Item Summary

Commentary on al-Shamāʼil al-Nabawīyah by Muḥammad ibn ʻĪsá al-Tirmidhī (d. 892), completed according to the text at the beginning of Rabīʻ al-Thānī 1037 (1627) -- fol. 95b.

Descriptive Information

Title
كتاب بهجة المحافل واجمل الوسائل بالتعريف برواة الشمائل / تأليف شيخ الاسلام ابراهيم اللقاني ... .
Transliterated Title
Kitāb Bahjat al-maḥāfil wa-ajmal al-wasāʼil bi-al-taʻrīf bi-ruwāt al-shamāʼil / taʼlīf Shaykh al-Islām Ibrāhīm al-Laqānī ... .
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 493Y
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/v979v567x
Publisher
[1635]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1635
Format
Manuscript
Extent
95 leaves : paper ; 216 x 155 (155 x 101) mm. bound to 218 x 163 mm.
Provenance
Originally acquired by Robert Garrett from Abraham Shalom Yahuda ; 1942.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Mach, R. Yahuda, 4499.
Brockelmann, C. GAL, I, 170 (II/cmt. 8).
Brockelmann, C. GAL, SI, 269 (II/cmt. 8).
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from fol. 1a.
29 lines per page. Written in small naskh in black ink with occasional use of red. European glazed paper. Few marginal annotations. Modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Copied by Muḥammad ibn Dāwūd ibn Sulaymān al-ʻAnnābī [?] on the 26th of Shawwāl 1044 -- colophon (fol. 95b).
Incipit: بسم الله ... يقول العبد الفقير الحقير ابو الامداد الفاني ابراهيم المالكي اللقاني الحمد لله الذي اصطفى لنقل السنة المحمدية
Explicit: وكان تمام ترقيمه والفراغ من تقديمه غرة ربيع الثاني من شهور السنة السابعة والثلاثين بعد الالف من الهجرة ... وحسبنا الله ونعم الوكيل انهاه جامعه الحقير ابراهيم اللقاني ... امين امين
Binding Note
Leather over pasteboard. Envelope flap. Blind tooled central mandorla on upper cover and blind flower stamps in the center of lower cover.

Discovery Information

Subject
Tirmidhī, Muḥammad ibn ʻĪsá -892—Shamāʼil
ترمذي، محمد بن عيسى—شمائل
Muḥammad Prophet -632—Biography—Early works to 1800
Hadith—Commentaries—Early works to 1800
Hadith—Criticism, interpretation, etc—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton

Physical Characteristics

File Count
100

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/acee5114-3f49-4adf-937b-07034c4723e1/manifest