Item Summary

Gloss on the commentary by Maḥmūd ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān al-Iṣfahānī (d. 749/1348) on Tajrīd al-ʻaqāʼid by Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī.

Descriptive Information

Title
حاشيه شرح تجريد علي الاصبهاني / للسيد الشريف
Transliterated Title
Ḥāshiyah-i Sharḥ-i Tajrīd-i ʻAlī al-Iṣbahānī / lil-Sayyid al-Sharīf.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 988H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dct435gr535
Publisher
[1486]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1486
Format
Manuscript
Extent
325 leaves: paper ; 180 x 120 (140 x 68) mm. bound to 180 x 130 mm.
Provenance
Two ownership statements on fol. 1a, signed respectively Muṣtafá Mudarrasīʹzādah and al-Sayyid Muḥammad Waḥīd(?) ibn ʻAbd al-Karīm ibn Muṣṭafá, known as Mudarrasīʹzādah, the second dated 1228 H. [1813]. Acquired by Robert Garrett from Brill, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett coll., 865
Mach, R. Yahuda, 3063
Brockelmann, C. GAL, I, 509 (8/II.2. cmt. b/gloss a) ; SI, 926
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from note on fol. 1a.
Ḥāshiyah on the margins. Title on tail of text block.
Layout: 21 lines per page ; partially frame-ruled in red (fol. 11a-20b, 41a-70b).
Description: Written in medium small nastaʻlīq in black ink with use of red for "qawluh" and overlining. Some spaces left for rubrication blank (see fol. 6a). Thin paper with laid and chain lines visible. A few leaves are dyed, mostly in yellow (see fol. 264). Some of these leaves are damaged due to the bad evolution of the dyeing. These leaves are blackened and extremely fragile (see fol. 266, 269).
Origin: Copy completed in 891 H. (colophon in glittering ink, fol. 323b).
Incipit: قوله امّا بعد حمد واجب الوجود خصّ بالذكر من صفاته العلى ما هو اخص به تعالى اعنى الودوب الذاتى لا نطوائها على سآئرها اذ هو معدن لكلّ كمال
Explicit: بتأثر المتأثر بقبول تلك الصفة فيكون هناك متأثر به اخرى وهكذا ويلزم التس تم الكتاب
Binding Note
Type II (with flap) binding in red-brown leather over paper pasteboards. The covers have and outer border made of blind tooled fillets and running patterns with the inner corners outlined by a fillet. The inner panel is outlined with one single gilt fillet. Small central six lobes flower stamp with floral motif on gold background. The envelope flap has a portion of the same frame and central stamp. Geometrical decoration consisting of blind-tooled and gilt fillets on the fore-edge flap. Black leather doublure. The upper cover is disbound.

Discovery Information

Subject
Ṭūsī, Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad 1201-1274—Tajrīd al-iʻtiqād
Iṣfahānī, Maḥmūd ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān 1275 or 1276-1348 or 1349—Tashyīd al-Qawāʻid
Islam—Doctrines—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Autographs
Gold tooled bindings
Blind tooled bindings
Leather doublures
Colored papers

Physical Characteristics

File Count
666

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/ef1ab924-31d5-4140-8dd6-537bf2be0cda/manifest