Details

Subject(s)

• Islam—Doctrines—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Islamic philosophy—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. 987H [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Stamps [Browse]

Summary note

Treatise on metaphysics.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from beginning of text (fol. 1b).
• Inscriptions on the pastedown of the upper cover and the first fly-leaf. Inscription on the margin of fol. 2a: "Aḥmad ... Afzarī". Inscriptions on fol. 18b. Seal impression on the last fly-leaf. Inscription "499" using Western numerals on the upper cover.
• Layout: 17 lines per page.
• Description: Written in shikastah nastaʻlīq in black ink with use of red. On fol. 1b-8b, the text is framed within two red lines. Light cream glazed paper with laid and chain lines visible. Foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Origin: Copied in Jumādá al-Ākhir ?65 by Muṣtafá ibn [...?] ibn Khalīl. According to Hitti following Houtsma, this should be read 865.
• Incipit: اما بعد حمد واجب الوجود على نعمائه والصلوة ... فانّي مجيب الى ما سُئلت من تحرير مسائل الكلام وترتيبها على ابلغ النظام
• Explicit: والا لزم خلاف الواقع والاخلال بحكمة الله تع وشرطها علم فاعلهما بالوجه وبتجويز التاثير وانتناء المفسدة والحمد له على انعامه

Binding note

Later type II (with flap) binding in brown leather and paper over paper pasteboards. Paper pastedown and flyleaf.

Language note

Arabic;

Script

Shikastah nastaʻlīq

Provenance

Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900, from the books of Amīn ibn al-Ḥasan al-Ḥulwānī al-Madanī al-Ḥanafī (Medina).

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

Hitti, P. Garrett coll., 864

Other format(s)

• Microfilm negative available for reproduction.
• Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

71844116

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