Item Summary

Commentary on Maṭāliʻ al-anwār by Sirāj al-Dīn Maḥmūd ibn Abū Bakr al-Urmawī (d. 682/1283) by al-Iṣfahānī (probably Maḥmūd ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān). See Mach, R. Yahuda, no. 3221 for more detailed information about the identity of the author of the commentary.

Descriptive Information

Title
تنوير المطالع
Transliterated Title
Tanwīr al-Maṭāliʻ.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 3994Y
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/b2773v76k
Publisher
[13--?]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1300-1399
Format
Manuscript
Extent
357 leaves : paper ; 188 x 130 (122 x 90) mm. bound to 190 x 143 mm.
Provenance
Waqf al-Madrasah al-Murādīyah (see stamp on fol. 3a). Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Mach, R. Yahuda, 3221
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from beginning of text (fol. 2a, l. 9).
The author's name appears on fol. 1a (later hand).
15 lines per page. Written in medium large naskh in black ink with use of red. Light cream to orange glazed paper with laid and chain lines visible; frame-ruled. Fol. 59-75 and 84-100 are later replacements (glazed European paper) written in a poor script. Some leaves are missing (e.g. first and last leaves of the first quire, see between fol. 8 and 9). The quires are numbered (see fol. 9a) ; catchword on the verso of each leaf. Foliation in black ink using Arabic numerals (reflecting the foliation before the replacements; with two fol. 328). Foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Label pasted on the pastedown of the upper cover with inscription in Roman script: "Y98". Two labels pasted on the upper cover with inscription in Arabic script, respectively "sh" and "401". Traces of a label (vertical) on the spine.
R. Mach dates this copy from the 8th cent. H.
Incipit: الحمد لله الذى خصّص نوعَ الانسان بالهداية الى دليل توحيده وافاض على نفوسهم... وبعد فقد تطابق آراء ارباب العقل
Beginning of text commented (fol. 2b): بسم ... اللهمّ انا نحمدكَ والحمدُ من الآئك ونشكركَ والشكر من نعمائك
Beginning of commentary (fol. 3a): ش الحمد هو الثناء والنداء على الجميل من نعمه
Explicit: مستعدلا دراك الحقايق وكل ميسر لما خلق له والله اعلم تم الكتاب
Binding Note
Brown leather over paper pasteboards. Yellow paper pasted on upper and lower covers. Paper pastedowns.

Discovery Information

Subject
Urmawī, Sirāj al-Dīn Maḥmūd ibn Abī Bakr 1198-1283—Maṭāliʻ al-anwār
Logic, Medieval—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton

Physical Characteristics

File Count
718

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/703acd4f-1bfe-481a-a2e0-13373e46f774/manifest