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Subject(s)

• Quṭb al-Taḥtānī, Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad 1294 or 1295-1364 or 1365—Lawāmiʻ al-asrār fī sharḥ Maṭāliʻ al-anwār [Browse]
• Urmawī, Sirāj al-Dīn Maḥmūd ibn Abī Bakr 1198-1283—Maṭāliʻ al-anwār [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. 481H [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Autographs (Provenance) [Browse]

Summary note

A gloss on the commentary of Quṭb al-Dīn al-Rāzī al-Taḥtānī on Maṭāliʻ al-anwār fī al-manṭiq.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from title page (fol. 1a).
• Marginal and interlinear notes and glosses. Inscriptions on follio after colophon.
• Collation: Paper ; fol. i + 159 + (1) ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 19 lines per page.
• Description: Text commented upon overlined in red ink ; MS in good condition but worm-eaten.
• Origin: According to colophon copied in the middle of Ramaḍān by Mūsá ibn Manṣūr ibn Ṣafī (fol. 159b).
• Colophon: تمت [تم] الکتاب بعون الله الملك الوهاب في اواسط رمضان کاتبه موسى بن منصور بن صفي
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم قال وحيد زمانه تغمده الله بغفرانه الحمد لله فياض ذوارف العوارف الفياض الوهاب من فاض الماء فيضا ...

Binding note

Contemporaneous? type II (with flap) binding in red leather and paper. Flap lined with pink paper. Modern repairs to cover include attaching the flap incorrectly to the upper, rather then the lower, cover.

Language note

Arabic;

Script

Fārisī.

Provenance

Signatures: Muṣṭafá Chalabī dated 1148 (fol. before title page), Abī ʻAbduh Muḥammad Asʻad ibn Sharīf ? (fol. 1a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 849.
• Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), V, p. 595.
• Pertsch, Die orientalischen handschriften der Herzoglichen bibliothek zu Gotha, 1184/5.
• Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum orientalium (1846), 543.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

Other title(s)

• Kitāb Sharḥ Maṭāliʻ
• كتاب شرح مطالع
• Sayyid Sharīf ʻalá Sharḥ Maṭāliʻ
• سيد شريف على شرح مطالع

OCLC

1340425862

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