Item Summary

A commentary on al-ʻAwāmil al-miʼah.

Descriptive Information

Title
شرح العوامل.
Transliterated Title
Sharḥ al-ʻAwāmil.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 300H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcb8515z644
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1666
Extent
(1), 41 (2) leaves : paper ; 202 x 140 (150 x 70) mm. bound to 204 x 141 mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Owner's signature on folio before the first: Muṣṭafá Darajak. A seal impression dated 1178 appears on both fol. 10a and 41b.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 6479.
Brockelmann, GAL, I, p. 287.
Catalogue des manuscrits arabes de la Bibliothèque Nationale, 3993¹.
Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), IV, p. 279.
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 315.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Collation: Paper ; fol. (1) + 41 + (2) ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Description: Overlining and other use of red ; watermarks (crown with a fleur-de-lis and a crescent on top, roman-alphabet letters "IC" with a staff[?] in between ) ; MS in good condition.
Layout: 19 lines per page.
Marginal notes and glosses.
Ms. codex.
Origin: According to colophon copied 1077 (fol. 41b).
Title from colophon (fol. 41b).
Colophon: تم شرح العوامل سنة 1077
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم توجهنا الى جنابك وقصدنا نحو بابك
Binding Note
Paper wrapped around type II (with flap) binding in brown leather and marbled paper. Gold-stamped mandorla and corner pieces. Similar decoration on flap. Paper wrapper has an unrelated statement inside written in gold-flecked ink in Ottoman Turkish dated 1135.

Physical Characteristics

File Count
109

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/0264f121-d2e8-4408-90da-fc18a08b8970/manifest