Item Summary

Gloss on the commentary by Maḥmūd ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān al-Iṣfahānī (d. 749/1348) on Tajrīd al-ʻaqāʼid by Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī.

Descriptive Information

Title
حاشية التجريد / للفاضل الشريف
Transliterated Title
Ḥāshiyat al-Tajrīd / lil-Fāḍil al-Sharīf.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 874Y
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/9w032563v
Publisher
[1467 or 1468]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1467
Format
Manuscript
Extent
267, i leaves: paper ; 180 x 133 (133 x 74) mm. bound to 180 x 137 mm.
Provenance
On fol. 2a: Reading statements (one dated 972 H., while the reader was mudarris in the madrasah --- in Qusṭanṭinīyah) ; hexagonal seal. On fol. 3a: Three ownership statements, one obliterated ; another crossed out, signed al-Ḥājj Aḥmad ibn [---] and dated 1161 H. [1748] ; the third signed Aḥmad Nūr al-Dīn al-Qāḍī ʻAskar Anāṭūlī, known as Nūḥādīʹzādah. Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Mach, R. Yahuda, 3063
Brockelmann, C. GAL, I, 509 (8/II.2. cmt. b/gloss a) ; SI, 926
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from note on fol. 2a.
23 lines per page. Written in small thick nastaʻlīq. The text is framed within a single red line on fol. 3b-82b. Basmalah in glittering ink (fol. 3b). Thin ivory glazed paper with laid lines visible. Fol. 1 is a later added flyleaf on European glazed paper, with inscriptions. Ḥāshiyah on the margins (beginning of text). Foliation in red ink using Arabic numerals. Short excerpts and several inscriptions on fol. 2a, including a note mentioning the title and stating that the copyist, namely Muṣṭafá ibn Muḥammad al-Qāḍī, was the grandfather of the writer of the note, Muṣṭafá ibn Aḥmad ibn Muṣṭafá. Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the upper cover: "Tawḥīd 111(?)". Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the pastedown of the upper cover: "Ḥāʼ 86".
Copy completed by Muṣṭafá ibn Muḥammad in 872 H. (colophon, fol. 267a ; see also note on fol. 2a).
Incipit: قوله امّا بعد حمد واجب الوجود خصّ بالذكر من بين صفاته العلى ما هو اخصّ به تعالى اعنى الودوب الذاتى لا نطوايها على سايرها اذ هو معدن لكل كمال
Explicit: بتاثر المتاثر بقبول تلك الصفة فيكون هناك متاثريه اخرى وهكذا ويلزم التسلسل تمت
Binding Note
Dark brown leather over paper pasteboards for upper and lower covers. Both covers have a central mandorla in gold and tooling, and an outer frame made of blind tooled and gold fillets (only partially visible). Edges and spine repaired. Paper pastedowns.

Discovery Information

Subject
Islam—Doctrines—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Ṭūsī, Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad 1201-1274—Tajrīd al-iʻtiqād
Iṣfahānī, Maḥmūd ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān 1275 or 1276-1348 or 1349—Tashyīd al-Qawāʻid

Physical Characteristics

File Count
273

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/24d7a84a-a444-470b-901e-99ac2a3afd2b/manifest