Item Summary

The author's commentary on his Ṣaḥāʼif al-ilāhīyah. At the end of the text, mention of a note written by the author ("ḥikāyat khaṭṭ al-muṣannif") to the effect that this Sharḥ was completed at the end of Rabīʻ al-Ākhir 750(?) [1349]. Another note on the same page refers to the date 653 [1255 or 6] (fol. 110b).

Descriptive Information

Title
شرح الصحائف الكلامية / من منشات السيد الامام افضل ... الانعام شمس الملة والدين السمرقندي
Transliterated Title
Sharḥ al-Ṣaḥāʼif al-kalāmīyah / min manshaʼāt al-Sayyid al-imām afḍal ... al-anʻām Shams al-millah wa-al-dīn al-Samarqandī
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 377B
Identifier
ark:/88435/td96kc04d
Publisher
[ between 14--? and 16--?]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1400-1699
Format
Manuscript
Extent
i, 115, i leaves: paper ; 219 x 120 (166 x 87) mm. bound to 220 x 125 mm.
Provenance
Several ownership statements and seals on fol. 3a. Acquired from Murād Bey Bārūdī, Beirut, 1925.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett coll., 1485
Mach, R. Yahuda, 3092
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 3a).
32 lines per page. Written in small naskh (becoming more hasty from fol. 98b on) in black ink with use of red for re-inking and headings. Dark cream paper with laid and chain lines and pulp visible. A few marginal annotations. Fol. i, 1-2, and lower cover i are later additions on or inlaid in European paper with watermark. Table of contents on fol. 1a-2b. Inscription in Arabic script on fol. (i)a, reading: "Numrah 377". Two spine labels, the second partly wanting, with respectively the title in Arabic script ("Sharḥ al-Ṣaḥāʼif al-kalāmīyah") and the number "77" (377?), in Arabic and Western numerals.
Incipit: الحمد لله الذى ليس لوجوده بداية ولا لجوده نهاية والصلوة على محمد سيد المرسلين وخاتم النبيين وعلى اله واصحابه الطاهرين وبعد فان اجل المعارف واعلاها واشرف المقاصد واولها معرفة الله تعالى وصفاته ... قال الحمد لله الى آخره اقول خطبة كل كتاب ومفتح كل باب ينبغي ان يكون مناسبا له
Explicit: او عدم فهم المعتقد وغير ذلك وقد اودع فى هذا الكتاب من الدلايل والحجج والتحقيقات والتدقيقات ما يفيد هذا المطلوب والحمد لله رب العالمين والصلوة على محمد واله اجمعين
Binding Note
Dark brown leather over paper pasteboards for upper and lower covers. Both covers have a central blind stamped square motif. Paper pastedowns, re-used, with inscriptions in Arabic and Persian.

Discovery Information

Subject
Samarqandī, Muḥammad ibn Ashraf active 13th century—Ṣaḥāʼif al-ilāhīyah
Islam—Doctrines—13th century
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton

Physical Characteristics

File Count
228

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/3b4962da-fbd6-489e-bb63-e3fe74be9256/manifest