A translation of Baḥr al-kalām, an expository treatise on some passages from the Qurʻān explaining various theological questions. The author of the original Arabic work is possibly al-Imām al-Humām Abū al-Muftī, who is mentioned in the introduction.
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
Collation: Paper ; fol. 60 ; catchwords ; foliation in ink using Hindu-Arabic numerals beginning with number 37 ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 21 lines per page ; frame-ruled in red.
Description: Rubricated ; some headings in blue ; some paper tinted yellow, red, or blue.
Decoration: Simple illuminated headpiece in gold and blue. Opening pages frame-ruled in gold and black (fols. 1b-2a).
Origin: 1092 H [1681 or 1682], by Muṣtafá ibn Muḥammad.
Incipit: الحمد لله الذى الهم حقايق المعانى فى خاطر الانسان و اقدره على تفسيرها
Source of description
Description based on the Descriptive Catalog of the Garrett Collection (Moghadam et al).
Binding note
Later quarter-bound type III (without flap) binding in brown leather and marbled paper. Endbands.
Language note
Turkish in Arabic script.
Provenance
Seal impression of al-Sayyid Aḥmad Rifʻat (fol. 1a and 60a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900, from the books of Amīn ibn al-Ḥasan al-Ḥulwānī al-Madanī al-Ḥanafī (Medina).
Source acquisition
Gift; Robert Garrett (Class of 1897), 1942.
References
Moghadam, M. et al. Garrett coll., 175
Other format(s)
Also available in an electronic version.
OCLC
858685295
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