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Subject(s)

• Nasafī, ʻUmar ibn Muḥammad 1068?-1142—ʻAqāʼid [Browse]
• Islam—Doctrines—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. 979H [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Blind tooled bindings (Binding) [Browse]
• Gold tooled bindings (Binding) [Browse]

Summary note

Commentary on al-ʻAqāʼid al-Nasafīyah by Najm al-Dīn ʻUmar ibn Muḥammad al-Nasafī (d. 537/1142).

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from fol. 1a.
• Inscription "486" in Western numerals in black ink on the pastedown of the upper cover [corresponds to Brill's list. See Houtsma, M. Th. Catalogue d'une collection de manuscrits arabes et turcs appartenant à la maison E. J. Brill à Leide, no. 979].
• Layout: 18 lines per page.
• Description: Written in medium large script, with Maghribī elements, see the dāl, the fāʼ, and the qāf. Ḥāshiyah on the margins. Several inscriptions, including a crossed out ownership statement on fol. 1a.
• Origin: Copy completed on Yawm al-Sabt 1 Rabīʻ al-Thānī 856 [April 21, 1452] by Aḥmad al-Maghribī, known as al-Farwī (colophon, fol. 74a).
• Incipit: الحمد لله المتوحد بجلال ذاته وكمال صفاته ... وبعد فان مبني علم الشرايع والاحكام وفواعد عقايد الاسلام هو علم التوحيد والصفات الموسوم بالكلام
• Explicit: والكمال فلا دلالة على افضلية الملايكة والله اعلم بالصواب واليه المرجع والماب

Binding note

Type III (without flap) binding in brown leather over paper pasteboards. Dark brown leather spine. Blind-tooled and gold painted, with a large frame consisting of fillets and a s-shape running pattern (on the lower cover: impressions of a small stamp), and a central panel outlined by a single gold fillet with a scalloped mandorla filled with geometrical blind tooling and gold, and outlined in gold with two gold painted calice pendants on the vertical axis. The inner corners of the frame are demarcated by blind fillets and filled with a small gold tooled motif consisting of three curved lines. Perhaps a type II binding lacking the flap. Purple dyed paper pastedowns.

Provenance

Acquired by Robert Garrett from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

Hitti, P. Garrett coll., 1546

Other format(s)

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

OCLC

124513207

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