Item Summary

An abridgment of Nawawī's A biographical dictionary of illustrious men, chiefly at the beginning of Islam.

Descriptive Information

Title
هذا تلخيص لطيف من تهذيب الاسماء واللغات.
Transliterated Title
Hādhā Talkhīṣ laṭīf min Tahdhīb al-asmāʼ wa-al-lughāt.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 197H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcqr46r9616
Language
Arabic
Format
Manuscript
Extent
60 leaves : paper ; 213 x 158 (150 x 117) mm. bound to 212 x 160 mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 716.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Collation: Paper ; fol. 60 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Description: Rubricated ; MS in fair condition.
Layout: 31 lines per page.
MS is covered with marginal glosses which together with the seven folios following the colophon contain excerpts from Mirʼāt al-janān of al-Yāfiʻī, 768 [1366]. The remaining two folios contain excerpts from the history of Ibn Shuhbah 779-851 [1377/8-1447/8]. Title page is also full of historic excerpts.
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
Colophon: نقل جميعه من اماکن من تهذيب الاسماء واللغات للعلامة شيخ الاسلام ابو زکريا يحيى النووي رضي الله عنه ونفعنا بعلمه والحمد لله وحده. انتهى
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم ذکر نسب رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم هو محمد بن عبد الله بن عبد المطلب ...
Binding Note
Later type III (without flap) binding in red leather and brown marbled paper.

Discovery Information

Subject
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Muslims—Biography—Early works to 1800
Islamic Empire—History—Early works to 1800

Physical Characteristics

File Count
168

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

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