Princeton University, Islamic Manuscripts Garrett no. 392B
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS26733
- Shelfmark:
- Islamic Manuscripts Garrett no. 392B
- Title:
- Collection of Arabic texts
- Date:
- 1200-1299
- Language:
- ara
- Note:
- Fols. 112; 18 x 13.5 cm.; written surface 14-15 x 8-10 cm.; 10-19 lines to page; on glazed Arabic paper; in naskhi; with catchwords.
A collection containing:
1. Bidāyah min al-Kifāyah, by Aḥmad ibn Maḥmūd al-Ṣābūnī, an abridgment by the author of his own work on metaphysics which is entitled al-Kifāyah fī al-Hidāyah. MS incomplete at the end. Probably from XIIIth century.
2. Several legal questions and their answers relating to the mortmain property of Abraham in Hebron by Ibn Ḥajar al-ʻAsqalānī, A.H. 852 [A.D. 1449]. MS probably from XVIIth century.
3. A correspondence between Abū Ṭāhir Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Salafī, A.H. 576 [A.D. 1180] and al-Zamakhsharī, A.H. 538 [A D. 1144]. MS probably from XIVth century.
4. A fragment of a work on the lives of the ascetic. This contains the lives of Abū Yazīd al-Bisṭāmī, A.H. 261 [A.D. 875] and al-Ḥallāj, A.H. 309 [A.D. 922].
5. Ḥadīth inshiqāq al-qamar, the tradition of ʻthe splitting of the moonʼ (Sūrah LIV:1). MS probably from XVth century.
Marginal notes. MS in fair condition; Arabic binding with flap.
Acquired from Bārūdī, Beirūt, A.D. 1925. - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/9963584613506421
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