طوال الانوار من مطال الانظار

Ṭawāliʻ al-anwār min maṭāliʻ al-anẓār.

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Format
Manuscript, Book
Language
Arabic
Published/​Created
[1353]
Description
65 leaves : paper ; 250 x 170 (132 x 80) mm. bound to 250 x 180 mm.

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    Summary note
    Elegant copy of a Kalām treatise, comprising an introduction and three books.
    Notes
    • Ms. codex.
    • Title from preamble (fol. 6a, l. 7-8).
    • Physical description: 19 lines per page. Written in small naskh with elements of taʻlīq, in black ink with use of red. The text is framed within two red lines up to fol. 30b. Light cream paper, glossy, with laid lines visible. Marginal annotations. Several inscriptions on fol. 1a-5a, including verses of poetry, short excerpts from several texts, and ownership statements.
    • Origin: Copy completed on 26 Shaʻbān 754 [Sept. 26, 1353] (colophon, fol. 63b).
    • Incipit: الحمد لمن وجب وجوده وبقائه وامتنع عدمه وفناءه دل على وجوده ارضه وسماءه ... وبعد فان اعظم المعلوم موضوعا واقومها اصولا وفروعا واقوتها حجة ودليلا واجلتها محجة وسبيلا هو العلم الكافل بابراز اسرار اللاهوت
    • Explicit: فله محامل وتاويلات ومع ذلك فلا يعادل ما ورد في مناقبهم وحكى عن اثارهم نفعنا الله بمحبتهم اجمعين وجعلنا لهديهم متبعين وعصمنا عن زيغ الضالين وبعثنا يوم الدين فى عداد الهادين بفضله العظيم وفيضه العميم انه جواد كريم رؤف رحيم
    Binding note
    Brown leather over paper pasteboards for upper and lower covers. Both covers have a blind stamped central mandorla and an outer border consisting of fillets. Paper pastedowns. Badly damaged.
    Provenance
    Ownership statement in the name of Ṭayyib ibn Khiḍr(?) ibn Muḥammad and another dated 1292 H. on fol. 3a. Ownership statement in the name of Muṭahhar ibn ʻAbd Allāh ibn ʻAlī al-Ḥusaynī, dated Shawwāl 762 H. [Aug. 1361] ; another with name obliterated, dated 6 Ṣafar 763 [Dec. 5, 1361] ; and impressions of two seals on fol. 5a.
    References
    • Mach, R. and E. Ormsby. Handlist (New Series), 1553
    • Brockelmann, C. GAL, I, 418/VI ; SI
    OCLC
    163254693
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