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.

Format:

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Ibn ʻAbd al-Barr, Yūsuf ibn ʻAbd Allāh, 978 or 979-1071.

Contributor:

Hāshimī, Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd Allāh ibn ʻAbd al-Mālik al-Ḥasanī, former owner.

Jastrow, Marcus, 1829-1903, former owner.

Jastrow, Morris, Jr., 1861-1921, former owner.

هاشمي، محمد بن محمد بن عبد الله بن عبد المالك الحسني.

Standardized Title:

Istīʻāb fī maʻrifat al-aṣḥāb

استيعاب في معرفة الأصحاب http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n85155887

Language:

Arabic

Subjects (All):

Muḥammad, Prophet, -632.

Muḥammad, Prophet, -632--Companions--Early works to 1800.

Muḥammad.

Hadith--Authorities--Early works to 1800.

Hadith.

Hadith--Authorities.

Friends and associates.

Genre:

Early works.

codices (bound manuscripts)

Stamps (Provenance)

Penn 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.

Physical Description:

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

Other Title:

Kitāb al-Istīʻāb.

كتاب الاستيعاب.

Place of Publication:

[North Africa?] , A.H. 1085 (1674)

Language Note:

Arabic.

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).

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

Layout: 25 long lines; frame-ruled.

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

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).

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.

Origin: The colophon of volume 2 gives the date of completion as A.H. 1085 (1674) (f. 220v).

Cited as:

UPenn Oversize Ms. Codex 26.

OCLC:

122528579