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الدر المختار في شرح تنوير الابصار / تأليف محمد علاء الدين الحنفي.
al-Durr al-mukhtār fī sharḥ Tanwīr al-abṣār / taʼlīf Muḥammad ʻAlāʼ al-Dīn al-Ḥanafī.
1751-1752
A commentary on Tanwīr al-abṣār wa-jāmiʻ al-biḥār. The author states in the preface that after composing the first volume of a commentary entitled Khazāʼin al-asrār wa-badāʼiʻ al-afkār, he found that it would be ten volumes; so he composed this present abridged work.
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- Author
- Ḥaṣkafī, Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī, approximately 1616-1677
- حصكفي، محمد بن علي، approximately 1616-1677
- Related Name
- ماتريدي، ابراهيم، active 18th century
- Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 857H
- Language
- Arabic
- Notes
- Ms. codex.
- Title from label on case.
- Marginal notes and glosses. Inserts. The text is over lined with red. Table of contents for volume 1 on fol. 10b. Kabīkaj (invocation against bookworms) and fawāʼid (vol. 1, fol. 12a). Table of contents for v. 2 (fol. 1b-2a). Vol. II begins with Kitāb al-Buyūʻ. Inscriptions (v. 1, fol. 244b. 245b; vol. 2, fol. 253b-255b).
- Collation: Paper ; fol. 245 + 255 ; catchwords ; foliation in ink using Hindu-Arabic numerals ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
- Layout: 29 lines per page.
- Description: Rubricated ; watermarks (circles topped with a cross) ; MS in good condition.
- Origin: [Volume 1] Copy completed 23 Rabīʻ Awwal 1164 in Damascus (v. 1, fol. 243b) -- [Volume 2] Copy completed Thursday 4 Rajab 1165 by Ibrāhīm ibn ? Muḥammad Aslam al-Ḥasanī al-Malakī al-Ḥanafī al-Māturīdī (v.2, fol. 253a)
- Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم حمدا لك يا من شرحت صدورنا بانواع الهداية سايقا ... وبعد فيقول سيدنا شيخ الاسلام والمسلمين عين المحققين راس المدففين ... محمد علآء الدين ... سميته بالدر المختار في شرح تنوير الابصار ...
- Colophon: کان الفراغ من کتابته ضحوة يوم الخميس رابع شهررجب المعظم سنة خمس وستين ومائة والف على يد الفقير الى ربه الاکرم ابراهيم بن السيد محمد اسلم الحسني المکي الحنفي الما تريدي القادري غفر الله له ولا صوله وفروعه ومشايخه وجميع المسلمين امين وحضرني تاريخ لتمامه عند الفراغ من کتابته وهو لفظ ختمه مسك وصلّى الله على خير خلقه محمد وعلى اله وصحبه وسلم
- Binding Note
- Later type II (with flap) binding in red leather. Blind-stamped mandorla with pendants, corner and edge designs, and decorative edging on covers. Similar decoration on flap. Gold-sprinkled orange paper pastedowns. Both volumes in a single case (217 x 135 mm)
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Item Summary
A commentary on Tanwīr al-abṣār wa-jāmiʻ al-biḥār. The author states in the preface that after composing the first volume of a commentary entitled Khazāʼin al-asrār wa-badāʼiʻ al-afkār, he found that it would be ten volumes; so he composed this present abridged work.
Descriptive Information
- Title
- الدر المختار في شرح تنوير الابصار / تأليف محمد علاء الدين الحنفي.
- Transliterated Title
- al-Durr al-mukhtār fī sharḥ Tanwīr al-abṣār / taʼlīf Muḥammad ʻAlāʼ al-Dīn al-Ḥanafī.
- Call Number
- Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 857H
- Identifier
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcsn00b9108
- Language
- Arabic
- Date Created
- 1751-1752
- Format
- Manuscript
- Extent
- 2 volumes (245, 255 leaves) : paper ; 215 x 130 (160 x 75) mm bound to 213 x 135 mm.
- Provenance
- Ownership signature: Miḥḍār ibn ʻAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad al-Saqqāf dated 1285 (v. 1, fol. 12a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
- Source Acquisition
- Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
- References
- Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1758.
- Khulāṣat al-Athar IV, p. 63.
- Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, III, p. 47.
- Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum orientalium (1846), 222.
- Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 4623-5.
- Rights Statement
- Copyright Not Evaluated
- Notes
- Ms. codex.
- Title from label on case.
- Marginal notes and glosses. Inserts. The text is over lined with red. Table of contents for volume 1 on fol. 10b. Kabīkaj (invocation against bookworms) and fawāʼid (vol. 1, fol. 12a). Table of contents for v. 2 (fol. 1b-2a). Vol. II begins with Kitāb al-Buyūʻ. Inscriptions (v. 1, fol. 244b. 245b; vol. 2, fol. 253b-255b).
- Collation: Paper ; fol. 245 + 255 ; catchwords ; foliation in ink using Hindu-Arabic numerals ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
- Layout: 29 lines per page.
- Description: Rubricated ; watermarks (circles topped with a cross) ; MS in good condition.
- Origin: [Volume 1] Copy completed 23 Rabīʻ Awwal 1164 in Damascus (v. 1, fol. 243b) -- [Volume 2] Copy completed Thursday 4 Rajab 1165 by Ibrāhīm ibn ? Muḥammad Aslam al-Ḥasanī al-Malakī al-Ḥanafī al-Māturīdī (v.2, fol. 253a)
- Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم حمدا لك يا من شرحت صدورنا بانواع الهداية سايقا ... وبعد فيقول سيدنا شيخ الاسلام والمسلمين عين المحققين راس المدففين ... محمد علآء الدين ... سميته بالدر المختار في شرح تنوير الابصار ...
- Colophon: کان الفراغ من کتابته ضحوة يوم الخميس رابع شهررجب المعظم سنة خمس وستين ومائة والف على يد الفقير الى ربه الاکرم ابراهيم بن السيد محمد اسلم الحسني المکي الحنفي الما تريدي القادري غفر الله له ولا صوله وفروعه ومشايخه وجميع المسلمين امين وحضرني تاريخ لتمامه عند الفراغ من کتابته وهو لفظ ختمه مسك وصلّى الله على خير خلقه محمد وعلى اله وصحبه وسلم
- Binding Note
- Later type II (with flap) binding in red leather. Blind-stamped mandorla with pendants, corner and edge designs, and decorative edging on covers. Similar decoration on flap. Gold-sprinkled orange paper pastedowns. Both volumes in a single case (217 x 135 mm)
Physical Characteristics
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- 2
Institutional Information
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- Princeton’s Holdings of the al-Madani Library
- Manuscripts of the Islamic World
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https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/cab2f3aa-c3d3-48ee-825b-0f4df897bba9/manifest