Item Summary

A commentary on the Risālah fī ādāb al-baḥth, a treatise on the rules of dialectics by Shams al-Dīn Fanārī.

Descriptive Information

Title
شرح آداب البحث للفناري / للتوقاتي.
Transliterated Title
Sharḥ Ādāb al-baḥth lil-Fanārī / lil-Tūqātī.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 459H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcng451v06j
Publisher
1105 [1693 or 1694]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1693
Format
Manuscript
Extent
24 leaves : paper ; 225 x 149 (158 x 85) mm. bound to 222 x 150 mm.
Provenance
Ownership signature of Abū al-ʻAṣīm (fol. 1a). Seal impression of al-Sayyid Aḥmad Rifʻat (fol. 1a and 20b). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 917.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from cover.
Marginal notes and glosses. Additional notes in Arabic and Persian on fol. 22b-24b.
Collation: Paper ; fol. 20 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 23 lines per page.
Description: Text in red and commentary in black ; overlining and other use of red ; watermarks (crown and grapes, roman-alphabet letters in an oval "P[heart]C...") ; MS in good condition.
Origin: According to colophon copied 1105 (fol. 20a).
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحىم. اللهم ىا مجىب دعوى السائلىن
Colophon: والرسالة ختمت في سنة خمس ومائة والف من هجرة من له العز الشرف
Binding Note
Later half-bound type III (without flap) binding in red leather and marbled paper. Lightly tinted paper pastedowns.

Discovery Information

Subject
Fanārī, Muḥammad ibn Ḥamzah 1350 or 1351-1430 or 1431—Risālah fī ādāb al-baḥth
Dialectic—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Stamps
Autographs
Watermarks

Physical Characteristics

File Count
56

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/6421091f-9587-494f-a764-421076723724/manifest