Item Summary

Commentary on a work on astronomy by Maḥmūd ibn Muḥammad ibn ʻUmar al-Jighmīnī (d. after 1221) entitled al-Mulakhkhaṣ fī ʻilm al-hayʼah.

Descriptive Information

Title
كتاب شرح المختصر الموسوم بالملخص المشتهر بجغميني / صنفه الفاضل المدقق سلطان العلماء السيد الشريف
Transliterated Title
Kitāb Sharḥ al-mukhtaṣar al-mawsūm bi-al-Mulakhkhaṣ al-mushtahar bi-Jighmīnī / ṣannafahu al-Fāḍil al-mudaqqiq sulṭān al-ʻulamāʼ al-Sayyid al-Sharīf.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 4197Y
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/x920g047m
Publisher
[ 1415]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1415
Format
Manuscript
Extent
56 leaves : paper ; 210 x 105 (140 x 53) mm. bound to 210 x 107 mm.
Provenance
Four ownership statements on fol. 1a, one signed --ām (Hishām?) ibn ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Mīkā--? al-Bukhārī? ; one signed Muḥammad al-shahīr bi-Sirājʹzādah, dated Qusṭanṭinīyah 1020 H. [1611 or 12] (or 1030 [1620 or 21]) ; one signed al-Sayyid Aḥmad Rashīd ʻAbd Allāh Afandī ---? (zādah?), with seal ; one signed Aḥmad Najīb ibn Aḥmad Ṭāhir, dated 13 J[umādá al-]U[lá] [12]81 [1864]. Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Mach, R. Yahuda, 4880
Brockelmann, C. GAL, I, 473/5. cmt. 2
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from note on fol. 1a.
25 lines per page. Written in small nastaʻlīq in black ink with use of red. Thin dark cream paper with laid lines and pulp visible. Fol. 42 and 52-56 (blank): glazed European paper with watermark. Catchword on the verso of each leaf. Several inscriptions and ownership statements on fol. 1a. Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the upper cover: "Riyāḍiyāt 54". Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the pastedown of the upper cover: "Ḥāʼ 242".
Copied from an autograph on 24 Dhū al-Ḥijjah 817 by ʻAbd Allāh ---? (colophon, fol. 51b, with hardly legible mention of the name of the copyist).
Incipit: سبحانك اللهم يا مدير اطباق السماوات بلا عمد واوتاد على القطب ... وبعد فقد دلت البراهين العقلية والشواهد النقلية على ان اقصى ما يترجى للانسان من معارج الكمالات ... [2أ] ... قوله وجعلته يشتمل على مقدمة ومقالتين وذلك لانّ [2ب] ما ذكر فيه اما ان يكون مقصوداً بالذات
Explicit: وهذه السنة القمرية ناقصة عن السنة الشمسية بعشرة ايام وعشرين ساعة ونصف ساعة بالتقريب وليكن هذا اخر كلامنا فى شرح الكتاب والله سبحانه مفيض الخير و [...؟] الصواب والمرجو من اولى البصاير النقّادة ان يعمضوا(؟) عن الضرار(؟) وان لا يوخذوا بالهفوات
Binding Note
Marbled paper pasted on golden brown leather over paper pasteboards for upper and lower covers. Paper pastedowns.

Discovery Information

Subject
Astronomy, Arab—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Jighmīnī, Maḥmūd ibn Muḥammad -1221?—Mulakhkhaṣ fī al-hayʼah

Physical Characteristics

File Count
60

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/e6142376-a3b0-4ec6-a794-3a64f00df533/manifest