Item Summary

The second volume of a biographical dictionary. It contains the lives of 189 shaykhs.

Descriptive Information

Title
[كتاب تراجم].
Transliterated Title
[Kitāb Tarājim].
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 210H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dck0698j331
Publisher
5 Ṣafar 1091 [March 12, 1680]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1680
Format
Manuscript
Extent
259 leaves : paper ; 208 x 152 (160 x 100) mm bound to 204 x 146 mm.
Provenance
Fol. 1a has the signature of Muḥammad al-Maṣmūdī ibn ʻAbd al-Laṭīf. Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 691.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Front pastedown records death dates for several people. Fol. 1a has some obliterated text and some numbers. Following the colophon is a short addition. On the next folio are a diagram and some numerals.
Collation: Paper ; fol. 259 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 23 lines per page.
Description: Rubricated ; watermarks (crown) ; MS in fair condition, binding loose and in poor condition.
Origin: According to colophon copied Wednesday 5 Ṣafar 1091 by Aḥmad ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Aḥmad Bakkār (fol. 259a).
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وصلى على سيدنا محمد ومولانا محمد. ابو حبيب سعيد بن محمد بن سحنون ...
Colophon: فرغ من نسخه يوم الاربعاء بعد صلاة العصر لخمس خلون [من] صفر عام 1091 (؟) کاتبه فقير عفو ربه ... من تراکم ذنبه والمتوسل الى الله بنبيه محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم ان يغفر له ما مضا [مضى] ويصلح له ما بقي هو وذريته احمد بن ابراهيم بن احمد بکار غفر الله له ولوالديه ولجميع المسلمين. وجد بآخر النسخة التي نسخنا منها عدد اشياخ السفر الثاني ماية وتسعة وثمانون شيخا نفعنا الله بهم. تم
Binding Note
Contemporaneous? type III (without flap) binding in brown leather. Blind-stamped mandorla with pendants and blind-tooled edging.

Discovery Information

Subject
Muslim scholars—Biography—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Blind tooled bindings
Autographs
Watermarks

Physical Characteristics

File Count
528

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/532833f0-8f64-47e1-a94e-5468da9f00ab/manifest