Item Summary

Commentary on Ṭawāliʻ al-anwār min maṭāliʻ al-anẓār by ʻAbd Allāh ibn ʻUmar al-Bayḍawī. This copy starts directly with the commentary with no preamble.

Descriptive Information

Title
Kitāb Isfahānī sharḥ Maṭāliʻ [...].
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 782Y
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/vd66w2535
Publisher
[ 1475]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1475
Format
Manuscript
Extent
ii, 140, i leaves: paper ; 233 x 152 (164 x 78) mm. bound to 232 x 155 mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Mach, R. Yahuda, 3083
Brockelmann, C. GAL, I, 418 (VI/cmt. 2)
Brockelmann, C. GAL, SI, 742 (VI/cmt. 2)
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from note on fol. (ii)a.
26 to 29 lines per page. Written in casual medium small nastaʻlīq in black ink with use of red. Light cream paper with chain lines visible. Several ownership statements on fol. (i)a and 1a, with one seal. Title on the lower edge of the text block. Modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals (faulty).
Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the upper cover: "Falsafīyāt 9-13". Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the pastedown of the upper cover: "Ḥāʼ 553".
Copied at the end of Dhū al-Qaʻdah 879 (colophon, fol. 114b). R. Mach reads 872.
Incipit: الحمد لمن وجب وجوده وبقاوه وامتنع عدمه وفنانه ... ضياوه اقول ضمّن هذه الخطبة معطم مطالب اصول الدين من اثبات الصانع وصفاته
Explicit: وحكى عن اثارهم المرضية وسيرتهم الحميدة نفعنا الله بمحبّهم اجمعين وجعلنا ... وبعثنا يوم الدين مع الذين انعم الله عليهم من النبيين والصديقين والشهداء والصالحين وحسن اولئك رفيقا هذا اخر الكتاب
Binding Note
Brown leather over pasteboards for upper and lower covers. Similar blind tooled and gold painted decoration on both covers, with a central medallion and an outer border consisting of fillets, running patterns and knotwork.

Discovery Information

Subject
Bayḍāwī, ʻAbd Allāh ibn ʻUmar -1286?—Ṭawāliʻ al-anwār min maṭāliʻ al-anẓār
Islam—Doctrines—14th century
Islamic philosophy—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton

Physical Characteristics

File Count
150

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/5b06956e-2763-4acd-a138-a01ddfe5dc06/manifest