Details

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. 985H [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Autographs (Provenance) [Browse]
• Stamps (Provenance) [Browse]
• Watermarks (Paper) [Browse]
• Gold tooled bindings (Binding) [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• illuminated manuscripts [Browse]
• headpieces (layout features) [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 preface (fol. 2a).
• A few marginal notes
• Collation: Paper ; fol. ii + 65 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 13 lines per page ; frame-ruled in red.
• Description: Text in red and commentary in black ; original text vocalized ; overlining and other use of red ; watermarks (crown?, other unidentified) ; MS in good condition.
• Decoration: Simple illuminated headpiece in red.
• Origin: Copy completed end of Ramaḍān 1173 (fol. 64a).
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله الذى وجب وجود ذاته ... وبعد فيقول الملتجى الى حرم ربه البارى على بن السلطان محمد القارى لمل شرعت في شرح الفقه الاكبر ...
• Colophon: تمت في اواخر شهر رمضان لسنة ثلث وسبعين ومأية والف

Binding note

Later type II (with flap) binding in brown leather. Gold-stamped central and corner floral motifs and gold-stamped decorative edging on covers. Gold-stamped design around edges of flap. Violet paper pastedowns.

Provenance

Ownership signature of Sulaymān ibn Ḥasan, Imām and Khaṭīb of Jāmiʻ Qāsim Pāshā dated 1173 with his seal impression (fol. 64b). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1556.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

1340425207

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