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كتاب كشف الاسرار عما خفي عن الافكار.
Kitāb Kashf al-asrār ʻammā khafiya ʻan al-afkār.
1400-1499
A collection of ingenious questions and their answers relating to subtleties of theology and law.
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- Publisher
- [15th century?]
- People
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- Author
- Ibn al-ʻImād al-Aqfahsī, Aḥmad, approximately 1349-1405
- ابن العماد الاقفهسي، احمد، approximately 1349-1405
- Related Name
- Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 992H
- Language
- Arabic
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Item Summary
A collection of ingenious questions and their answers relating to subtleties of theology and law.
Descriptive Information
- Title
- كتاب كشف الاسرار عما خفي عن الافكار.
- Transliterated Title
- Kitāb Kashf al-asrār ʻammā khafiya ʻan al-afkār.
- Call Number
- Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 992H
- Identifier
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcm326md27f
- Publisher
- [15th century?]
- Language
- Arabic
- Date Created
- 1400-1499
- Format
- Manuscript
- Extent
- 72 leaves : paper ; 272 x 182 (202 x 130) mm bound to 270 x 185 mm.
- Provenance
- Signatures: Muḥammad al-Marādhaḥī[?] and other obscured signatures (fol. 1a); Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Ghazzī dated 916 (fol. 71b); ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʻAbd Allāh al-Ḥanbalī (fol. following fol. 27). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
- Source Acquisition
- Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
- References
- Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1494.
- Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), V, pp. 199/200.
- Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, VI, p. 180.
- Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 1816-9.
- Rieu, Supplement of the catalogue of the Arabic Mss, 196.
- Rights Statement
- Copyright Not Evaluated
- Notes
- Ms. codex.
- Title from title page (fol. 1a).
- A few marginal notes and glosses. Inscriptions (fol. 72b).
- Collation: Paper ; fol. i + 72 + i ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
- Layout: 21 lines per page.
- Description: Rubricated ; pages have been trimmed ; MS in good condition.
- Origin: According to colophon copied by Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī (fol. 71b).
- Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم ... الحمد لله رب العالمين الموجد الا شيا بلا معين ... وبعد فهذا کتاب اذ کرفيه اجوبة عن ...
- Colophon: تم الکتاب علقه بخطه لنفسه محمد بن علي
- Binding Note
- Later type II (with flap) binding in brown leather. Blind-stamped mandorla with pendants and cornerpieces and blind-tooled decorative edging on covers. Round medallion and blind-tooled edging on flap. Leather doublures. Binding in poor condition.
Physical Characteristics
- File Count
- 160
Institutional Information
- Collection
- Manuscripts of the Islamic World
- IIIF Manifest URL
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https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/9ab553bf-0dee-4838-a9bb-2e3d20671523/manifest