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Subject(s)

• Sajāwandī, Sirāj al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad active 12th century—Farāʼiḍ al-Sirājīyah [Browse]
• Inheritance and succession (Islamic law)—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Scribe

• Ibn Qūrah Faqīh, Ḥusayn ibn Niʻmat Allāh, active 16th century [Browse]

Related name

• بن قورة فقيه، حسين بن نعمة الله، active 16th century [Browse]
• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 922H [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Headbands (Binding) [Browse]
• Watermarks (Paper) [Browse]
• Autographs (Provenance) [Browse]
• Stamps (Provenance) [Browse]

Summary note

A commentary on al-Farāʼiḍ al-Sirājīyah.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from folio 1a.
• Marginal and interlinear notes and glosses. Prayer (fol. 225b) and tradition (fol. 226a) following the colophon.
• Collation: Paper ; fol. 226 ; catchwords ; collation note ; foliation in ink using Hindu-Arabic numerals ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 19 lines per page.
• Description: Text commented upon overlined in red ; watermarks (anchor, palm, cross, other unidentified) ; MS in good condition, mended. Some bleedthrough; significant smearing in the margins either deliberate erasure of earlier marginalia, or caused by moisture.
• Origin: According to colophon copy completed Friday in mid-Shawwāl 982 by Ḥusayn ibn Niʻmat Allāh ibn Qūrah Faqīh (fol. 224b).
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه نستعين الحمد لله الذي تفرد ذاته بالقدم والبقاء وتقدس ضفائه ... وبعد فان العلوم الشرعية هى ذرايع السعادة الدنيوية ووسايل
• Colophon: وقد وقع الفراغ من تحرير هذه النسخة الشريفة المبارکة يوم الجمعة من نصف شوال عظم الله شأنه في وقت الظهرعلى يد اضعف الناس وافقرالعباد المحتاج الى ربه الخلاق حسين بن نعمة الله بن قوره فقيه غفرالله له ولوالديه ولجميع المسلمين اجمعين. التاريخ سنة اثنا و ثمانين وتسعمائة تم

Binding note

Type II (with flap) binding in brown leather and marbled paper. Endbands.

Language note

Arabic;

Script

Fārisī.

Provenance

Signatures: Yūsuf ibn Ilyās al-shahīr bi-Rāzī with his seal impression; Abū Salwá; Muṣṭafá ibn al-Sayyid Mūsá; Muḥammad al-madʻū bi-Shaykhʹzādah (fol. 1a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1874.
• Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), IV, p. 403.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

Other title(s)

روح الشروح على السراجية

Title on upper pastedown

• Rūḥ al-shurūḥ ʻalá al-Sirājīyah

OCLC

1389593691

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