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Subject(s)

• Bayḍāwī, ʻAbd Allāh ibn ʻUmar -1286?—Ṭawāliʻ al-anwār min maṭāliʻ al-anẓār [Browse]
• Islam—Doctrines—History—14th century—Sources [Browse]
• Islamic philosophy—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Summary note

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.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from fol. 1a (later hand).
• 19 lines per page. Written in thick nastaʻlīq in black ink with use of red. Light cream paper with laid and chain lines visible. Some leaves are colored in red, in blue and in green. Fol. 121 falls in pieces. Fol. 1a is a later fly-leaf on European glazed paper with inscriptions. The last fly-leaf is pasted on fol. 185. Marginal annotations, mostly written by the same hand as the main text, with notes attributed to al-ʻIbrī, al-Sayyid al-Sharīf al-Jurjānī (from his Sharḥ al-Mawāqif), etc. Catchword on the verso of each leaf. Table of contents on the pastedown of the upper cover. Inscription on the lower edge of the text block: "Iṣfahānī".
• Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the upper cover: "ʻAqāʼid 106". Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the pastedown of the upper cover: "Ḥāʼ 1099".
• Copied by Mūsá ibn ṬṚMSh on 1 Rabīʻ al-Ākhar 864 (colophon, fol. 185a).
• Incipit: الحمد لمن وجب وجوده وبقاؤه وامتنع عدمه وفناؤه اقول ضمّن هذه الخطبة معظم مطالب اصول الدين من اثبات الصانع وصفاته
• Explicit: وحكى عن اثارهم المرضية وسيرتهم الحميدة نفعنا الله بمحبهم اجمعين وجعلنا ... وبعثنا يوم الدين مع الذين انعم الله عليهم من النبيين والصديقين والشهداء والصالحين وحسن اولئك رفيقا تمت

Binding note

Marbled paper pasted on brown leather over pasteboards for upper and lower covers. Paper pastedowns.

Provenance

From the books of Aḥmad Najīb [19th cent.] (see ownership statement on fol. 1a). Ownership statement in the name of Ḥāfiẓ Muṣṭafá ʻAfatī on fol. 2a. Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Mach, R. Yahuda, 3083
• Brockelmann, C. GAL, I, 418 (VI/cmt. 2)
• Brockelmann, C. GAL, SI, 742 (VI/cmt. 2)

Other format(s)

Microfilm negative available for reproduction.

OCLC

75278343

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