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Subject(s)

• Rāzī, Fakhr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn ʻUmar 1149 or 1150-1210—Muḥaṣṣal afkār al-mutaqaddimīn [Browse]
• Islam—Doctrines—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Summary note

Commentary on Muḥaṣṣal afkār al-mutaqaddimīn by Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī (d. 606/1209).

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from beginning of text (fol. 1b, l. 21).
• The name of the author does not appear in the copy.
• 27 lines per page. Written in a casual small naskh in black ink. Light cream paper with laid lines visible. The upper inner corner of fol. 1-14 has been repaired, with the lost text copied on the repair. On fol. 228b: collation statement. On fol. 1a: title (partially erased); stamp of a former owner in violet ink (ʻAbd al-Raḥmān Ḥalabī(?)). Foliation in red ink using Arabic numerals. Foliation in pencil using Western numerals. Water damage affecting the first two lines of most leaves.
• Between the two first endpapers: Loose leaf apparently not connected with the ms. with talismanic inscriptions in Arabic. Between fol. 75 and 76: Note in a modern hand on a small piece of paper.
• According to the original colophon copied at the end of our copy, the text was completed in Marāghah on 2 Shaʻbān 662 H. [1264] (fol. 228b).
• Copied in Arzinjān by Muḥammad ibn ... Ḍiyā al-millah wa-al-ḥaqq wa-al-dīn Aḥmad ibn ʻUthmān ibn Muḥammad al-Janazī on 19 Shawwāl 717. Collated with a copy made from the autograph in the beginning of Dhū al-Qaʻdah 717 by Faḍl Allāh ibn Aḥmad ibn ʻUthmān, known as Shaykhzādeh (fol. 228b).
• Collation: Paper, fol. ii (European glazed paper) + 228 + ii (European glazed paper). Horizontal catchword on the verso of each leaf.
• Incipit: بسم ... الحمد لله الذي افاض بجوده اقامة وجود الحقايق [انشاء بقدرته التامة انواع الخلايق و] اصطنع بلطايف صنعه اصناف المصنوعات ... اما بعد فان كتاب المحصل الذى صنفه [...] الامام الامام العلاَمه الداعي الي الله فخر الملة والحق
• Explicit: فليس فيها بحث ونظر دقيق وهى المذكورة في الكتب الكلامية المنسوبة الى الامآم على الوجه الاكمل فرأينا تركها فمن ارادها فليطالعها من تلك الكتب وليكن هذا آخر ما اردنا ايراده فى هذه الاجزاء ولواهب العقل الحمد بلا نهاية والصلوة على محمد وآله بغير عدَد وغاية وقد فرغ من جمعه وتاليفه يوم الجمعه ثانى شهر شعبان المبارك من سنه اثنتين وستين وستمايه بمدينه مراغه

Binding note

Upper and lower covers, envelope flap and fore-edge flap made of brown leather over paper pasteboards. Marbled paper with floral motif in red, green and yellow pasted on the covers and the envelope flap.

Provenance

Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Mach, R. Yahuda, 3041
• Brockelmann, C. GAL, I, 507 (V/22, cmt. a)
• Brockelmann, C. GAL, SI, 923 (22, cmt. a)

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

Other title(s)

المفصل شرح المحصل

Title on title page (fol. 1a, repaired)

al-Mufaṣṣal Sharḥ al-Muḥaṣṣal

OCLC

69263032

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