Collection ID: 0016 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Ashraf al-wasāʼil ilá fahm al-Shamāʼil
اشرف الوسائل الى فهم الشمائل

Authors

• Ibn Ḥajar al-Haythamī, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad, approximately 1503-approximately 1566
  ابن حجر الهيثمي، احمد بن محمد،

Other related names

• Wāqāʼī, Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Fattāḥ, active 1655, scribe
  واقائي، محمد بن عبد الفتاح،
• Williams, Talcott, 1849-1928, former owner

Call number

Penn Museum 29-201-706
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9977571427703681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1113869342
• http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0016/html/29_201_706.html

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Arabic

Origin

Date

1065 A.H. (1655)

Summary

Neatly written copy of a commentary on al-Tirmidhī's al-Shamāʼil; some leaves may be missing.

Notes

• Title from introduction (f. [1]v).
   
• Modern foliation in pencil added every tenth leaf, upper left recto [1]-[48], 50-[271]; catchwords every verso, lower left.
   
• Some owner's notations on f. 1r-1v.
   
• Dimensions of original manuscript: 200 x 146 (150 x 105) mm bound to 200 x 160 mm.
   
• European laid paper with trelune design.
   
• Some gathering markers have not been entirely trimmed off, upper outer recto.
   

Extent

1 online resource (iv, 270, iv leaves)

Binding

Bound in brown leather over pasteboard with flap (Type II); blind stamped frame and fore-edge decorations of vines and flowers; blind stamped central mandorla connected to the outer frame along the vertical axis by a set of double lines; plain paper pastedowns cut into a scalloped and pointed design along the fore-edge. Title written onto bottom edge.

Layout

Written in 23 long lines.

Decoration

Rubrications in red.

Script

Written in naskh in black ink; pointed.

Provenance

• Acquired during the Expedition in Morocco by Talcott Williams and Sophia Wells Royce Williams, 1898.
   

Subjects topical

• Hadith--Criticism, interpretation, etc.--Early works to 1800
• Religious life--Islam--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Fascimiles
• Notes (documents)
• Islamic bindings (Binding)
• Full covers
• Envelope flaps (features)
• Blind tooled (decoration)
• Manuscripts, 17th century
• Manuscripts, Arabic

Licenses

• Text

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Decorations

• Flyleaf 4 verso — Notations
• Flyleaf 4 verso — Notations