Details

Subject(s)

• Arithmetic—Early works to 1900 [Browse]
• Mathematics, Arab—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Islamic law—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Prayer—Islam—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Kaydānī—Maṭālib al-muṣallī [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Scribe

• Kāẓimī, Muḥammad ibn Jawād, active 17th century [Browse]

Related name

• كاظمي، محمد بن جواد، active 17th century [Browse]
• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 522H [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Headbands [Browse]
• Watermarks [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• scientific illustrations (images) [Browse]
• tables (documents) [Browse]

Contains

• Quhustānī, Muḥammad, -approximately 1546. Sharḥ Muqaddamat al-ṣalāh. [Browse]
• قهستاني، محمد، -approximately 1546. شرح مقدمة الصلاة. [Browse]

Notes

• Ms. composite codex.
• Title supplied by cataloger.
• Marginal notes and glosses. First work heavily annotated.
• Collation: Paper ; fol. 55 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 21-23 lines per page ; ruled.
• Description: Rubricated ; watermarks (fol. 14-55: crown-star-crescent) ; MS in fair condition; staining affecting legibility.
• Origin: [Risālah fī al-ḥisāb] Copied in al-Muḥarram 1025 by Muḥammad ibn Jawād Kaldār al-Kāẓimī (fol. 13a) -- [Sharḥ Muqaddamat al-ṣalāh] Copied 1102 (fol. 55a).
• Incipit: [رسالة في الحساب] ليس بعدد وان تألفت منه الاعداد كما ان الجوهر الفرد -- [شرح مقدمة الصلاة] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه الحمد لله الذي رفع قاعدة الفقه حتى وقعا على مراد التابعين
• Colophon: [رسالة في الحساب] فرغ من تسويدها العبد الاقل المفتقر الى عفو ربه وغفرانه محمد بن جواد کلدار الکاظمي فى صبيحت الخميس من شهر المحرم الحرام سنة الف وخمس وعشرين من الهجرة على مشرفها السلام -- [شرح مقدمة الصلاة] يوم العيد لسنة اثنين ومائة والف من الاعوام والسنين ارجوا [ارجو] بهذه التتمة حسن العاقبة والخاتمة. م

Binding note

Later quarter-bound type III (without flap) limp binding in brown leather and marbled paper. Endbands.

Language note

Arabic;

Script

Fārisī.

Contents

• 1. fol. 1a-13a: [Risālah fī al-ḥisāb] A compendium of arithmetic. Contains charts and drawings. In colophon it is stated that work was composed in Iṣfahān, 990 [1582]. Incomplete at beginning.
• 2. fol. 14a: [Gloss on Sharḥ Muqaddamat al-ṣalāh] First page only; inverted.
• 3. fol. 14b-55a: [Sharḥ Muqaddamat al-ṣalāh] A commentary on the Muqaddamat al-ṣalāh of Luṭf Allāh al-Nasafī al-Fāḍil al-Kaydānī, who flourished ca, 900 [1494/5]. This in turn is a work on prayer discussing its conditions, the duties connected with it, when it is acceptable and when it is not. In Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), VI, p. 83, is a statement that there is a difference of opinion as to the author of the groundwork; it assumes that the author is Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥamzah al-Fanārī 751-834 [1350-1430/1]. The groundwork is otherwise known as Maṭālib al-muṣallī.

Provenance

Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1047, 1958.
• Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), VI, p. 83.
• Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 3525.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

Other title(s)

• Risālah fī al-ḥisāb.
• رسالة في الحساب.

OCLC

1370362335

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