Princeton University, Islamic Manuscripts Garrett no. 239H

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DS ID:

DS26567

Shelfmark:

Islamic Manuscripts Garrett no. 239H

Title:

Kitāb al-Farāʼid fī maḥāsin al-fawāʼid / / كتاب الفرائد في محاسن الفوائد /

Author:

Minqār, Ṭālib ibn ʻAbd al-Qādir / منقار، طالب بن عبد القادر

Ṭālib ibn ʻAbd al-Qādir Minqār WIKIDATA

Date:

1799

eighteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

ara

Arabic WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 77 leaves : paper ; 208 x 150 (175 x 110 and 185 x 115) mm. bound to 208 x 160 mm.

Note:

Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
The title on the title page is from a later hand. There is no mention of a title in the text itself. The name of the author appears at the beginning of the text (fol. 1b).
On the title page (fol. 1a), there is a table of contents mentioning titles of works which are said to be included in the ms, though most of these works are not.
Number of lines per page varies (from 20 to 33). Written in black ink in a casual small to medium small naskh. Fol. 1 and 2a are modern replacements. Magical squares and talismans (see fol. 47b-49a). Marginal notes. On fol. 1a : several ownership statements ; seal of Muḥammad Saʻīd al-Minqār. Foliation using Arabic numerals on fol. 1-56. Modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals. The...
Copied on 1 Muḥarram 1214 ("fī ghurrat Muḥarram sanah 1214" [June 1799], colophon text 1, fol. 56a).
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900, from the books of Amīn ibn Ḥasan al-Hulwānī al-Madanī al-Ḥanafī (Medina).

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Arabic

Eighteenth century

Islam--Customs and practices

Early works

Muḥammad, Prophet, -632

Families

Mustaches

Islam

New Jersey--Princeton

Talismans

Qurʼan

Islamic magic

Beards--Religious aspects--Islam

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/9948222763506421

IIIF Manifest:

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/1bfb6970-a135-4c71-8560-76114aca38ed/manifest

Holding Institution:

Princeton University