Item Summary

Two glosses on Masʻūd al-Shirwānī's work Sharḥ Risālah fī ādāb al-baḥth, itself a commentary on al-Samarqandī's work Risālah fī ādāb al-baḥth.

Descriptive Information

Title
شرح الرسالة في آداب البحث ... [الخ.]
Transliterated Title
Sharḥ al-Risālah fī ādāb al-baḥth ... [etc.]
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 451H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcvm40z3070
Publisher
[before 1624]-Rabīʻ I, 1047 [before 1624-July/August 1637]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1600-1637
Format
Manuscript
Extent
43, 18 leaves : paper ; 209 x 150 (140-155 x 62-85) mm. bound to 205 x 146 mm.
Provenance
Seal impression of ʻUthmān dated 1264, ownership signature of Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī ibn Uways ibn Aḥmad al-Istāmbūlī (fol. 1a, first group). Signatures of ʻUmar ibn Muḥammad al-Jundī al-Shirwānī dated 1033 and Muḥammad ibn Mūsá al-ʻAbbādī dated 1073 and two seal impressions for Sayyid Aḥmad ʻUmar and ʻUthmān (fol. 1a, second group) Acquired from Brill, Leyden, A.D. 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 869, 870.
Hājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), I, p. 207; I, p. 209.
Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, II, pp. 272, 273, VII, pp. 217, 414.
Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 5275/6, 5277.
Catalogue des manuscrits arabes de la Bibliothèque Nationale, 2351².
Die arabischen hanschriften der Königlichen Hof- und Staatsbibliothek in Muenchen, 664¹.
Pertsch, Die orientalischen handschriften der Herzoglichen bibliothek zu Gotha, 2809¹, 2810¹.
Rieu, Supplement of the catalogue of the Arabic Mss, 737.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Contents
1. 1a-43b, first group: Sharḥ al-Risālah fī ādāb al-baḥth. A commentary on the famous treatise on dialectics entitled Risālah fī ādāb al-baḥth. Author of this gloss identified merely as Shāshī in Kashf al-ẓunūn.
2. 1a-18a, second group: Ḥāshiyat Sharḥ ādāb al-baḥth fī ʻilm al-ḥikmah wa-al-kalām. A gloss on the commentary of Masʻūd al-Shirwānī al-Rūmī on Ādāb al-baḥth. Incomplete at end. Incipit matches Kashānī's text despite a mention of Abū al-Fatḥ Tāj al-Saʻīdī above the text.
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from colophon (fol. 43b, first group).
Marginal and interlinear notes and glosses. Ottoman Turkish title on fol. 1a: Mesʻud Rûmî hâşiyesi. Title page of second work covered with a line of Hafiz's verse in large Persian calligraphy.
Collation: Paper ; fol. 43 +18 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 15-26 lines per page ; ruled.
Description: Rubricated ; watermarks (first work: three crescents, countermark "BM" with clover between; second work: unidentified watermark) ; MS in good condition, some staining.
Origin: [Sharḥ al-Risālah] Copied Rabīʻ I, 1047 by ʻAlī al-Fāḍil [ibn Sūdī Baqā]? (fol. 43b, first group)
Incipit: [شرح الرسالة في اداب البحث] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم رب يسر ولا تعسر نحمد الله العظيم حمدا يليق بذاته ... وبعد فان العلوم وان تشعبت افنانها -- [حاشية شرح اداب البحث] بسم الله ... قوله المنة علينا سلك طريق العمل بالحديث
Colophon: [شرح الرسالة في اداب البحث] تم شرح الرسالة في اداب البحث بعون الله وحسن توفيقه على يد العبد علي القاضي ... سودي بقا في اواسط شهر ربيع الاول لسنة سبع واربعين والف -- [حاشية شرح اداب البحث] هکذا قرره جمهور الشارحين ولا شك ان المدارية
Binding Note
Later type II (with flap) binding in brown leather and marbled paper. Flap missing.

Discovery Information

Subject
Samarqandī, Muḥammad ibn Ashraf active 13th century—Risālah fī ādāb al-baḥth
Shirwānī, Masʻūd ibn Ḥusayn -1499 or 1500—Sharḥ Risālah fī ādāb al-baḥth
Dialectic—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Autographs
Stamps
Watermarks

Physical Characteristics

File Count
132

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

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