- تنوير المطالع
- Tanwīr al-Maṭāliʻ.
- Collections:
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- Robert Garrett
- Princeton Digital Library of Islamic Manuscripts
- Collections Donated to Princeton University Library
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- Language:
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- Arabic
- Creator:
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- Iṣfahānī, Maḥmūd ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān, 1275 or 1276-1348 or 1349
- اصفهاني، محمود بن عبد الرحمن
- Call number:
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- Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 3994Y
- Electronic Resource
- Extent:
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- 357 leaves : paper ; 188 x 130 (122 x 90) mm. bound to 190 x 143 mm.
- Format:
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- Manuscript
- Book
- Description:
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- Ms. codex.
- Title from beginning of text (fol. 2a, l. 9).
- The author's name appears on fol. 1a (later hand).
- 15 lines per page. Written in medium large naskh in black ink with use of red. Light cream to orange glazed paper with laid and chain lines visible; frame-ruled. Fol. 59-75 and 84-100 are later replacements (glazed European paper) written in a poor script. Some leaves are missing (e.g. first and last leaves of the first quire, see between fol. 8 and 9). The quires are numbered (see fol. 9a) ; catchword on the verso of each leaf. Foliation in black ink using Arabic numerals (reflecting the foliation before the replacements; with two fol. 328). Foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
- Label pasted on the pastedown of the upper cover with inscription in Roman script: "Y98". Two labels pasted on the upper cover with inscription in Arabic script, respectively "sh" and "401". Traces of a label (vertical) on the spine.
- R. Mach dates this copy from the 8th cent. H.
- Incipit: الحمد لله الذى خصّص نوعَ الانسان بالهداية الى دليل توحيده وافاض على نفوسهم... وبعد فقد تطابق آراء ارباب العقل
- Beginning of text commented (fol. 2b): بسم ... اللهمّ انا نحمدكَ والحمدُ من الآئك ونشكركَ والشكر من نعمائك
- Beginning of commentary (fol. 3a): ش الحمد هو الثناء والنداء على الجميل من نعمه
- Explicit: مستعدلا دراك الحقايق وكل ميسر لما خلق له والله اعلم تم الكتاب
- Publisher:
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- [13--?]
- Subject:
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- Urmawī, Sirāj al-Dīn Maḥmūd ibn Abī Bakr, 1198-1283—Maṭāliʻ al-anwār.
- Logic, Medieval—Early works to 1800
- Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
- Title sort:
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- Tanwīr al-Maṭāliʻ.
- Alternative:
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- Sharḥ al-Maṭāliʻ
- Sharḥ al-Maṭāliʻ lil-Iṣfahānī
- شرح المطالع
- شرح المطالع للاصفهاني
- Spatial:
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- New Jersey
- Binding note:
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- Brown leather over paper pasteboards. Yellow paper pasted on upper and lower covers. Paper pastedowns.
- Provenance:
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- Waqf al-Madrasah al-Murādīyah (see stamp on fol. 3a). Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
- Source acquisition:
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- Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
- References:
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- Mach, R. Yahuda, 3221
- Author:
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- Iṣfahānī, Maḥmūd ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān, 1275 or 1276-1348 or 1349
- Created:
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- 1300-01-01T00:00:00Z/1399-12-31T23:59:59Z
- Date:
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- 1300-1399
- Abstract:
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- Commentary on Maṭāliʻ al-anwār by Sirāj al-Dīn Maḥmūd ibn Abū Bakr al-Urmawī (d. 682/1283) by al-Iṣfahānī (probably Maḥmūd ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān). See Mach, R. Yahuda, no. 3221 for more detailed information about the identity of the author of the commentary.
- Identifier:
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- ark:/88435/b2773v76k
- Location:
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- HSVM Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 3994Y
- HSVM Electronic Resource
- ELF1 Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 3994Y
- ELF1 Electronic Resource
- Edm rights:
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- No Known Copyright
- Type:
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- Early works to 1800
- Range label:
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- Title page
- Preamble
- Preamble of commented text
- Ṭaraf 1 - Qism 1
- Bāb 1 - Faṣl 1
- Bāb 1 - Faṣl 2
- Bāb 1 - Faṣl 3
- Bāb 2 - Faṣl 1
- Bāb 2 - Faṣl 2
- Bāb 2 - Faṣl 3
- Bāb 2 - Faṣl 4
- Bāb 2 - Faṣl 5
- Ṭaraf 1 - Qism 2
- Bāb 1 - Faṣl 1
- Bāb 1 - Faṣl 2
- Bāb 1 - Faṣl 3
- Bāb 1 - Faṣl 4
- Bāb 1 - Faṣl 5
- Bāb 1 - Faṣl 6
- Bāb 1 - Faṣl 7
- Bāb 1 - Faṣl 8
- Bāb 1 - Faṣl 9
- Bāb 1 - Faṣl 10
- Bāb 1 - Faṣl 11
- Bāb 1 - Khātimah
- Bāb 2 - Faṣl 1
- Bāb 2 - Faṣl 2
- Bāb 2 - Faṣl 3
- Bāb 2 - Faṣl 4
- [Bāb 3?] - Faṣl 2
- [Bāb 3?] - Faṣl 3
- Colophon
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