• Kitāb Isfahānī sharḥ Maṭāliʻ [...].

Language:
  • Arabic
Call number:
  • Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 782Y
  • Electronic Resource
Extent:
  • ii, 140, i leaves: paper ; 233 x 152 (164 x 78) mm. bound to 232 x 155 mm.
Format:
  • Manuscript
  • Book
Description:
  • Ms. codex.
  • Title from note on fol. (ii)a.
  • 26 to 29 lines per page. Written in casual medium small nastaʻlīq in black ink with use of red. Light cream paper with chain lines visible. Several ownership statements on fol. (i)a and 1a, with one seal. Title on the lower edge of the text block. Modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals (faulty).
  • Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the upper cover: "Falsafīyāt 9-13". Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the pastedown of the upper cover: "Ḥāʼ 553".
  • Copied at the end of Dhū al-Qaʻdah 879 (colophon, fol. 114b). R. Mach reads 872.
  • Incipit: الحمد لمن وجب وجوده وبقاوه وامتنع عدمه وفنانه ... ضياوه اقول ضمّن هذه الخطبة معطم مطالب اصول الدين من اثبات الصانع وصفاته
  • Explicit: وحكى عن اثارهم المرضية وسيرتهم الحميدة نفعنا الله بمحبّهم اجمعين وجعلنا ... وبعثنا يوم الدين مع الذين انعم الله عليهم من النبيين والصديقين والشهداء والصالحين وحسن اولئك رفيقا هذا اخر الكتاب
Publisher:
  • [ 1475]
Subject:
  • Bayḍāwī, ʻAbd Allāh ibn ʻUmar, -1286?—Ṭawāliʻ al-anwār min maṭāliʻ al-anẓār.
  • Islam—Doctrines—14th century
  • Islamic philosophy—Early works to 1800
  • Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Date:
  • 1475
Author:
  • Iṣfahānī, Maḥmūd ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān, 1275 or 1276-1348 or 1349
Abstract:
  • Commentary on Ṭawāliʻ al-anwār min maṭāliʻ al-anẓār by ʻAbd Allāh ibn ʻUmar al-Bayḍawī. This copy starts directly with the commentary with no preamble.
Creator:
  • Iṣfahānī, Maḥmūd ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān, 1275 or 1276-1348 or 1349
  • اصفهاني، محمود بن عبد الرحمن
Collections:
  • Robert Garrett
  • Princeton Digital Library of Islamic Manuscripts
  • Collections Donated to Princeton University Library
Edm rights:
  • No Known Copyright
Identifier:
  • ark:/88435/vd66w2535
Spatial:
  • New Jersey
References:
  • Mach, R. Yahuda, 3083
  • Brockelmann, C. GAL, I, 418 (VI/cmt. 2)
  • Brockelmann, C. GAL, SI, 742 (VI/cmt. 2)
Binding note:
  • Brown leather over pasteboards for upper and lower covers. Similar blind tooled and gold painted decoration on both covers, with a central medallion and an outer border consisting of fillets, running patterns and knotwork.
Provenance:
  • Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
Source acquisition:
  • Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
Location:
  • HSVM Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 782Y
  • HSVM Electronic Resource
  • ELF1 Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 782Y
  • ELF1 Electronic Resource
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