al-Mujallad al-awwal min Kitāb Daqāʾiq al-ḥaqāʾiq - Āmidī, ʻAlī ibn Abī ʻAlī, 1156 or 1157-1233.; Maḥmūd al-Ustādār, d. 1396 or 7
First volume of a set of three (see waqf statement on fol. 1a) of a comprehensive treatise on philosophy. This volume comprises the part on logic, up to the end of Maqālah 5: Fī ʻilm al-burhān (22 faṣl, starting fol. 231b), Faṣl 4: Fī al-burhān (starts fol. 236b). Apparently unique. See Ḥasan Shāfiʻī, al-Āmidī wa-ārāʾuhu al-kalāmīyah (1998), p. 75-78.
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
Physical description: 23 lines per page. Written in medium small naskh in black ink (faded to brown). The last letters of some words at the end of a line are written on the margin, after a blank space. Cream paper, hardly translucid, with thin laid lines visible ; ruled. Fol. 153-154 inverted. Impression of a circular stamp (200 mm. ; apparently same faded ink) on fol.1b. Title on tail of text-block (inverted). Worm-eaten ; fragile.
Collation: Paper, fol. 241 ; 1¹⁰ (-1 before fol. 1) 2-24¹⁰ 25².
Waqf statement on fol. 1a, dated 25 or 15 ...(?) -97 H.(?), for the Khizānah of the Madrasah he built in Cairo ("madrasatihi allatī anshāhā bi-kh[end of line] al-muwāzinīn bi-al-shāriʻ al-aʻẓam bi-al-Qāhirah al-maḥrūsah") by al-Muqirr al-Ashraf al-ʻālī al-Jamālī Maḥmūd ustādār al-ʻālīyah al-malikī al-ẓāhir[ī] [end of line]"), [most probably Jamāl al-Dīn Maḥmūd al-Ustādār, d. 799/1396 or 7 ; if this is the case the date should read 797/1394 or 5]. Mention "waqf", some with a name, on the margins of several pages (see fol. 1a, 17b-18a).
Origin: The copy is not dated, but marginal annotations throughout mention that this copy was read in front of the author (d. 631/1233). See the mention "balaghtu al-qirāʻah ʻalá al-muṣannif" on the margin of fol. 195b, 198a, etc.
Keywords: Logic, Medieval -- Islamic empire -- 12th century; Logic, Medieval -- Islamic empire -- 13th century; Islamic philosophy -- 12th century; Islamic philosophy -- 13th century; Islam -- Doctrines -- 12th century; Islam -- Doctrines -- 13th century; Manuscripts, Arabic -- New Jersey -- Princeton; Waqf -- Books; Islamic bookbinding; Manuscripts, Arabic -- 13th century