Item Summary

A short description of the Prophet; the names of his wives and children; a description of the first four caliphs, six of the close companions, and of al-Ḥasan and al-Ḥusayn.

Descriptive Information

Title
هذا شرح لطيف المصحح في صفة سيد المرسلين والعشرة المبشرة والحسن والحسين وعدد زوجاته صلى الله عليه وسلم وعدد اولاده وجداته واسماء اصحاب الكهف على القول الاصحح / علي المنصوري بن سليمان بن عبد الله المقرئ.
Transliterated Title
Hādhā Sharḥ laṭīf al-muṣaḥḥaḥ fī ṣifat Sayyid al-Mursalīn wa-al-ʻasharah al-mubashsharah wa-al-Ḥasan wa-al-Ḥusayn wa-ʻadad zawajātihi ṣallá Allāh ʻalayhi wa-sallam wa-ʻadad awlādihi wa-jaddātihi wa-asmāʼ aṣḥāb al-kahf ʻalá al-qawl al-aṣḥaḥḥ / ʻAlī al-Manṣūrī ibn Sulaymān ibn ʻAbd Allāh al-Muqriʼ.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 232H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dccc08hr797
Language
Arabic
Extent
(1), 6, (3) leaves : paper ; 195 x 138 (162 x 85) mm. bound to 197 x 140 mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 659.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Collation: Paper ; fol. (1) + 6 + (3) ; catchwords ; foliated in ink using Hindu-Arabic numerals in upper-right hand corner as 264-269 ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Description: Rubricated ; watermarks (crown) ; MS in good condition.
Layout: 16 lines per page ; ruled.
Marginal notes. Evidently the size of the folios was larger. A later hand has cut the size down and in order to save the marginal notes folded the projecting parts over. Title page bears a note with the date of the authorʼs death.
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
Colophon: والحمد لله رب العالمين
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه ثقتي. الحمد لله رب العالمين
Binding Note
Later type III (without flap) binding in blue and red marbled paper.

Physical Characteristics

File Count
28

Institutional Information

Collection
Princeton’s Holdings of the al-Madani Library
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/58462c64-933e-499d-8abd-8eb67bbfef05/manifest