Item Summary

Aceph. and incomplete copy of a treatise on kalām. According to R. Mach, the contents correspond to ed. Guillaume, p. 16, l. 2 - p. 31, l. 2 and p. 94, l. 15 - p. 480, l. 10.

Descriptive Information

Title
[Nihāyat al-iqdām fī ʻilm al-kalām].
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 834Y
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dv13zw813
Publisher
[ between 14--? and 15--?]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1400-1599
Format
Manuscript
Extent
184 leaves: paper ; 200 x 133 (139 x 93) mm. bound to 203 x 135 mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Mach, R. Yahuda, 3033
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
17 lines per page. Written in medium large naskh in black ink. Thick dark cream paper with laid and chain lines visible. Leaves missing after fol. 8 (6 quires). Seal on fol. 2a. Obliterated seal on fol. 154a.
Collation: Paper, fol. 184 ; 1-23⁸ ; quires are numbered using Arabic numerals, starting with "9" on fol. 25a.
Beginning of text as extant: انّه يوجب لكونه وجودا على صفة(؟) او ذاتا على صفة\\
End of text as extant: \\ هذا كلامنا فى وجوب الامامة على الاطلاق وامّا القول فى تعيين الامام
Binding Note
Black leather over pasteboards for upper and lower covers. Both covers are similarly blind-tooled with a frame made of fillets and an elaborate outer frame made of fillets and a s-shape running pattern.

Discovery Information

Subject
Islam—Doctrines—11th century
Islam—Doctrines—12th century
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton

Physical Characteristics

File Count
189

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/46db44b8-ac41-426b-9e9d-66fc1475df25/manifest