Item Summary

A treatise on logic.

Descriptive Information

Title
الصحيفة العبقرية في الاصول المنطقية.
Transliterated Title
al-Ṣaḥīfah al-ʻabqarīyah fī al-uṣūl al-manṭiqīyah.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 488H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dc05742327q
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1754-1899
Extent
74 leaves : paper, illustrations ; 160 x 111 (125-130 x 75-80) mm. bound to 162 x 115 mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 859.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from text (fol. 2a).
Table of contents (fol. 2a-4a). With illustrations.
Collation: Paper ; fol. i + 74 + i ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 17-20 lines per page ; fol. 45b-59a frame-ruled in red or black.
Description: Rubricated ; watermarks (three crescents, roman-alphabet letters) ; MS in good condition.
Decoration: Some chapter headings are decorated (f. 18b, 20a, etc.). Includes illustrations (fol. 11a, 35b). Small portrait on title page added at a later time.
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه نستعين فاتحة الكتاب الحمد لله الذي ميز الانسان بالنطق العقلى عند مطلق الحيوان وجعله فصلا قريبا يوخذ فى حد ماهية ... وبعد فيقول العبد الذليل الاثيم ... القس يواكيم احد الرهبان القانونيين البانيليين
Ending: وقد اورد تعليما مفيدا في ذلك الانبا لويس الجسري في کتابه واجبات الکهنوت في الفصل الخامس من المقالة السادسة تمت تم
Binding Note
Contemporaneous? quarter-bound type III (without flap) binding in brown leather and paper. Blind-tooled decoration on wide leather edge along the spine. Western-style binding.

Physical Characteristics

File Count
160

Institutional Information

Collection
Princeton’s Holdings of the al-Madani Library
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/6da489d4-135a-4147-805e-877034fc622b/manifest