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شرح المواقف / للعلامة ... السيد الشريف الجرجاني
Sharḥ al-Mawāqif / lil-ʻallāmah ... al-Sayyid al-Sharīf al-Jurjānī.
1400-1591
Item Summary
Commentary on Kitāb al-Mawāqif by ʻAḍud al-Dīn al-Ījī (d. 756/1355). The commentary was completed in Samarcand in the beginning of Shawwāl 807 (see colophon, fol. 338b).
Descriptive Information
- Title
- شرح المواقف / للعلامة ... السيد الشريف الجرجاني
- Transliterated Title
- Sharḥ al-Mawāqif / lil-ʻallāmah ... al-Sayyid al-Sharīf al-Jurjānī.
- Call Number
- Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 164Y
- Identifier
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/9g54xm28x
- Publisher
- [ between 14--? and 1591]
- Language
- Arabic
- Date Created
- 1400-1591
- Extent
- 341 leaves: paper ; 265 x 173 (198 x 122) mm. bound to 267 x 183 mm.
- Provenance
- Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
- Source Acquisition
- Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
- References
- Mach, R. Yahuda, 3097
- Brockelmann, C. GAL, II, 208 (IV/cmt. 1)
- Brockelmann, C. GAL, SII, 289 (IV/cmt. 1a)
- Rights Statement
- No Known Copyright
- Notes
- Ms. codex.
- Title from fol. 10a.
- 29 lines per page. Written in small casual naskh in black ink with use of red for headings and to overline the commented text. Marginal notes. Collation notes The ten first folios are a later addition, with a title on fol. (i)a and a table of contents on fol. (i)b-6a. On fol. 10a: Title; inscription "Amīr Afandī". On fol. 11a: Several inscriptions and ownership statements (dated 999 H., 1119 H., 1133 H.) in Arabic and Persian, with two seals. Fol 11 is pasted on the next fol. (inscriptions visible). Foliation in red ink using Arabic numerals (starts on fol. 11a). Modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals (omits the first folio; omits a folio between fol. 23 and 24). Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the upper cover: "Tawḥīd 23". Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the pastedown of the upper cover: "Ḥāʼ 760".
- Incipit: ضمن خطبة كتابه الاشارة الى مقاصد علم الكلام
- Explicit: قال المص وليكن هذا اخر الكلام ... [338ب] ... انه هو الغفور الرحيم وانا اقول هذا ما تيسر لنا بعون الله وحسن توفيقه من كشف مشكلاته وتوضيح معضلاته وتحرير مسائله وتقرير دلايله ... وجعله دحرا لنا يوم الدين انه خير موفق ومعين
- Binding Note
- Brown leather over pasteboards for upper and lower covers. Both covers are similarly decorated with a blind-tooled and gold painted central mandorla with two pendants on the vertical axis. Rebacked. Marbled paper pastedowns.
Physical Characteristics
- File Count
- 350
Institutional Information
- Collection
- Manuscripts of the Islamic World
- IIIF Manifest URL
-
https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/b07e3fb9-9dee-4be1-b61d-911632ad2347/manifest














