Item Summary

Elegant copy (tanmīq, see colophon fol. 105a) of a commentary on al-ʻAqāʼid by ʻAḍud al-Dīn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Aḥmad al-Ījī (d. 756/1355).

Descriptive Information

Title
شرح العقائد العضدية / لمحمد بن اسعد الصديقي الدواني
Transliterated Title
Sharḥ al-ʻAqāʼid al-ʻAḍudīyah / li-Miḥammad ibn Asʻad al-Ṣiddīqī al-Dawwānī.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 928Y
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/9z903248t
Publisher
[1700]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1700
Extent
106 leaves: paper ; 174 x 112 (120 x 62) mm. bound to 174 x 118 mm.
Provenance
Ownership statement signed Ibrāhīm al-Ḥusaynī al-Mālikī, 1168 H., and two seals on fol. 1a. Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Mach, R. Yahuda, 2292
Brockelmann, C. GAL, II, 209 (VII. cmt. 1)
Brockelmann, C. GAL, SII, 291 (VII. cmt. 1)
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
13 lines per page. Written in medium small naskh in black ink with use of red. European glazed paper with watermark. Illuminated headpiece (ʻunwān) in gold and black ink (fol. 3b-4a). The two first pages of the text have a gold and black fillets frame (fol. 3b-4a). The rest of the text is framed within one red fillet. The text has been collated (collation statement fol. 105b). Several ḥāshīyah on the margins (stops after fol. 43b). Modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the pastedown of the upper cover: "Raqm 94".
Elegant copy (tanmīq) by Khalīl ibn Ibrāhīm ibn al-Wālī al-Jibrīlī al-Mārdī(?) completed on 2 Shawwāl 1111 H. (colophon, fol. 105a).
Incipit: يا من وفقنا لتحقيق العقايد الاسلامية ... وبعد فيقول ... ان العقايد العضدية لم تدع قاعدة من اصول العقايد الدينية
Explicit: واغفر لنا وتب علينا انّك انت الكريم التوّاب وصلى الله على سيّدنا ... تسليماً كثيراً فرغ مولفه من تعليقه ضحوة نهار الاربعاء الثامن عشر من شهر مولد النبى ... سنة خمس وتسعماية ببلدة جرون حماها الله تعالى وساير بلاد المسلمين من ريب المنون وآفات القرون ورزقنى الوصول الى قرّة العيون
Binding Note
Brown leather over cardboard. Traces of a now wanting envelope flap. Blind tooled and gold painted central mandorla with radiating rays within a frame made of fillets on upper and lower covers. Red colored paper pastedowns.

Physical Characteristics

File Count
109

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/a107c9b8-690d-4677-90f0-6f0d682215b8/manifest