الاول [الثالث] من كتاب التهذيب في اختصار كتاب التهذيب تهذيب الكمال في اسماء الرجال / جمع الشيخ الامام الحافظ ابي الحجج يوسف بن الزكي عبد الرحمن بن يوسف المزي الكلبي ... مما عني بجمعه باختصاره وتلخيصه الامام المحدث الحافظ شمس الدين ابو عبد الله محمد بن احمد بن عثمان الذهبي.
al-Awwal [al-thālith] min Kitāb al-Tahdhīb fī ikhtiṣār Kitāb al-Tahdhīb tahdhīb al-kamāl fī asmāʼ al-rijāl jamaʻa al-Shaykh al-Imām al-Ḥāfiẓ Abī al-Ḥujjaj Yūsuf ibn al-Zakī ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Yūsuf al-Mizzī al-Kalbī ... / mimmā ʻuniya bi-jamʻihi bi-ikhtiṣārihi wa-talkhīṣihi al-imām al-muḥaddith al-ḥāfiẓ Shams al-Dīn Abū ʻAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn ʻUthmān al-Dhahabī.

Collections:

Robert Garrett
Middle East Manuscripts
Princeton Digital Library of Islamic Manuscripts
Collections Donated to Princeton University Library

View in catalog:

https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/9950785623506421

Language:

Arabic

Creator:

Dhahabī, Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad, 1274-1348
ذهبي، محمد بن احمد

Call number:

Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 198H

Extent:

3 v. (ii, 277, ii + 304 + 319) leaves : paper ; 200 x 160 (148 x 120) mm.

Format:

Manuscript
Book

Description:

Ms. codex.
Title from vol. 1, fol. 1a ; vol. 2, fol. 1a (damaged) ; vol. 3, fol. 2a.
Mention "balagha" on the margins of vol. 1 (see fol. 2a). First fol. of vol. 2 damaged with loss of text. Title on the lower edge of the text block of vol. 2-3.
Collation vol. 1: Paper, fol. ii, 277, ii ; ii (later endleaves on European paper; inscription on fol. (i)a) 1¹⁰ ( -1, before fol. 1) 2-26¹⁰ 27¹⁰ ( -2, after fol. 277) ii (later endleaves on European paper) ; catchword on the verso of fol. 1-4 and 6, 10 of each quire ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Collation vol. 2: Paper, fol. 304 ; 1¹⁰ ( -1, before fol. 1) 2-29¹⁰ 30⁶ ( -1, after fol. 304) ; catchword on the verso of fol. 1-4 and 10 of each quire ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Collation vol. 3: Paper, fol. 319 ; 1-31¹⁰ 32¹⁰ ( -1, after fol. 319) ; catchword on the verso of fol. 1-4 and 10 of each quire ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 23 lines per page ; ruled.
Description: Rubricated.
Paper: Light cream paper with laid and chain lines visible.
Origin: Copy completed on 12 Ṣafar 813 by Muḥammad al-Warrāq (colophon, vol. 3, fol. 315a).
Incipit: الحمد لله العلي الكبير اللطيف الخبير الولي النصير السميع البصير واشهد ان لا اله ... اما بعد اسال الله التوفيق فهذا كتاب تهذيب الكمال في اسما الرجال من امره انه كتاب جامع كامل عديم المثل فارغ المونة.
Explicit: ازواج النبى صلى الله عليه وسلم ان يدخلن عليهن احد بتلك الرضاعة اخر الكتاب.

Publisher:

12 Ṣafar 813 [June 25, 1410]

Subject:

Mizzī, Yūsuf ibn al-Zakī ʿAbd al-Raḥmān 1256-1341—Tahdhīb al-Kamāl fī asmāʼ al-rijāl Abridgment
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Autographs (Provenance)
Leather doublures (Binding)
Gold tooled bindings (Binding)
Blind tooled bindings (Binding)

Spatial:

New Jersey

Binding note:

Vol. 2 and 3 are similarly bound with brown leather over paper pasteboards for upper and lower covers, fore-edge flap and envelope flap (the last two wanting in vol. 2). Both covers have a large elaborate border consisting of fillets and a large running pattern. The inner corners demarcated by fillets contain three impressions of a circular stamp with inscription in Arabic. Cental medallion of scalloped outline produced by three interlacing strapwork loops. The compartments defined by the loops are filled with gold dots and blind stamped rosettes. The envelope flap of vol. 3 apparently replacement, with an outer border consisting of fillets and small stamp with a floral motif on its point. Block-pressed leather doublure on vol. 2-3 (paper on fore-edge flap and envelope flap of vol. 3). Traces of a block-pressed leather doublure on vol. 1, fol. 1. Upper and lower covers of vol. 1 made of paper pasted over paper pasteboards with leather spine and edges. Paper pastedowns. Vol. 2 disbound.

Provenance:

Ownership statement signed Aḥmad ibn ʻUbayd al-ʻAṭṭār, dated 1200 H. [1785] or 1300 H. [1882] on vol. 1, fol. (i)a. Ownership statements signed ʻAbd Allāh al-Baṣrawī (repeated on fol. 2a, reading ʻAbd Allāh ibn Zayn al-Dīn al-Baṣrawī) and al-Ḥusaynī al-Ḥasnī on vol. 3, fol. 1a. Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition:

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References:

Hitti, P. Garrett coll., 686

Author:

Dhahabī, Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad, 1274-1348

Created:

1410-01-01T00:00:00Z/625-12-31T23:59:59Z

Date:

1410-625

Abstract:

Biographical dictionary of transmitters of traditions, being an abirdgment of the dictionary by al-Mizzī, Tahdhīb al-kamāl fī asmāʼ al-rijāl. At the end of the text, after the colophon, statement by Dhahabī indicating that al-Mizzī composed his work from Muḥarram 9, 705 to Dhū al-Ḥijjah 10 ("Yawm al-Aḍḥá), 712 [Aug. 1305-April 1313], and that Dhahabī completed his abridgment in Ṣafar 719 [1319], after eight months of work (vol. 3, fol. 315a-b).

Identifier:

ark:/88435/dcx346dd98k

Location:

Special Collections Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 198H

Edm rights:

No Known Copyright

Uniform title:

Tahdhīb fī ikhtiṣār Kitāb al-Tahdhīb tahdhīb al-kamāl fī asmāʼ al-rijāl
تهذيب في اختصار كتاب التهذيب تهذيب الكمال في اسماء الرجال

Contributor:

Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 198H

Donor:

Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961

Available online:

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