Item Summary

A translation of Baḥr al-kalām, an expository treatise on some passages from the Qurʻān explaining various theological questions. The author of the original Arabic work is possibly al-Imām al-Humām Abū al-Muftī, who is mentioned in the introduction.

Descriptive Information

Title
ترجمه بحر الکلام.
Transliterated Title
Tercüme-yi Bahr ül-kelam.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 1184H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcww72bp80g
Date Created
1681
Extent
60 leaves : paper ; 195 x 128 mm
Provenance
Seal impression of al-Sayyid Aḥmad Rifʻat (fol. 1a and 60a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900, from the books of Amīn ibn al-Ḥasan al-Ḥulwānī al-Madanī al-Ḥanafī (Medina).
Source Acquisition
Gift; Robert Garrett (Class of 1897), 1942.
References
Moghadam, M. et al. Garrett coll., 175
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
Collation: Paper ; fol. 60 ; catchwords ; foliation in ink using Hindu-Arabic numerals beginning with number 37 ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 21 lines per page ; frame-ruled in red.
Description: Rubricated ; some headings in blue ; some paper tinted yellow, red, or blue.
Decoration: Simple illuminated headpiece in gold and blue. Opening pages frame-ruled in gold and black (fols. 1b-2a).
Origin: 1092 H [1681 or 1682], by Muṣtafá ibn Muḥammad.
Incipit: الحمد لله الذى الهم حقايق المعانى فى خاطر الانسان و اقدره على تفسيرها
Binding Note
Later quarter-bound type III (without flap) binding in brown leather and marbled paper. Endbands.

Physical Characteristics

File Count
128

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/9ce36945-d399-4ea3-a401-f2b6c06772ff/manifest