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Subject(s)

• Ūshī, ʻAlī ibn ʻUthmān active 12th century—Badʼ al-amālī [Browse]
• Islam—Doctrines—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. 984H [Browse]

Summary note

A commentary on the dogmatical treatise in verse entitled Badʼ al-amālī by Abū al-Ḥasan Sirāj al-Dīn ʻAlī ibn ʻUthmān al-Ūshī.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from title page (fol. 1a).
• A few marginal notes and glosses. It is stated in the original colophon that the work was composed in Makkah 1010 [1602]. Biographical notes on folio 1a.
• Collation: Paper ; fol. 45 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 19 lines per page ; frame-ruled in red.
• Description: Rubricated ; MS in good condition, some staining and repairs.
• Origin: According to colophon copy completed Thursday 8 Shawwāl 1124 by Muḥammad Maḥmūd (fol. 45a).
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله الذي وجب وجود ذاته ... وبعد فيقول الملتجى الى حرمربه الباري على بن سلطان محمد القارى ... فسنح ببالي وخيالي ان اضع شرحاً
• Colophon: وفرغ من تعليقه الفقير الى الله تعالى محمد محمود في يوم الخميس الثامن من شوال سنة اربعة وعشرين ومائة والف. م

Binding note

Later type II (with flap) binding in light brown leather and orange paper with black and white pattern.

Provenance

Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1555.
• Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), IV, pp. 122/3, 560.
• Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 2415-8.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

Other title(s)

• Ḍawʼ al-maʻālī sharḥ Badʼ al-amālī
• ضوء المعالي شرح بدء الامالي

OCLC

1393496102

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