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Subject(s)

• Athīr al-Dīn al-Abharī, al-Mufaḍḍal ibn ʻUmar -1265—Īsāghūjī [Browse]
• Logic—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Related name

• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 467H [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Stamps [Browse]
• Watermarks (Paper) [Browse]
• Embossed papers (Paper) [Browse]

Summary note

A commentary on the Īsāghūjī. The work is commonly known as al-Fawāʼid al-Fanārīyah.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from heading (fol. 1b).
• Marginal and interlinear notes and glosses. Magical inscription (fol. 1a).
• Collation: Paper ; fol. i + 26 + i ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 15 lines per page ; ruled, slanted ruling for marginal comments.
• Description: Rubricated ; overlining in red ; watermarks (endpapers: three crescents; text: unidentified, possibly three hats?) ; MS in good condition; edges trimmed and where there are notes they are folded.
• Origin: According to colophon copied 1219 (fol. 26b).
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم. حمدا لك اللهم على ما لخصت من منح عوارف الافاضل ... اما بعد فلما لم ينفعني التعلل بلعل وعسى عن افتراح لى في كل صباح ومساء
• Colophon: ختمنا الله تعالى بالعقائد الحقة وزوال الباطلة وحشرنا في زمرة السعداء في اعلا [اعلى] العليين مع النبيين والمرسلين على يد العبد الضعيف النحيف المفتقر الى الملك اللطيف حرره الفقير الحقير المحتاج الى رحمة ربه الغني غفر الله ذنبوبه وستر عيوبه سنة 1219

Binding note

Later quarter-bound type III (without flap) binding in brown leather and blue embossed paper. Yellow paper pastedowns and flyleaves.

Language note

Arabic;

Script

Fārisī.

Provenance

Seal impression of al-Sayyid Aḥmad Rifʻat (fol. 1a and 26b). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 809.
• Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), I, p. 503.
• Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, VI, pp. 61, 66.
• Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 5237/8.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

Other title(s)

• شرح ايساغوجي
• Kitāb Fanārī
• كتاب فناري

Title from Hitti

• Sharḥ Īsāghūjī

OCLC

1337159657

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