Item Summary

A commentary on al-Farāʼiḍ al-Sirājīyah.

Descriptive Information

Title
روح الشروح.
Transliterated Title
Rūḥ al-shurūḥ.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 922H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dc5712mk08c
Publisher
Shawwāl 982 [1575]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1575
Format
Manuscript
Extent
226 leaves : paper ; 215 x 153 (150 x 75) mm bound to 210 x 163 mm.
Provenance
Signatures: Yūsuf ibn Ilyās al-shahīr bi-Rāzī with his seal impression; Abū Salwá; Muṣṭafá ibn al-Sayyid Mūsá; Muḥammad al-madʻū bi-Shaykhʹzādah (fol. 1a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1874.
Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), IV, p. 403.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from folio 1a.
Marginal and interlinear notes and glosses. Prayer (fol. 225b) and tradition (fol. 226a) following the colophon.
Collation: Paper ; fol. 226 ; catchwords ; collation note ; foliation in ink using Hindu-Arabic numerals ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 19 lines per page.
Description: Text commented upon overlined in red ; watermarks (anchor, palm, cross, other unidentified) ; MS in good condition, mended. Some bleedthrough; significant smearing in the margins either deliberate erasure of earlier marginalia, or caused by moisture.
Origin: According to colophon copy completed Friday in mid-Shawwāl 982 by Ḥusayn ibn Niʻmat Allāh ibn Qūrah Faqīh (fol. 224b).
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه نستعين الحمد لله الذي تفرد ذاته بالقدم والبقاء وتقدس ضفائه ... وبعد فان العلوم الشرعية هى ذرايع السعادة الدنيوية ووسايل
Colophon: وقد وقع الفراغ من تحرير هذه النسخة الشريفة المبارکة يوم الجمعة من نصف شوال عظم الله شأنه في وقت الظهرعلى يد اضعف الناس وافقرالعباد المحتاج الى ربه الخلاق حسين بن نعمة الله بن قوره فقيه غفرالله له ولوالديه ولجميع المسلمين اجمعين. التاريخ سنة اثنا و ثمانين وتسعمائة تم
Binding Note
Type II (with flap) binding in brown leather and marbled paper. Endbands.

Discovery Information

Subject
Sajāwandī, Sirāj al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad active 12th century—Farāʼiḍ al-Sirājīyah
Inheritance and succession (Islamic law)—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Headbands
Autographs
Stamps
Watermarks

Physical Characteristics

File Count
466

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/bb71d7bf-2444-4587-ae5e-cffb693c654e/manifest