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كتاب بحر الفوايد / تأليف ابي بكر محمد بن ابراهيم الكلاباذي
Kitāb Baḥr al-fawāyid / taʼlīf Abī Bakr Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Kalābādhī
1200-1299
Item Summary
A collection of traditions. The original work contained 222 traditions. This fragment comprises 127 traditions (1-85 and 106-147). The work is also known as Maʻānī al-akhbār.
Descriptive Information
- Title
- كتاب بحر الفوايد / تأليف ابي بكر محمد بن ابراهيم الكلاباذي
- Transliterated Title
- Kitāb Baḥr al-fawāyid / taʼlīf Abī Bakr Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Kalābādhī
- Call Number
- Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 747H
- Identifier
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcth83m936r
- Language
- Arabic
- Date Created
- 1200-1299
- Extent
- 169 leaves : paper ; 210 x 144 (156 x 110) mm bound to 207 x 152 mm.
- Provenance
- Ownership signatures obscured by repairs on folio 1. Seal impression at bottom of folio 69a. Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
- Source Acquisition
- Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
- References
- Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1368.
- Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), II, p. 20.
- Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, I, p. 275.
- Rights Statement
- Copyright Not Evaluated
- Notes
- Ms. codex.
- Title from title page (fol. 1a).
- Marginal notes. MS lacking a number of folios in the middle and incomplete at the end. Samʻ certificate on title page.
- Collation: Paper ; fol. 169 ; quires signed: 2-21 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
- Layout: 19 lines per page ; frame-ruled in red.
- Description: Vowel signs ; ḥadīth numbers in red ink ; MS in good condition. Some repairs. MS is rare.
- Decoration: Illuminated title page. Title in square framed with gold and blue lines with gold and black cloud and floral fill with blue highlights.
- Origin: Probably from early XIII century.
- Ending: ان تقدم زمان انفاقه وقتاله فله فضيلة سبق الزمان الذي لا يلام
- Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الصلاه والتسليم علي سيدنا محمد اخبرنا الامام الا[ديب] العالم ابو نصر محمد بن عبد الله بن احمد الارغياني ...
- Binding Note
- Later type II (with flap) binding in red leather. Blind-stamped mandorla with pendants and blind-tooled frame and edging on covers. Similar decoration on flap. Blue marbled paper pastedowns. Not currently sewn.
Discovery Information
Physical Characteristics
- File Count
- 352
Institutional Information
- Collection
- Manuscripts of the Islamic World
- IIIF Manifest URL
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https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/2020d357-1e9e-45fd-b90b-bdbfe1f94d1d/manifest




















