Item Summary

A collection of forty traditions.

Descriptive Information

Title
هذا كتاب عصفوري.
Transliterated Title
Hādhā Kitāb ʻUṣfūrī.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 754H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcv979vf34f
Publisher
[Turkey?], 25 R[abīʻah] I 1266 [February 8, 1850]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1850
Format
Manuscript
Extent
47 leaves : paper ; 212 x 139 (140 x 83) mm bound to 212 x 143 mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1443.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from caption (fol. before 1a).
A few marginal notes. The colophon is in Turkish. Inscriptions on upper flyleaves and folio 47a.
Collation: Paper ; fol. ii + 47 + i ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 19 lines per page.
Description: Rubricated ; watermarks (eagle with roman-alphabet letters "TSC"; other unidentified marks) ; MS in good condition.
Origin: According to colophon copied 25 R[abīʻah] I 1266 by Muṣṭafá in Mamlakat Ṭāshkubir Būnī (fol. 46a).
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله رب العالمين والعاقبة للمتقين ... وبعد فان العبد المذنب محمد بن ابي بکر رحمه الله عليه بعد طول حوضه في بحر الذنوب ...
Colophon: کتبه الفقيرالحقيرالعاصي مصطفى بمملکته طاشکبر بوني يازدم ياد کار او لمق ايجونردوقيان دکليان بردعاقلمق ايجون. تاريخ 25 ر[بيع] أ[ول] سنة 1266
Binding Note
Contemporaneous? type II (with flap) binding in red leather and blue and red marbled paper. Yellow paper pastedowns and flyleaves.

Discovery Information

Subject
Hadith—Texts—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Watermarks

Physical Characteristics

File Count
112

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/3c887c28-a57d-4971-89e5-e65d0fc69dc9/manifest