Kitāb al-Tawḍīḥ fī ḥall ghawāmiḍ al-Tanqīḥ - Maḥbūbī, ʻUbayd Allāh ibn Masʻūd, -1346 or 1347. (Āvarnah, 1635)
Casual copy of a commentary on the author's Tanqīḥ al-Uṣūl, on the principles of jurisprudence.
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 2a, in red ink).
Physical description: 19 lines per page. Written in a casual medium small naskh with elements of nastaʻlīq in black ink with use of red to overline the commented text; scarce use of dots. Script and paper different for fol.2-23, written in a careful thick naskh with elements of nastaʻlīq, in black ink with use of red (122 x 62 mm.). European papers with watermark. A repair in paper covers part of fol. 2a. Table of contents on fol.1a-b. Several inscriptions on fol. 1a, including ownership statements, a collation statement, verses of poetry in Persian. Marginal and interlinear annotations on the beginning of the text. Catchword on the verso of each leaf. Title on tail of text block.
Inscription in Arabic script in red pencil on the pastedown of upper cover: "Raqm 206 ʻ".
Origin: According to colophon, copy completed on a Wednesday ("yawm chahār shambah") in 1035 H. [1625 or 6] (perhaps the numbers should be read 1635) H. in Balad Āwarnah [Āvarneh?] (fol. 225). Read and collated by Ibrāhīm ibn al-Ḥājj Bakr in Balad Āwarnah on 2 Jumādá al-Ākhar 1043H. [1633] (fol. 225b).
Reading and collation statement on fol. 1a, mentioning that the text was collated on a good copy by Ibrāhīm Ibn al-Ḥājj Bakr (with erased seal; it is unclear whether the copy or the collation is by Ibrāhīm; see also collation note on fol. 225b, mentioned above in the note on origin). Inscription on fol. 1a mentioning the name "Rafīq Manṣūr Najdī Shiyāb (or Thiyāb)". Several ownership statements, some with impression of a seal, on fol. 2a, in the name of Maʻtūq(?) ibn ʻAlī (dated 1118 H.); of ʻAbd al-Ḥayy Ibn al-darwīsh ʻAlī; of ʻAbd al-Razzāq Ibn Mahdānī (dated '680 H.); of ʻAbd al-Raḥmān al-Arhamī(?) Imām Zādah. Impression of a seal on fol. 225a. Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
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