Item Summary

Gloss on the Sharḥ al-Shamsīyah (or Taḥrīr al-qawāʻid al-manṭiqīyah), a commentary on ʻAlī ibn ʻUmar al-Qazwīnī's work on the principles of logic.

Descriptive Information

Title
حاشية السيد الشريف الجرجاني على شرح الشمسية للقطب وشرحه ايضا على الجغميني في علم الهيئة.
Transliterated Title
Ḥāshiyat al-Sayyid al-Sharīf al-Jurjānī ʻalá Sharḥ al-Shamsīyah lil-Quṭb wa-Sharḥuhu ayḍan ʻalá al-Jighmīnī fī ʻilm al-hayʼah.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 477H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcdv140478n
Publisher
[1412]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1412
Format
Manuscript
Extent
95 leaves : paper ; 168 x 130 (91 x 80) mm bound to 168 x 145 mm
Provenance
Several ownership statements on fol. 1a, one signed ʻUmar ibn ʻAbd al-Karīm Ibn ʻAbd al-Rasūl (al-ʻAṭṭār, see ownership statement on fol. (i)b) ; ṭughra for Muḥammad dated 1008 [1599 or 1600] ; another signed Sālim ibn ʻAbd Allāh, dated 1157 [1744 or 5]. Acquired by Robert Garrett from Brill, 1900.
Several ownership statements on fol. 1a, one signed ʻUmar ibn ʻAbd al-Karīm Ibn ʻAbd al-Rasūl (al-ʻAṭṭār, see ownership statement on fol. (i)b) ; another dated 1008 H. [1599 or 1600] ; another signed Sālim ibn ʻAbd Allāh, dated 1157 H. [1744 or 5]. Acquired by Robert Garrett from Brill, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett coll., 840
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a). The second part of the title, starting with wa-Sharḥuhu ayḍan, crossed out in red ink.
Ḥāshiyah and collation notes on the margins. Inscriptions in Arabic and Persian, including a magic square on fol. 93a-b. Two unnumbered fol. before fol. 1, blank except for ownership statement with verses of poetry on the verso of the first unnumbered fol. Several inscriptions on fol. 1a, including three lines of poetry in Arabic and four lines of poetry in Persian. No. "514" using western numerals in black ink on the upper cover.
Collation: Paper ; fol. ii + 92 + i ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 15 lines per page.
Description: Rubricated ; overlining and other use of red ; thin dark cream paper with laid lines and pulp visible.
Origin: Copy completed on 10 Rabīʻ al-Awwal 815 [June 20, 1412] by ʻAbd al-ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn Idrīs (Yūnus?)al-Sā---? (colophon, fol. 92b).
Incipit: قوله ورتبته على مقدمة وثلاث مقالات هكذا وجد عبارة المتن فى كثير من النسخ والصواب انّ.
Explicit: من المبادى التصديقية فلا يكون ايضا جزءاً على حده بل مندرجا فى المبادى التصديقية والله الموفّق للصّواب.
Binding Note
Type II (with flap) binding in red leather over paper pasteboards. Both covers are similarly blind stamped with a central mandorla with two pendants on the vertical axis, inscribed within a large elaborate border. The envelope flap has the outer portion of this border with a small stamp on its point. Paper pastedown. Disbound.

Discovery Information

Subject
Quṭb al-Taḥtānī, Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad 1294 or 1295-1364 or 1365—Sharḥ al-Shamsīyah
Logic—Islamic Empire—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
magic squares
tuǧras
Autographs

Physical Characteristics

File Count
202

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/32b75bdf-68d1-434e-9943-54408b73cb00/manifest