Item Summary

Lives of eminent doctors of Muslim law, arranged chronologically from the time of the Companions until 780 [1378/9].

Descriptive Information

Title
كتاب طبقات الفقهاء الكبرى / محمد بن عبد الرحمن بن الحسين الخطيب العثماني.
Transliterated Title
Kitāb Ṭabaqāt al-fuqahāʼ al-kubrá / Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Khaṭīb al-ʻUthmānī.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 202H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcpr76fd23w
Language
Arabic
Format
Manuscript
Extent
163 leaves : paper ; 266 x 188 (190 x 135) mm. bound to 266 x 195 mm.
Provenance
Ownership signatures include: Shaykhʹzādah (fol. 7a), Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Shawṭī, Mawlā Bā al-Saʻadī Ḥalabī, Sulaymān together with his seal impression, and Mīr Ḥasan al-Zuhdī ibn Khalīl Bāshā and his seal impression reading "fa-tabāraka Allāh aḥsan al-khāliqīn" (fol. 11a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Catalogue des manuscrits arabes de la Bibliothèque Nationale, 2093.
Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), IV, pp. 144, 149, 151.
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 692.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Collation: Paper ; fol. i + 163 + ii ; catchwords ; quires signed 2-15 ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Description: Rubricated ; vowel signs ; watermarks (three crescents) ; MS in good condition. MS is rare.
Layout: 21 lines per page.
Marginal notes and glosses; marginal summaries in red. On the folios before the title page occur a table of contents (fol. 1b-5b), a statement about the author, another that this copy was written by the author himself (fol. 7a) and a summary of the contents (fol. 10a). Title page has several additions and some erasures. There is also a paragraph about the birth of Fāṭimah bint Muḥammad ibn Nāṣib al-Dīn Muḥammad on 3 Rajab 943 in Ḥalab with an addendum on her death on 10 Dhū al-Ḥijjah 950. The three folios after the colophon have an essay and a poem.
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 11a).
Colophon: فرغت من جمعه ليلة الاحد حادي عشر شعبان المکرم سنة ست وسبعين وسبعماية نفع الله به امين امين امين الحمد لله رب العالمين وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد وعلى اله وصحبه اجمعين حسبنا الله ونعم الوکيل
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم. الحمد لله الذي انعم فاسنى
Binding Note
Later? type II (with flap) binding in maroon leather. Gold floral design painted on covers. Gold painted frame and edging on covers and flap. Gilt design on all three edges. Pink pastedowns and flyleaves.

Discovery Information

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

Physical Characteristics

File Count
343

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/351befdb-11eb-4f0d-96f6-c303006d2b98/manifest