Details

Subject(s)

• Ibn Zaydūn, Aḥmad ibn ʻAbd Allāh 1003 or 1004-1071—Risālah al-hazalīyah [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Related name

Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 18L [Browse]

Donor

Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Watermarks [Browse]

Summary note

A commentary on the epistle of Ibn Zaydūn to Ibn ʻAbdūs. The commentary is commonly known as Sarḥ al-ʻuyūn fī sharḥ Risālat Ibn Zaydūn.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from preface (fol. 1b).
• A few marginal notes and glosses.
• Collation: Paper ; fol. 148 ; quires signed: 1-15 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 19 lines per page ; ruled.
• Description: Rubricated ; watermarks (shield with a face-in-the-moon and roman-alphabet letters "AG") ; MS in good condition but worm-eaten. Not sewn.
• Origin: According to colophon copy completed Sunday 20 Jumādá al-Thāniyah 1220 (fol. 148b).
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم. الحمد لله الذي لايجب الحمد الا له ... وبعد فاني امرت بشرح رسالة الوزير ابي الوليد اين زيدون ...
• Colophon: ... وکان الفراغ من تحريرها وتنقيحها وتسطيرها في يوم الاحد المبارك الموافق لعشرين من جمادى الثانية من شهور سنة 1220 من هجرة من له العزّ والشرف على يد الفقير ... الله له وبوالديه والمسلمين امين ...

Binding note

Contemporaneous type II (with flap) binding in dark brown leather. Color-stamped mandorla and blind-tooled edging. Red paper pastedowns. Flap is missing.

Provenance

Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1904.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 191.
• Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), III, pp. 358, 590.
• Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 8606-7.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

1340423507

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