Item Summary

al-Quṭb al-Taḥtānī's Sharḥ al-Shamsīyah and al-Jurjānī's gloss on it.

Descriptive Information

Title
[حاشية على شرح الشمسية] ... [الخ.]
Transliterated Title
[Ḥāshiyah ʻalá Sharḥ al-Shamsīyah] ... [etc.]
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 121L
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcd504rz389
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1826
Extent
206 leaves : paper ; 212 x 152 (141 x 70) mm bound to 216 x 157 mm.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 2157.
Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), IV, p. 76.
Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 5258.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Contents
1. fol. 1b-82a: [Ḥāshiyah ʻalá Sharḥ al-Shamsīyah]. 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.
2. fol. 85b-204b: [Sharḥ Shamsīyah]. A commentary by al-Taḥtānī on al-Shamsīyah fī al-manṭiq, a work on logic by al-Qazwīnī al-Kātibī. Contains tables.
Notes
Ms. composite codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Marginal notes. Label on upper cover "19 M.T.". Inscriptions and seal impressions (fol. 1a). Inscriptions between and after the works (fol. 83b-84b and 205b). Inscription dated 1248 on lower pastedown.
Collation: Paper ; fol. 206 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 23 lines per page ; ruled.
Description: Rubricated ; watermarks (fol. 1-84: cross, countermark roman-alphabet initials "GB"; fol. 85-205: coat-of-arms with crossed swords) ; MS in good condition.
Origin: [Sharḥ Shamsīyah] Copy completed 12 Rajab 1241 (fol. 204b). Both texts apparently written in the same hand.
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, A.D. 1904.
Incipit: [حاشية على شرح الشمسية] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه نستعين قوله ورتبته على مقدمة وثلث مقالات وخاتمة اقول هكذا وجد عبارة المتن فى كثير من النسخ ... -- [شرح شمسية] وبه نستعين بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم قال ورتبته على مقدمته وثلث مقالات وخاتمه معتصما ... اقول الرسالة مرتبة على مقدمة وثلث مقالات وخاتمه اما المقدمه ...
Colophon: [حاشية على شرح الشمسية] ... والله اعلم بالصواب واليه المرجع والمابن -- [شرح شمسية] تمت الشمسية بعون الخالق البريه فى يوم ثانى عشر من شهر رجب المرحب على يد اول الطلبه احمد بن ملا ؟ ... سنه 1241 ... تم تم تم تم تم تم تم تم تم
Binding Note
Later type III (without flap) binding in dark brown leather. Blind-stamped mandorla with pendants and blind-tooled edging. Multi-colored endbands.

Physical Characteristics

File Count
420

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/cbcdc36c-3754-4fd4-8899-03f5f829c410/manifest