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Title

Kitāb al-Istīʻāb fī asmāʼ al-madhkūrīn fī al-riwāyāt wa-sāʼir al-āthār wa-al-muṣannafāt mimman ṣaḥaba al-Nabī.
كتاب الاستيعاب في أسماء المذكورين في الروايات وسائر الآثار والمصنفات ممن صحب النبي

Authors

• Ibn ʻAbd al-Barr, Yūsuf ibn ʻAbd Allāh, 978 or 979-1071
  ابن عبد البر، يوسف بن عبد الله،

Other related names

• Hāshimī, Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd Allāh ibn ʻAbd al-Mālik al-Ḥasanī, former owner
  هاشمي، محمد بن محمد بن عبد الله بن عبد المالك الحسني.
• Jastrow, Marcus, 1829-1903, former owner
• Jastrow, Morris, Jr., 1861-1921, former owner

Call number

Oversize Ms. Codex 26 v.1
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9914691843503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122528579

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Arabic

Origin

Date

A.H. 1085 (1674)

Place

North Africa?

Summary

A copy in two volumes, in good condition, of Ibn ʻAbd al-Barr's compilation of companions of the Prophet Muḥammad.

Notes

• Title from title page of volume 1 (f. 1r).
   

Extent

2 volumes (218, 220 leaves) : 296 x 208 (225 x 155) mm bound to 295 x 220 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation added in pencil, upper left recto; catchwords every verso, lower left.

Support

Paper

Binding

Both volumes bound in the same way. Red leather over pasteboard with flap (Type II) with a large, blind stamped central mandorla and a blind tooled frame with knotwork pattern. Flap has coordinating frame and stamp. Doublure of covers and flap is plain, laid paper cut in a scalloped shape along one edge. Blue and white endbands. Title written on the bottom edge of each volume.

Layout

25 long lines; frame-ruled.

Decoration

Rubrications in red and brown (the brown may once have been red). The first opening of volume 2 has double border rules in red and a red and black medallion in the margin; the heading is also set off by red rules (f. 1v-2r).

Script

Written in maghribi in dark brown ink; pointed, unvocalized.

Provenance

• Formerly owned by Muḥammad al-Hāshimī ibn Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd Allāh ibn ʻAbd al-Mālik al-Ḥasanī (inscription and stamp on f. 1r of both volumes).
   
• Formerly owned by Marcus Jastrow and Morris Jastrow, Jr.
   
• Accessioned, 1934.
   

Subjects topical

• Hadith--Authorities--Early works to 1800
• Hadith--Authorities
• Friends and associates

Genres

• Early works
• Manuscripts, Arabic--17th century
• Codices (bound manuscripts)
• Stamps (Provenance)

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Kitāb al-Istīʻāb fī asmāʼ al-madhkūrīn fī al-riwāyāt wa-sāʼir al-āthār wa-al-muṣannafāt mimman ṣaḥaba al-Nabī

Decorations

• fol. 1r — Stamp
• fol. 1r — Owner's notations