Item Summary

Collection of two glosses on fiqh and logic: a gloss by al-Jurjānī on the commentary by ʻAḍud al-Dīn al-Ījī (d. 756/1355) on the Mukhtaṣar al-Muntahá by Ibn al-Ḥājib (d. 646/1249), on uṣūl al-fiqh, and part 3 (al-taṣdīqāt) of a supergloss on the gloss by the same Jurjānī on the commentary by Quṭb al-Dīn al-Rāzī al-Taḥtānī (d. 766/1364) on the Shamsīyah fī al-qawāʻid al-manṭiqīyah by Najm al-Dīn al-Kātibī (d. 675?/1276?), including glosses on Taḥtānī's commentary.

Descriptive Information

Title
سيد شريف على شرح مختصر المنتهى. عجم على تصديقات القطب
Transliterated Title
Sayyid-i Sharīf ʻalá Sharḥ Mukhtaṣar al-muntahá. ʻAjam ʻalá taṣdīqāt al-Quṭb.
Call Number
Islamic manuscripts, Garrett no. 5609Y
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/vq27zr022
Publisher
[ 1488-1584]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1488-1584
Extent
95 leaves : paper ; 182 x 132 mm. bound to 183 x 132 mm.
Provenance
From the books of Aḥmad Najīb Ibn Aḥmad Ṭāhir (ownership statement dated 17 R[ajab or Rabīʻ al-Thānī] [12]79 on fol. 1a). One other ownership statement on the same fol. (erased). Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Mach, R. Yahuda, 871, 3199
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Contents
1. fol. 2b-65a: [Ḥāshiyah ʻalá Sharḥ al-Ījī / ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad al-Jurjānī].
Mach, R. Yahuda, no. 871.
2. fol. 65b-66b: [Blank].
2. fol. 67a-94a: Ḥāshiyah-i ʻAjam ʻalá Taṣdīqāt al-Quṭb / [ʻAlī al-ʻAjamī].
Mach, R. Yahuda, no. 3199.
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from inscription on fol. 1a (later hand).
Physical description: Text 1 written in medium small casual naskh with elements of nastaʻlīq in black ink, with 17 lines per page (114 x 70 mm.). Text 2 written in small nastaʻlīq in black ink with use of red, with 21 lines per page (123 x 80 mm.). Important marginal annotations on both texts. Light cream paper, glossy, with laid and chain lines visible. Fol. 1 and 95 are later added fly-leaves on European paper, blank except inscription on fol. 1a.
Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the upper cover: "Uṣūl 22". Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the pastedown of upper cover: "598/2 Ḥ".
Origin: According to the colophons, Text 1 completed on 26 Ramaḍān 893 [Sept. 3, 1488] (colophon, fol. 65a) and copy of Text 2 dated 991 H. [1583 or 4] (colophon, fol. 94a). See however the similarity of the paper.
Binding Note
Marbled paper over paper pasteboards for upper and lower covers. Brown leather spine. Modern paper pastedown and free endpaper.

Physical Characteristics

File Count
100

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/bca3cf4b-8f23-406a-aeb8-7fcda3330148/manifest