophon: انتهى الجزء الثاني من کتاب الاکتفاء بحمد الله تعالى وحسن عونه ىتلوه ان شاء الله في الجزء الثالث اسلام النجاشي
- Incipit: بسم الله ... قال الشىخ الامام العالم الهمام ابو الربىع
- Binding Note
- Type III (without flap) binding in red leather. Blind-stamped mandorla and gold-tooled edging. Multi-colored endbands.
Physical Characteristics
- File Count
- 2
Institutional Information
- Collection
- Princeton’s Holdings of the al-Madani Library
- Manuscripts of the Islamic World
- IIIF Manifest URL
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https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/25a89604-aeed-4186-83d4-eb0506ab03b1/manifest