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Subject(s)

• Quṭb al-Taḥtānī, Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad 1294 or 1295-1364 or 1365—Sharḥ al-Shamsīyah [Browse]
• Logic—Islamic Empire—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. 477H [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Autographs (Provenance) [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• magic squares [Browse]
• tuǧras [Browse]

Summary note

Gloss on the Sharḥ al-Shamsīyah (or Taḥrīr al-qawāʻid al-manṭiqīyah), a commentary on ʻAlī ibn ʻUmar al-Qazwīnī's work on the principles of logic.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from title page (fol. 1a). The second part of the title, starting with wa-Sharḥuhu ayḍan, crossed out in red ink.
• Ḥāshiyah and collation notes on the margins. Inscriptions in Arabic and Persian, including a magic square on fol. 93a-b. Two unnumbered fol. before fol. 1, blank except for ownership statement with verses of poetry on the verso of the first unnumbered fol. Several inscriptions on fol. 1a, including three lines of poetry in Arabic and four lines of poetry in Persian. No. "514" using western numerals in black ink on the upper cover.
• Collation: Paper ; fol. ii + 92 + i ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 15 lines per page.
• Description: Rubricated ; overlining and other use of red ; thin dark cream paper with laid lines and pulp visible.
• Origin: Copy completed on 10 Rabīʻ al-Awwal 815 [June 20, 1412] by ʻAbd al-ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn Idrīs (Yūnus?)al-Sā---? (colophon, fol. 92b).
• Incipit: قوله ورتبته على مقدمة وثلاث مقالات هكذا وجد عبارة المتن فى كثير من النسخ والصواب انّ.
• Explicit: من المبادى التصديقية فلا يكون ايضا جزءاً على حده بل مندرجا فى المبادى التصديقية والله الموفّق للصّواب.

Binding note

Type II (with flap) binding in red leather over paper pasteboards. Both covers are similarly blind stamped with a central mandorla with two pendants on the vertical axis, inscribed within a large elaborate border. The envelope flap has the outer portion of this border with a small stamp on its point. Paper pastedown. Disbound.

Provenance

• Several ownership statements on fol. 1a, one signed ʻUmar ibn ʻAbd al-Karīm Ibn ʻAbd al-Rasūl (al-ʻAṭṭār, see ownership statement on fol. (i)b) ; ṭughra for Muḥammad dated 1008 [1599 or 1600] ; another signed Sālim ibn ʻAbd Allāh, dated 1157 [1744 or 5]. Acquired by Robert Garrett from Brill, 1900.
• Several ownership statements on fol. 1a, one signed ʻUmar ibn ʻAbd al-Karīm Ibn ʻAbd al-Rasūl (al-ʻAṭṭār, see ownership statement on fol. (i)b) ; another dated 1008 H. [1599 or 1600] ; another signed Sālim ibn ʻAbd Allāh, dated 1157 H. [1744 or 5]. Acquired by Robert Garrett from Brill, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

Hitti, P. Garrett coll., 840

Other format(s)

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

Other title(s)

• Ḥāshiyat al-Jurjānī ʻalá Sharḥ al-Shamsīyah
• حاشية الجرجاني على شرح الشمسية

OCLC

80750056

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