Item Summary

An essay on the characteristics and virtues of the Imām Abū Ḥanīfah 80-150 [699-767].

Descriptive Information

Title
هذا كتاب في مناقب الامام الاعظم ابي حنيفة بن ثابت النعمان.
Transliterated Title
Hādhā Kitāb fī manāqib al-Imām al-aʻẓam Abī Ḥanīfah ibn Thābit al-Nuʻmān.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 251H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcwh247335k
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1708
Extent
10 leaves : paper ; 204 x 150 (156 x 115) mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 718.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Anonymous.
Collation: Paper ; fol. 10 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Description: Rubricated ; watermarks (design with a crescent on top) ; MS in good condition but loose and two folios are worm-eaten and mended.
Layout: 25 lines per page ; ruled.
Marginal notes. On the title page occur the shahādah and a statement about a copy dated 900 [1494/5], probably the copy from which ours was made. Fol. 10 contains three anecdotes.
Ms. codex.
Origin: According to colophon copied Wednesday 17 Shaʻbān 1120 by al-Ḥasan ʻAlī Ḥasan (fol. 10a).
Title from heading (fol. 1a).
Colophon: وکان الفراغ من نقل هذه الرسالة في يوم الاربع المبارك سابع عشر شهرشعبان سنة الف وماية وعشرين على يد العبد الفقير الراجي عفو ربه الحسن علي حسن غفر الله [له] ولوالديه ولوالد[ي] والديه والمسلمين امين سنة 1120
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد واله
Binding Note
Unbound.

Physical Characteristics

File Count
24

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/1fd6659b-8f46-4ab7-b28f-18e9701896f8/manifest