Item Summary

al-Samarqandī's commentary on al-Risālah al-waḍʻīyah, a gloss on the commentary, and a compendium on the terminology of jurisprudence.

Descriptive Information

Title
الكشفية على شرح العضدية ... [الخ.]
Transliterated Title
al-Kashfīyah ʻalá Sharḥ al-ʻAḍudīyah ... [etc.]
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 458H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dc1z40m480s
Publisher
Burūzhah, [Turkey?] 1194 [1780]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1780
Format
Manuscript
Extent
69 leaves : paper ; 207-222 x 145-162 (163-160 x 103 x 110) mm bound to 225 x 170 mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1630.
Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), V, p. 73.
Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, IV, p. 163.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Contents
1. fol. 1a-13b: al-Kashfīyah ʻalá Sharḥ al-ʻAḍudīyah / Aḥmad al-Jahūl al-Shāhī. Gloss on al-Samarqandī's commentary on al-Risālah al-waḍʻīyah. Autograph copy incomplete at end.
2. fol. 20a: [Fragment of a text]
3. fol. 20b-48b: Sharḥ al-Risālah al-Waḍīyah / li-Khwājah ʻAlī al-Samarqandī. Commentary on al-Risālah al-waḍʻīyah. Incomplete at end.
4. fol. 57a-64a: [Miscellaneous notes]
5. 65a-68b: Kitāb al-Ḥudūd fī al-uṣūl fī bayān al-kashf al-alfāẓ / [ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad al-Khilāṭī]
6. 69b: [Notes]
Notes
Ms. composite codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
Marginal and interlinear notes. Insert after fol. 64 describes the MS and has embossed stamp: athar jadīd, ʻahd humāyūn. Blank folios bound between the primary works.
Collation: Paper ; fol. iv + 69 + viii ; catchwords ; various foliations using Hindu-Arabic numerals ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 17-19 lines per page ; folios 1-8 frame-ruled in red.
Description: Text in red and commentary in black ; overlining in red ; watermarks (fol. 1-13: crown; fol. 14-19: eagle with roman-alphabet letters "GFA", coat-of-arms; fol. 49-56: eagle with roman-alphabet letters "GFA", three crescents; fol. 59-62: three crescents; endpapers: three crescents and roman-alphabet cursive letters "AM") ; MS in fair condition.
Origin: [Kitāb al-Ḥudūd] Copied 1194 in Burūzhah (fol. 68b).
Incipit: [الكشفية] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله الذى لا مض لا وليته ولا اول لا خريته ... وبعد فيقول المستعين بالله القوى ... -- [شرح الرسالة الوضعية] بسم فالباء وسائر الحروف واسماء الاشارات والموصولات والمضمرات كلها موضوعة لكل واحد من معانيها ... -- [كتاب الحدود] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه تستعين کتاب الحدود في الاصول في بيان کشف الالفاظ ...
Colophon: [الكشفية] تمت رد [در] يوم الثلثاء وقت العصر جاء ثلج مع الريح العاصف رد [در] قرية بروژه [بروسه] سنة 1194
Binding Note
Later half-bound type III (without flap) binding in red leather and gray and red marbled paper. Yellow-green paper pastedowns and flyleaves.

Discovery Information

Subject
Arabic language—Semantics—Early works to 1800
Arabic philology—Early works to 1800
Arabic language—Grammar—Early works to 1800
Language and languages—Philosophy—Early works to 1800
Samarqandī, Abū al-Qāsim ibn Abī Bakr active 15th century—Sharḥ al-Waḍʻīyah
Ījī, ʻAḍud al-Dīn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Aḥmad -1355?—Risālah al-waḍʻīyah
Islamic law—Terminology—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
holographs (autographs)
impressed watermarks
Watermarks

Physical Characteristics

File Count
178

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/b5187bcb-b0d7-46a5-ae5e-a3d2cdce07c5/manifest