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Subject(s)

• ʻIṣām al-Asfarāyīnī, Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad 1468 or 1469-1538 or 1539—Sharḥ al-Risālah al-Samarqandīyah [Browse]
• Samarqandī, Abū al-Qāsim ibn Abī Bakr active 15th century—Risālah al-Samarqandīyah fī al-istiʻārāt [Browse]
• Arabic language—Rhetoric [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Related name

• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 445H [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Headbands [Browse]
• Watermarks (Paper) [Browse]

Summary note

A gloss on the commentary of ʻIṣām al-Dīn al-Isfarāʼinī on al-Risālah al-Samarqandīyah.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from lower edge of text block.
• A few marginal notes. Completed in 1215 [1800/1801]
• Collation: Paper ; fol. i + 110 + i ; catchwords ; foliation every 10 folios using Hindu-Arabic numerals ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 25-28 lines per page.
• Description: Overlining in red ; watermarks ; MS in good condition but several folios are stained with dampness.
• Origin: According to colophon copied by Būsnawī Rashīd (fol. 110a).
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه نستعين. حمد من احسن جمال البلاغة بمزايا مقتضى المقام ... وبعد فيقول العبد الفقير الى المعبود الفنى السيد محمد صادق بن السيد عبد الرحيم المفتى بارزنجان رفع الله قدرهما في الجنان
• Colophon: وقد تهياء [تهيأ] سنة خمس عشرة ومائتين والف بعون المستعان في البداية والنهاية للعبد الغريق في بحار الاثام الفراغ من ما جمع من الفرائد رجاء ان يجعل له يوم الجزاء ذخرا فرطا ولعل الناظر المنصف يصون المجموع من وصمة الالتفات ويذکر الجامع بدعاء صالح ينتفع به في الحيوة والممات من يد اضعف العباد بوسنوي رشيد

Binding note

Contemporaneous type II (with flap) binding in brown leather and dark pebbled paper. Light green paper pastedowns. Multi-colored endbands.

Provenance

Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 562.
• Brockelmann, GAL, II, p. 194.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

Other title(s)

حاشية على شرح الاستعارات.

Title from Hitti

• Ḥāshiyah ʻalá Sharḥ al-Istiʻārāt

OCLC

1333952575

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