A collection of Arabic and Persian texts on Islamic law, logic and dialectics.
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from label on upper cover.
List of contents (fol. 1a). Inscriptions (fol. 158a and 152a). Inscriptions in Persian (fol. 189b-200b). Label on lower cover: "F.G 7".
Collation: Paper ; fol. 200 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 9-17 lines per page ; fol. 1-11 frame-ruled in red, other scattered pages frame-ruled in red.
Description: Rubricated ; MS in good condition.
Decoration: Illuminated headpiece design of red and black lines and dots (fol. 1b). Basmalah decorated with a frame of red dots (fol. 118a).
Origin: Probably from the XVIIIth century.
Incipit: [شرح وقاية] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله رافع اعلام الشريعه الغراء جا عليها شجرة ... وبعد فان العبد المتوصل الى الله تعالى باقواى الذريعة عبيد الله ابن مسعود ابن تاج الشريعة ... -- [رسالة اصول الفقه] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله رب العالمين والعاقب للمتقين ... اعلم ان العبد متبلا بين ان يطع الله تعالى -- [الرسالة الحهفية] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم لك الحمد جعل الله تعالى مخاطبا تنبيها على القرب ... -- [Commentary 1] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم ولما اشار الى من سعيد بلطف الحق والدين بتحرير كتاب كذا وكذا فبدرت بمقتضى اشارت وشرعت فى تحريره وتصنيفه وسميته بالرساله فى قواعد المنطقية
Colophon: [شرح وقاية] تمت النسخة الشريفة الى يوم خمس وعشرون من شهر رمضان واتبرك فى عبده ... على يد الفقير ملا طاهرين تمت الكتاب بعون ملك الوهاب -- [رسالة اصول الفقه] تمت الكتاب بعون الكريم الوهاب -- [رسالة الحهفية] تمت الرسالة برحمك يا ارحم الرحمين
Binding note
Later type III (without flap) painted and lacquered? binding in dark brown leather. Color-stamped mandorla with pendants outlined in yellow. Decorative edging with yellow, green, gold and orange paint. Multi-colored endbands. Spine replaced.
Language note
Arabic and Persian;
Script
Fārisī
Contents
1. fol. 1b-117b: Sharḥ Wiqāyat al-riwāyah fī masāʼil al-Hidāyah, by ʻUbayd Allāh ibn Masʻūd al-Maḥbūbī, a commentary on Burhān al-Sharīʻah's abridgment of al-Marghīnānī's Hidāyah.
2. fol. 118a-124a: Risālat uṣūl al-fiqh. A short treatise on the elements of jurisprudence.
3. fol. 125b-133b: [al-Risālah al-Ḥanafīyah]. A commentary on ʻAḍud al-Dīn al-Ījī's ʻAḍudīyah, a treatise on dialectic.
4. fol. 134b-157a: [Commentary on al-Risālah fī qawāʻid al-manṭiqīyah]. A commentary on al-Shamsīyah, a work on logic by al-Qazwīnī al-Kātibī.
5. fol. 162b-198b: [Commentary on al-Risālah fī qawāʻid al-manṭiqīyah]. Persian commentary on al-Shamsīyah, a work on logic by al-Qazwīnī al-Kātibī.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill. Leyden, A.D. 1904.
Source acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 2054.
Other format(s)
Also available in an electronic version.
Other title(s)
شرح الش... فارسي مع 4 نسخ
Risālat uṣūl al-fiqh.
رسالة اصول الفقه.
Risālah fī qawāʻid al-manṭiqīyah.
رسالة في قواعد المنطقية.
Commentary on al-Risālah fī qawāʻid al-manṭiqīyah.
Title on lower edge of text block
Sharḥ al-Sh... fārisī maʻa 4 nusakh
OCLC
1340425846
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