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Subject(s)

• Samarqandī, Muḥammad ibn Ashraf active 13th century—Risālah fī ādāb al-baḥth [Browse]
• Shirwānī, Masʻūd ibn Ḥusayn -1499 or 1500—Sharḥ Risālah fī ādāb al-baḥth [Browse]
• Dialectic—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Related name

• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 451H [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Autographs [Browse]
• Stamps [Browse]
• Watermarks (Paper) [Browse]

Contains

• Kāshānī, Yaḥyá ibn Aḥmad, active 14th century. Ḥāshiyah ʻalá Sharḥ Risālah fī ādāb al-baḥth. [Browse]
• كاشاني، يحيى بن احمد، active 14th century. حاشية على شرح رسالة في آداب البحث. [Browse]

Summary note

Two glosses on Masʻūd al-Shirwānī's work Sharḥ Risālah fī ādāb al-baḥth, itself a commentary on al-Samarqandī's work Risālah fī ādāb al-baḥth.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from colophon (fol. 43b, first group).
• Marginal and interlinear notes and glosses. Ottoman Turkish title on fol. 1a: Mesʻud Rûmî hâşiyesi. Title page of second work covered with a line of Hafiz's verse in large Persian calligraphy.
• Collation: Paper ; fol. 43 +18 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 15-26 lines per page ; ruled.
• Description: Rubricated ; watermarks (first work: three crescents, countermark "BM" with clover between; second work: unidentified watermark) ; MS in good condition, some staining.
• Origin: [Sharḥ al-Risālah] Copied Rabīʻ I, 1047 by ʻAlī al-Fāḍil [ibn Sūdī Baqā]? (fol. 43b, first group)
• Incipit: [شرح الرسالة في اداب البحث] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم رب يسر ولا تعسر نحمد الله العظيم حمدا يليق بذاته ... وبعد فان العلوم وان تشعبت افنانها -- [حاشية شرح اداب البحث] بسم الله ... قوله المنة علينا سلك طريق العمل بالحديث
• Colophon: [شرح الرسالة في اداب البحث] تم شرح الرسالة في اداب البحث بعون الله وحسن توفيقه على يد العبد علي القاضي ... سودي بقا في اواسط شهر ربيع الاول لسنة سبع واربعين والف -- [حاشية شرح اداب البحث] هکذا قرره جمهور الشارحين ولا شك ان المدارية

Binding note

Later type II (with flap) binding in brown leather and marbled paper. Flap missing.

Language note

Arabic;

Script

Fārisī.

Contents

• 1. 1a-43b, first group: Sharḥ al-Risālah fī ādāb al-baḥth. A commentary on the famous treatise on dialectics entitled Risālah fī ādāb al-baḥth. Author of this gloss identified merely as Shāshī in Kashf al-ẓunūn.
• 2. 1a-18a, second group: Ḥāshiyat Sharḥ ādāb al-baḥth fī ʻilm al-ḥikmah wa-al-kalām. A gloss on the commentary of Masʻūd al-Shirwānī al-Rūmī on Ādāb al-baḥth. Incomplete at end. Incipit matches Kashānī's text despite a mention of Abū al-Fatḥ Tāj al-Saʻīdī above the text.

Provenance

Seal impression of ʻUthmān dated 1264, ownership signature of Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī ibn Uways ibn Aḥmad al-Istāmbūlī (fol. 1a, first group). Signatures of ʻUmar ibn Muḥammad al-Jundī al-Shirwānī dated 1033 and Muḥammad ibn Mūsá al-ʻAbbādī dated 1073 and two seal impressions for Sayyid Aḥmad ʻUmar and ʻUthmān (fol. 1a, second group) Acquired from Brill, Leyden, A.D. 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 869, 870.
• Hājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), I, p. 207; I, p. 209.
• Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, II, pp. 272, 273, VII, pp. 217, 414.
• Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 5275/6, 5277.
• Catalogue des manuscrits arabes de la Bibliothèque Nationale, 2351².
• Die arabischen hanschriften der Königlichen Hof- und Staatsbibliothek in Muenchen, 664¹.
• Pertsch, Die orientalischen handschriften der Herzoglichen bibliothek zu Gotha, 2809¹, 2810¹.
• Rieu, Supplement of the catalogue of the Arabic Mss, 737.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

Other title(s)

• Sharḥ ʻalá Risālah fī ādāb al-baḥth.
• شرح على رسالة في آداب البحث.
• Mesʻud Rûmî hâşiyesi.
• مسعد رومى حاشيةسى.
• Ḥāshiyat Sharḥ ādāb al-baḥth fī ʻilm al-ḥikmah wa-al-kalām.
• حاشية شرح آداب البحث في علم الحكمة والكلام.
• Sharḥ al-Risālah fī ādāb al-baḥth.
• شرح الرسالة في آداب البحث.

OCLC

1333954745

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