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هدية الاخوان في شجرة الدخان / محمد مرتضى الحسيني.
Hadīyat al-ikhwān fī shajarat al-dukhān / Muḥammad Murtaḍá al-Ḥusaynī.
1876
A treatise on the tobacco plant, its characteristics and benefits and its status in Muslim law.
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- Publisher
- 1293 [1876 or 1877]
- People
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- Author
- Murtaḍá al-Zabīdī, Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, 1732 or 1733-1791
- مرتضى الزبيدي، محمد بن محمد، 1732 or 1733-1791
- Related Name
- Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 955Hq
- Language
- Arabic
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Item Summary
A treatise on the tobacco plant, its characteristics and benefits and its status in Muslim law.
Descriptive Information
- Title
- هدية الاخوان في شجرة الدخان / محمد مرتضى الحسيني.
- Transliterated Title
- Hadīyat al-ikhwān fī shajarat al-dukhān / Muḥammad Murtaḍá al-Ḥusaynī.
- Call Number
- Oversize Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 955Hq
- Identifier
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dctt44pz143
- Publisher
- 1293 [1876 or 1877]
- Language
- Arabic
- Date Created
- 1876
- Format
- Manuscript
- Extent
- 14 leaves : paper ; 245 x 170 (180 x 90) mm.
- Provenance
- Ownership signature: Ramaḍān (fol. 1a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
- Source Acquisition
- Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
- References
- Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1858.
- Jabartī, ʻAjāʼib al- Āthār (1297 AH), II, p. 204.
- Rights Statement
- Copyright Not Evaluated
- Notes
- Ms. codex.
- Title from title page (fol. 1a).
- Marginal notes and glosses. Inscriptions on title page. According to the ending, composed in 1191/1777.
- Collation: Paper ; fol. 14 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
- Layout: 17 lines per page ; ruled.
- Description: Rubricated ; watermarks (shield with a face-in-the-moon, roman-alphabet letters "AG") ; MS in fair condition.
- Origin: According to colophon copy completed 1293 by ʻĪsá Muḥammad (fol. 14b).
- Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله ذي الفضل والاسان ... اما بعد فهذه نبذة صغيرة التمس مني تأليفها بعض الاخوان فيما يتعلق بشجرة الدخان ...
- Colophon: م. على يد کاتبها الفقيرالى الله تعالى عيسى محمد عفي عنه آمين. سنة 1293
- Binding Note
- Unbound.
Discovery Information
Physical Characteristics
- File Count
- 28
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/6f9fcc20-b59c-49d4-97e3-a113c76c8bed/manifest