Item Summary

On a passage in Sharḥ al-Wiqāyah concerning Sūrat al-Isrāʼ, verse 78 (Sūrah 17:78).

Descriptive Information

Title
رسالة في تفسير قوله تعالى لدلوك الشمس والادلة الهندسية وفيها سمت القبلة.
Transliterated Title
Risālah fī tafsīr qawlihi taʻālá li-dulūk al-shams wa-al-adillah al-handasīyah wa-fīhā samt al-qiblah.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 682H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dch415pn26h
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1598
Extent
6 leaves : paper, illustrations ; 200 x 155 (135 x 80) mm bound to 201 x 155 mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1307.
Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 5701/2.
Rieu, Supplement of the catalogue of the Arabic Mss, 761H.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
A few marginal notes. The work is illustrated by several diagrams in red and black ink.
Collation: Paper ; fol. i + 6 + iii ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 23 lines per page.
Description: MS in good condition.
Origin: According to colophon copied 1 Shaʻbān 1006 by the author (fol. 6b).
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله رب العالمين والصلوة والسلام على نبيه محمد سيد الاولين والاخرين ... فيقول الفقير الى الله العالى حسين الحسيني الخلحالى لما كان اشرف الطاعات بعد الايمان هو الصلوة امرا لله تعالى بها وعين وقتها
Colophon : تم تأليف هذه الرسالة في غرة شعبان المعظم من شهور سنة ست والف نفع الله للطالبين بها ويرحم الساعين لمعرفة مافيها . م.م.م
Binding Note
Later type III (without flap) binding in green leather. Pink paper pastedowns and flyleaves.

Physical Characteristics

File Count
30

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/7795ecd6-2b77-460a-bbff-80c1bedc400f/manifest