Item Summary

al-Rūmī's commentary on a work on geometry, a commentary on al-Ṭahāwī's work on the articles of faith, and some fawāʼid.

Descriptive Information

Title
[شرح] اشكال التأسيس ... [الخ.]
Transliterated Title
[Sharḥ] Ashkāl al-taʼsīs ... [etc.]
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 155L
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcs4655v64m
Publisher
[1345-1799?]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1345-1799
Format
Manuscript
Extent
24 leaves : paper ; 200 x 145 (145-160 x 95-114) mm bound to 203 x 157 mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1904.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 2159.
Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), I, p. 322.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Contents
1. fol. [i]b-4b: [Sharḥ] Ashkāl al-taʼsīs. A commentary by Qāḍīʹzādah al-Rūmī on Ashkāl al-taʼsīs, a work on geometry by Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad al-Samarqandī. Copy incomplete at the end. Contains diagrams.
2. fol. 5a-23a: Sharḥ ʻAqīdat al-Imām al-ʻĀlim al-Zāhid Abī Jaʻfar al-Ṭahāwī. A commentary on ʻAqīdat al-Ṭaḥāwī, a work on the articles of faith by al-Ṭaḥāwī. MS incomplete at the beginning.
3. fol. 23b-24b: [Inscriptions]
Notes
Ms. composite codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Marginal notes. Label on upper cover "M X no. 14".
Collation: Paper ; fol. i + 24 ; collation note (fol. 23a) ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 14-26 lines per page.
Description: Second work has vowel signs ; watermarks (fol. 1-4: crown, horse?, roman-alphabet lettering) ; MS in fair condition.
Origin: [Sharḥ Ashkāl al-taʼsīs] Probably from the XVIIIth century -- [Sharḥ ʻAqīdat] Copy completed 6 Dhū al-Ḥijjah 754[?] (fol. 23a).
Incipit: [شرح اشكال] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه العون الحمد لله الذي خلق كل شيئ بقدر وقدر له ما يليق به من الاشكال والصور ... وبعد فان الهندسة مع متانه مسائلها وثاقة دلائلها ... -- [شرح عقيدة] ... الي ان علمه ومشيته ازلية والي اتبات القضا والقدر ...
Colophon: [شرح اشكال] ... هوب دوذا لك ما اردناه الثالث -- [شرح عقيدة] تم كتاب شرح عقيده الامام العالم الزاهد ابي جعفر الطحاوي رحمه الله بحمد الله وعونه ومنه وكرمه وصلى الله علي سيدنا محمد واله وصحبه وسلم عفر الله ... كتب باريخ سادس 1ي الحجه سنه ربعه؟ وخمسين وسبعماية وحسن الله ونعم الوكليل
Binding Note
Later type III (without flap) limp binding in red leather. Internal cover consists of violet paper.

Discovery Information

Subject
Samarqandī, Muḥammad ibn Ashraf active 13th century—Ashkāl al-taʼsīs
Ṭaḥāwī, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad 852?-933—ʻAqīdat ahl al-sunnah wa-al-jamāʻah
Geometry—Early works to 1800
Mathematics, Arab—Early works to 1800
Islam—Doctrines—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
diagrams
Watermarks

Physical Characteristics

File Count
58

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/7c8846bb-2d3d-4e04-95df-5a770114a783/manifest