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كتاب لب اللباب في تحرير الانساب / لشيخنا خاتمة الحفاظ والمجتهدين جلال الدين ابي الفضل عبد الرحمن ابي العلامة كمال الدين السيوطي الشافعي.
Kitāb Lubb al-lubāb fī taḥrīr al-ansāb / li-Shaykhinā khātimat al-ḥuffāẓ wa-al-mujtahidīn Jalāl al-Dīn Abī al-Faḍl ʻAbd al-Raḥmān Abī al-ʻallāmah Kamāl al-Dīn al-Suyūṭī al-Shāfiʻī.
1524
Treatise on the patronymics of Arab families.
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Item Summary
Treatise on the patronymics of Arab families.
Descriptive Information
- Title
- كتاب لب اللباب في تحرير الانساب / لشيخنا خاتمة الحفاظ والمجتهدين جلال الدين ابي الفضل عبد الرحمن ابي العلامة كمال الدين السيوطي الشافعي.
- Transliterated Title
- Kitāb Lubb al-lubāb fī taḥrīr al-ansāb / li-Shaykhinā khātimat al-ḥuffāẓ wa-al-mujtahidīn Jalāl al-Dīn Abī al-Faḍl ʻAbd al-Raḥmān Abī al-ʻallāmah Kamāl al-Dīn al-Suyūṭī al-Shāfiʻī.
- Call Number
- Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 295H
- Identifier
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcdz0111351
- Publisher
- [1524]
- Language
- Arabic
- Date Created
- 1524
- Format
- Manuscript
- Extent
- i, 141 leaves : paper ; 181 x 133 (119 x 92) mm. bound to 181 x 145 mm.
- Provenance
- Several ownership statements on fol. 1a, signed Aḥmad ibn SHNūn ; Muḥammad Qābil ; al---lawī (dated 1028 or 1038 H. [1618-1629]) ; ʻUmar ibn Aḥmad ibn ʻAlī al-Ḥalabī al-Shammāʻ al-Shāfiʻī ; ʻUmar ibn Maḥmūd ibn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Baylūnī (Baylawī?) al-Ḥalabī al-Shāfiʻī ; ---? with seal impression. Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
- Several ownership statements on fol. 1a, signed Aḥmad ibn SHNūn ; Muḥammad Qābil ; al---lawī (dated 1028 or 1038 H. [1618-1629]) ; ʻUmar ibn Aḥmad ibn ʻAlī al-Ḥalabī al-Shammāʻ al-Shāfiʻī ; ʻUmar ibn Maḥmūd ibn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Baylūnī (Baylawī?) al-Ḥalabī al-Shāfiʻī ; ---? with seal. Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
- Source Acquisition
- Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
- References
- Hitti, P. Garrett coll., 293
- Shaybānī, M. Dalīl makhṭūṭāt al-Suyūṭī (1995), no. 627
- Iqbāl, A. al-Sharqāwī. Maktabat al-Jalāl al-Suyūṭī (1977), no. 561
- Rights Statement
- Copyright Not Evaluated
- Notes
- Ms. codex.
- Title from title page (fol. 1a). The same title without "Kitāb" appears in the preamble of the text (fol. 1b, l. 10).
- Marginal annotations. Title on the lower edge of the text block. Several inscriptions and ownership statements on the title page (fol. 1a).
- Collation: Paper ; fol. 141 ; 1¹⁰ (+1, before fol. 1) 2-13¹⁰ 14¹⁰ (+1, fol. 141) ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
- Layout: 19 lines per page.
- Description: Rubricated.
- Paper: Dark cream glazed paper with laid and chain lines visible.
- Origin: Copy completed on Sunday, the day before the last day [28?] of Jūmādá al-Ulá 930 [April 3, 1524] by Mūsá ibn ʻAbd al-Qādir al-Sunbulāwaynī al-Shāfiʻī, from a copy made from an autograph (colophon, fol. 141a).
- Incipit: الحمد لله المتنزه عن الاشباه والانساب واشهد ان لا اله الا الله وحده لا شريك له ... هذا ما اشتدت اليه حاجة المحدث اللبيب من مختصر في الانساب واف بالمقصود.
- Explicit: قال مؤلفه خاتمة الحفاظ والايمة المجتهدين جلال الدين ابو الفضل عبد الرحمن السيوطي الشافعي ... وهذا اخر الكتاب ولله الحمد قال مختصره عبد الرحمن بن ابي بكر السيوطي ... اختصرته في عشرة ايام متوالية اخرها يوم الاثنين سابع عشر صفر سنة ثلاث وسبعين وثمان ماية من نسخة صحيحة مقابلة على اصل ابن الاثير وفي اخرها ما نصه فرغ منه مؤلفه يوم الثلاثا لعشر باقين من جمادي الاولي سنة خمس عشرة وستمايه ... وقد استقصيت انا في هذا المختصر كثيرا مما فاتهما واستدركت منه جمعا جما وغالب ما زدته من معجم البلدان لياقوت الحموي رحمة الله تعالي عليهم اجمعين والحمد لله وحده ... وصحبه وسلم انتهي.
- Binding Note
- Type II (with flap) binding in brown leather over paper pasteboards. Both covers have a similar central blind-tooled and gold painted mandorla with two pendants on the vertical axis inscribed within a single gold painted fillet and an elaborate outer frame consisting of blind-tooled fillets and running patterns. The envelope flap has a similar frame with a smaller blind-tooled and gold painted motif on its pointe. Embossed leather doublure. Spine and fore-edge flap repaired.
Physical Characteristics
- File Count
- 296
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/0aaa99b6-3c8b-48d9-82a0-34817d4762ed/manifest