Item Summary

Commentary on Tajrīd al-ʻaqāʼid by Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī. This copy starts with Maqṣad 2 (see note on the lower corner of fol. 4a).

Descriptive Information

Title
شرح التجريد / لعلي القوشجي
Transliterated Title
Sharḥ al-Tajrīd / li-ʻAlī al-Qūshjī.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 2500Y
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/wd375z90z
Publisher
[ 1563]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1563
Format
Manuscript
Extent
iii, 212, iii leaves: paper ; 259 x 133 (168 x 61) mm. bound to 258 x 143 mm.
Provenance
Several ownership statements on fol. 4a, signed Ibn Muḥammad Ṣādiq Muḥammad Ḥasan ; Aḥmad Najīb ibn Aḥmad Ṭāhir [19th cent.] ; Muḥammad Afandī. Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Mach, R. Yahuda, 3068
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from fol. 1a.
20 to 22 lines per page. Written in medium small nastaʻlīq in black ink with use of red. European glazed paper with watermark and light cream paper with laid lines and pulp visible. Fol. 182-215 are inlaid leaves (originally 179 x 126 mm.), with 21 lines to the page. The date given in the colophon refers to these last leaves. Ḥāshīyah and short excerpts on the margins. Catchword on the verso of each leaf. Modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals, counting the first three endleaves as fol. 1-3. Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the upper cover: "ʻAqāʼid 48". Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on fol. 2b: "Ḥāʼ 1247".
Copy completed on Saturday 5 Dhū al-Qaʻdah 970 [June 26, 1563] (colophon, fol. 215a).
Incipit: المقصد الثاني في الجواهر والاعراض وفيه فصول الاول في الجواهر قدم مباحثها على مباحث الاعراض لان وجود العرض
Explicit: واذا ظن كل طايفة انه لم يقم به الآخر اثم الكل تركه هذا آخر ما يتيسر لنا من شرح تجريد الكلام والحمد لله على التوفيق للاتمام
Binding Note
Golden brown leather over paper pastedown for upper and lower covers, fore-edge flap and envelope flap. The covers have a blind-tooled frame consisting of fillets and stamps. Blue and yellow marbled paper pastedowns.

Discovery Information

Subject
Ṭūsī, Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad 1201-1274—Tajrīd al-iʻtiqād
طوسي، نصير الدين محمد بن محمد—تجريد الكلام
Islam—Doctrines—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton

Physical Characteristics

File Count
224

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/8e990885-b958-4809-a500-904b5a6cd30b/manifest