Princeton University, Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 227H.

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DS ID:

DS2703

Shelfmark:

Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 227H.

Title:

al-Juzʼ al-awwal min Sīrat al-Ḥalabī

Date:

1162 1748 or 1749

eighteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 2 volumes (266, 326) leaves : paper ; 206-211 x 142-155 (160 x 105) mm. bound to 205-214 x 155-163 mm.

Note:

Collation: Paper ; fol. (2) + 266 + (1), (1) + 326 + (3) ; catchwords ; foliated in ink using Hindu-Arabic numerals in upper right hand corner ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Description: Rubricated ; important words underlined in red ; watermarks (grapes) ; MS in fair condition but several folios are worm-eaten.
Layout: 29 lines per page.
Marginal notes and glosses. After colophon in vol. 2 is a partially obscured inscription and a reading statement dated 25 Jumādá I 1193 6/10/1779. On a folio after the colophon is a statement about the Prophet, his virtues and his work.
Ms. codex.
Origin: According to colophon copied 1162 by Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Arīḥāwī, known as Shāriḥ al-Kanz (vol. 2, fol. 326a).
Title from title page (vol. 1, fol. 1a).
The title page of both volumes have the ownership signature of Muḥammad ibn Saʻīd ibn al-Sharīf Surūr, other obscured ownership signatures and a seal impression. Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Keyword:

Autographs (Provenance)

Biographies

Stamps

Watermarks

Early works

Blind tooled bindings

Manuscripts, Arabic

Muḥammad, Prophet, -632

New Jersey--Princeton

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/9963572763506421

IIIF Manifest:

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/60806c66-4629-485e-b1a0-e69d3aadfc6e/manifest

Holding Institution:

Princeton University