Item Summary

A work on the principal mortal sins. Seventy such sins are discussed after which follows a section on the virtues of the Companions of Muḥammad and the first four caliphs.

Descriptive Information

Title
كتاب تذكرة اولي البصاير في معرفة الكباير / تأليف ابن الجوزي.
Transliterated Title
Kitāb Tadhkirat ūlī al-baṣāyir fī maʻrifat al-kabāyir / taʼlīf Ibn al-Jawzī.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 1057H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcsq87c629n
Publisher
Rabīʻ al-Akhir 976 [October 1568]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1568
Format
Manuscript
Extent
190 leaves : paper ; 212 x 154 (149 x 92) mm bound to 207 x 155 mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1896.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 4a).
A few marginal notes. Table of contents (fol. 1b-3a). Title page illuminated with color. A part of the colophon is lacking because the last folio is defective.
Collation: Paper ; fol. 190 ; catchwords ; foliation in ink using Hindu-Arabic numerals ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 17 lines per page ; frame-ruled in red.
Description: Rubricated ; watermarks (anchor topped with a star) ; MS in fair condition, stained with dampness.
Decoration: Title page illuminated with framing in gold? and red. Inner frame containing the title has cloud background in gold?
Origin: According to colophon copy completed Thursday Rabīʻ al-Akhir 976 (fol. 190a).
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله بارئ البريات وغافر الخطيات ... اما بعد فقد قال الله عزوجل في کتابه العزيز خطابا لعباده وتفهيما ...
Colophon: ... وافق الفراغ من نسخه نهار الخميس شهر ربيع الاخر سنة ست وسبعون [سبعين] وتسعمائة على يد العبد
Binding Note
Later type II (with flap) binding in red leather. Blind-stamped mandorla with pendants and cornerpieces and blind-tooled decorative edging on covers. Similar decorationon flap. Cover possibly re-used as spine and flap fore-edge are both replacements of brown leather..

Discovery Information

Subject
Sin—Islam—Early works to 1800
Muḥammad Prophet -632—Biography—Early works to 1800
Caliphs—Biography—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
illuminated manuscripts
Blind tooled bindings
Watermarks

Physical Characteristics

File Count
392

Institutional Information

Collection
Princeton’s Holdings of the al-Madani Library
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/4d3ce839-f5dc-45e3-b2f0-b7a8d38bd833/manifest