Item Summary

A commentary on al-Risālah al-Shamsīyah, a work on logic by ʻAlī al-Qazwīnī.

Descriptive Information

Title
تحرير القواعد المنطقية في شرح الرسالة الشمسية.
Transliterated Title
Taḥrīr al-qawāʻid al-manṭiqīyah fī sharḥ al-Risālah al-Shamsīyah.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 117L
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dctd96kf58d
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1825
Extent
161 leaves : paper ; 208 x 113 (150 x 55) mm bound to 211 x 110 mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1904.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 837.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from preface (fol. 2a).
Marginal notes. Contains tables with labels but no other contents. Label on upper cover "12 MR". Inscriptions on pastedowns, preliminary folios, and folios following the colophon including animal (bird?) doodles and a secret alphabet.
Collation: Paper ; fol. (1) + 161 + ii ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 16 lines per page.
Origin: According to colophon copy completed 25 Rabīʻ al-Ākhir 1241 by Zayn al-ʻĀbidīn al-Ḥusaynī walad Ḥājjī Āqā al-Ḥusaynī al-Māzandarānī (fol. 161b).
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه نستعين ان ابهى درر تنظم بنبان البيان وازهر زهر ... وبعد فقد طال الحاج الملحين المشتغلين على المتردد الى ان اشرح لهم الرسالة الشمسية وابين فيه القواعد المنطقية ...
Colophon: قد فرغ تسويد هذا الكتاب مسمى بشمسية في يوم خمس وعشرين شهر ربيع الاخر من سنه احدى واربعون ومائتان بعد الف من هجرة النبوية اقل الخليقه بل لا شئى فى الخقيقه زين العابدين الحسينى ولد حاجى آقا الحسينى المازندرانى اللهم اغفر لها بحق خمسه النجنأ
Description: Rubricated ; text commented upon overlined in red ; watermarks (coat-of-arms with an arrow; column topped with a crown and Greek-alphabet letters "ΤΦ ϹΥ" ; "1823") ; MS in good condition.
Binding Note
Later? type III (without flap) binding in dark brown leather. Decorative blind-tooled edging. Light blue paper pastedowns. Spine repaired with red leather.

Physical Characteristics

File Count
336

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/a41a75db-746c-41d1-a701-8257a7e46c7a/manifest