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[كتا]ب طبقات المحدثين [من] الحفاظ والمجتهدين / جلال الدين عبد الرحمن بن ابي بكر السيوطي.
[Kitā]b Ṭabaqāt al-muḥaddithīn [min] al-ḥuffāẓ wa-al-mujtahidīn / Jalāl al-Dīn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abī Bakr al-Suyūṭī.
1705
The lives of eminent men who were the guardians of traditions and preserved them in memory, and of those who used the method of analogy, commencing with the Companions of the Prophet and concluding with Abū al-Faḍl Aḥmad ibn Ḥajar 773-853 [1372-1450]. It is an abridgment of the Ṭabaqāt al-ḥuffāẓ of al-Dhahabī, 748 [1347/8].
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- Related Name
- يمني، محمد بن جابر، active 18th century
- Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 200H
- Language
- Arabic
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Item Summary
The lives of eminent men who were the guardians of traditions and preserved them in memory, and of those who used the method of analogy, commencing with the Companions of the Prophet and concluding with Abū al-Faḍl Aḥmad ibn Ḥajar 773-853 [1372-1450]. It is an abridgment of the Ṭabaqāt al-ḥuffāẓ of al-Dhahabī, 748 [1347/8].
Descriptive Information
- Title
- [كتا]ب طبقات المحدثين [من] الحفاظ والمجتهدين / جلال الدين عبد الرحمن بن ابي بكر السيوطي.
- Transliterated Title
- [Kitā]b Ṭabaqāt al-muḥaddithīn [min] al-ḥuffāẓ wa-al-mujtahidīn / Jalāl al-Dīn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abī Bakr al-Suyūṭī.
- Call Number
- Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 200H
- Identifier
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcx920g668g
- Language
- Arabic
- Date Created
- 1705
- Format
- Manuscript
- Extent
- (1), 145, (1) leaves : paper ; 205 x 150 (153 x 105) mm. bound to 205 x 156 mm.
- Provenance
- Title page has a number of obliterated or partially obscured owner signatures and seal impressions including: ʻAbd al-Karīm ibn Yūsuf al-Anṣārī, and Muḥamad Khālid ... dated 1195 [1780/81]. There is also an obscured tughra. Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
- Source Acquisition
- Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
- References
- Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), IV, p. 134.
- Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 699.
- Pertsch, Die orientalischen handschriften der Herzoglichen bibliothek zu Gotha, 1760.
- Rights Statement
- Copyright Not Evaluated
- Notes
- Collation: Paper ; fol. (1) + 145 + (1) ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
- Description: Rubricated ; watermarks ; MS in fair condition but several folios are worm-eaten and some are mended, and some are loose. MS is legible despite extensive staining. MS is rare.
- Layout: 25 lines per page.
- Marginal notes. The number of each traditionist is written opposite his name. Kabīkaj (invocation against bookworks) on title page.
- Ms. codex.
- Origin: According to colophon copied Friday 29 Jumādá I 1117 by Muḥammad ibn Jābir al-Yamanī in al-Madīnah (fol. 145a-b).
- Title from title page (fol. 1a).
- Colophon: وکان تمام رقمه من اوله الى آخره على يد العبد الفقير الى الله تعالى محمد جابر اليمني غفر الله ذنوبه وستر عيوبه بمنه وکرمه امين. اسألك اللهم بجاه سيد الاحباب ... وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد واله وصحبه وسلم
- Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم ... الحمد لله الذي انعم فاجزل
- Binding Note
- Later type II (with flap) binding in red leather and black textured paper.
Physical Characteristics
- File Count
- 306
Institutional Information
- Collection
- Princeton’s Holdings of the al-Madani Library
- Manuscripts of the Islamic World
- IIIF Manifest URL
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https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/bb309639-6104-4fdb-90c1-02736d0eab9f/manifest