Item Summary

Two commentaries on al-ʻAqāʼid al-Nasafīyah.

Descriptive Information

Title
هذا كتاب شرح عقائد مع شمس الدين.
Transliterated Title
Hādhā Kitāb Sharḥ ʻAqāʼid maʻa Shams al-Dīn.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 980H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dc6h4414106
Publisher
Jumādá al-Akhir 845 [October/November 1441]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1441
Format
Manuscript
Extent
131 leaves : paper ; 188 x 138 (115-130 x 87-96) mm bound to 184 x 148 mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1547, 1554.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Contents
1. fol. [i]-1a: [Collective title page and inscriptions]
2. fol. 1b-62b: [Sharḥ al-ʻAqāʼid al-Nasafīyah]
2. fol. 63a-66a: [Extracts and inscriptions]
3. fol. 66b-130a: [Ḥall al-ʻaqāʼid bi-sharḥ al-ʻAqāʼid] In Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), IV, p. 227 a work of the same title and the same beginning is mentioned and is attributed to Munlāzādah al-Harawī al-Kharaziyānī. It is also stated that this was composed 886 [1481] while our copy was made 845 [1441].
4. fol. 130b-131b: [Inscriptions]
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from collective title page (fol. [i]a).
Marginal and interlinear notes and glosses. Extracts, inscriptions, signatures, and a seal impression on pastedowns, and before, between, and after the two main works.
Collation: Paper ; fol. i + 131 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 15-19 lines per page.
Description: Text overlined in red ; lacking some iʻjām diacritical marks ; irregularly alternating plain and tinted paper ; MS in good condition except stained with dampness.
Origin: [Sharḥ al-ʻAqāʼid al-Nasafīyah] Copied by Muṣṭafá ibn Muḥammad ibn Sulaymān (fol. 62b) -- [Ḥall al-ʻaqāʼid] Copied Tuesday Jumādá al-Akhir 845 by Muṣṭafá ibn Muḥammad ibn Sulaymān ibn Aḥmad (fol. 130a).
Incipit: [شرح العقائد] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه العون الحمد لله المتوحد بجلال ذاته وكمال صفاته ... وبعد فان مبنى علم الشرايع والاحكام واساس قواعد عقائد الاسلام -- [حل العقائد] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه العون الحمد لله الذي توحد ذاته باقتضاء صفات الجمال وبعون الجلال ...
Colophon: [شرح العقائد] فرغ من تسطره مصطفى بن محمد بن سليمان تغمدهم ... والفقران وابطر عليهم ... المسلمين بطر العدل والكرم والاحسان -- [حل العقائد] وقع الفراغ من تحرير هذه النسخة الشريفة على يدالعبد الفقير الى رحمة ربه العزيز القدير مصطفى بن محمد بن سليمان ابن احمد غفرالله لهم ولجميع المؤمنين والمؤمنات يوم الثلثاء وقت العشاء من شهر جمادى الاخر لسنة خمس واربعين وثمانمائة
Binding Note
Later? type II (with flap) binding in brown leather. Blind-stamped medallion and blind-tooled edging on covers and flap. Marbled paper flap lining.

Discovery Information

Subject
Nasafī, ʻUmar ibn Muḥammad 1068?-1142—ʻAqāʼid
Islam—Doctrines—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Blind tooled bindings
Autographs
Stamps
Colored papers

Physical Characteristics

File Count
277

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/9d8268a5-653c-4a1a-9695-703aa8dab93e/manifest