Details

Subject(s)

• Qurʼan—Criticism, interpretation, etc—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. 677H [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Stamps [Browse]
• Autographs [Browse]
• Watermarks (Paper) [Browse]

Summary note

A work dealing with those ambiguous verses of the Koran which deal with the nature of God and may have a doubtful conception thereof.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from title page (fol. 1a).
• A few marginal notes and glosses; marginal summaries. On the title page is a table of contents and a quote from Ibn al-Rūmī. Identification of author with Ibn al-Labbān a later addition to the title page; Ziriklī links the work with Ibn al-Labbān, Brockelmann doesn't.
• Collation: Paper ; fol. i + 32 + i ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 23 lines per page.
• Description: Rubricated ; watermarks (crown-star-crescent) ; MS in good condition, light staining.
• Origin: Probably from the XVIIIth century.
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه نستعين قال الشيخ الامام العالم العارف المحقق الكامل محيى الدين محمد ... اما بعد حمد الله الواحد بذاته وصفاته ...
• Colophon.: هذا آخر ما يسره الله تعالى من کتاب رد معاني الايات المتشابهات الى معاني الايات المحکمات تأليف العارف بالله تعالى محيي الدين محمد ابو عبدالله الاشبيلي الشافعي نفعنا الله به امين

Binding note

Later half-bound type III (without flap) binding in fabric and dark brown spotted paper. Brown pastedowns and end papers.

Provenance

Ownership signature: Ḥasan [..]; Abū al-Nājib Ḥasan ibn Abū al-Jūd Ibrāhīm ibn Abū Ḥāzim ... al-Shāfiʻī al-Shādhilī with seal impression (fol. 1a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1292.
• Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), III, p. 353.
• Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 716.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

1340423079

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