Item Summary

Collection of commentaries and glosses on works of dialectics and rhetoric.

Descriptive Information

Title
شرح على الرسالة الحسينية ... [الخ.]
Transliterated Title
Sharḥ ʻalá al-Risālah al-Ḥusaynīyah ... [etc.]
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 453H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dc44558q773
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1800-1899
Extent
122, (1) leaves : paper ; 120-123 x 141 (160-170 x 78-93) mm. bound to 121 x 140 mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, A.D. 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 915, 896, 573.
Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, II, p. 277
Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 5301.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Contents
1. fol. 1b-50b: [Sharḥ ʻalá al-Risālah al-Ḥusaynīyah]. A commentary on the anonymous Sharḥ al-Risālah al-Ḥusaynīyah fī ādāb al-baḥth.
2. fol. 51a: [inscriptions]
3. fol. 51b-104b: [Ḥāshiyah ʻalá Ḥāshiyat Mīr Abī al-Fatḥ]. A gloss on the gloss of Mīr Abū al-Fatḥ al-Saʻīdī al-Ardabīlī on the commentary of Muḥammad al-Tibrīzī al-Ḥanafī.
4. fol. 106a-117a: Hādhā Ḥāshiyah ʻalá Qarahʹdachahʹlī. A gloss on his own commentary on Risālat al-Istiʻārah, a work on metaphors by Maḥmūd al-Anṭākī.
5. fol. 117b-122a: [Fragmentary commentary on a work on the rules of composition].
Notes
Ms. composite codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Marginal and interlinear notes and glosses in black and red.
Collation: Paper ; fol. 122 + (1) ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 19-21 lines per page ; ruled ; frame-ruled in red (fol. 52b-09b).
Description: Rubricated ; watermarks (fol. 1-50: three hats, coat-of-arms?; fol. 51-104: roman-alphabet letters "CASTTES[?]", grapes; fol. 106-117: roman-alphabet letters "GFA", eagle; fol. 117-122: roman-alphabet letters "TS[?]", three crescents with faces) ; MS in good condition. Folios once larger but when trimmed some were folded over to preserve marginal notes.
Decoration: Simple illuminated headpiece in gold (fol. 51b) with gold-framing on fol. 51b-52a.
Origin: [Sharḥ ʻalá al-Ḥāshiyah ] Copied by Ḥusayn ibn ʻUthmān in Amāsīyah (fol. 50b) -- [Ḥāshiyah ʻalá al-Ḥāshiyah] Copied by Ismāʻīl ibn Aḥmad (fol. 104b) -- [Fragmentary work] Dated 1254 (fol. 122a)
Incipit: [شرح على الحاشية] بسم الله ... يا من تنزه بجلال ذاته عن مناقصة المکابرين ... وبعد فيقول ... احمد بن محمد الشهير بيكان المرعشى لما رايت الرسالة الحسينية في علم الاداب -- [حاشية على الحاشية] وبه بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم نستعين يا من وفقنا لاداب البحث والمناظرة في الكلام ... بعد فيقول الفقير الى الله الغنى عمر بن احمد الشهير بالجلي ان الحاشية -- [هذا حاشية على قره‌دچه‌لى] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحكد لله رب العالمين والصلاة على محمد وصحبه اجمعين اما بعد فقد کنت شرحت رسالة الاستعارة للمحمود الانطاکي -- [Fragmentary work] قوله ... وعرفا اد... يعنى ان كان الوضع من جهة واضع ...
Colophon: [شرح على الحاشية] تمت الرسالة بعون الله تعالى من يد حسين بن عثمان ... عيوبهما الظاهرة والباطنة في بلدة اماسية. کتبه الحقير الفقير العجز والتقصير حسين البرداني عفوه الله تعالى -- [حاشية على الحاشية] تمت عن يد عبد الضعيف اسماعيل بن احمد غفر له ولوالديه واحسن اليهما واليه -- [هذا حاشية على قره‌دچه‌لى] تمت بعون الله الملك الوهاب. الحقير م م الفقير المذنب الضعيف العبد المجيد الغفار -- [Fragmentary work] تمت هذا الرسالة بعون الله الملك الوهاب سنة 1253
Binding Note
Later type II (with flap) binding in brown leather and blue marbled paper. Flap missing. Cover apparently re-used from a narrower volume.

Physical Characteristics

File Count
254

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/970db166-75f4-4e0c-8510-8554abaa4a82/manifest