Item Summary

A commentary on Taʻlīm al-mutaʻallim fī ṭarīq al-taʻallum.

Descriptive Information

Title
[شرح تعليم المتعلم في طريق التعلم].
Transliterated Title
[Sharḥ Taʻlīm al-mutaʻallim fī ṭarīq al-taʻallum]
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 497H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dccv43p7381
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1764
Extent
(1), 62, (2) leaves : paper ; 195 x 130 (143 x 76) mm. bound to 193 x 126 mm.
Provenance
Seal impressions on fol. (1)a. Ownership signature of Ibrāhīm Afandī in Arabic and Ottoman Turkish on fol. 1a. Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 786.
Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), II, p. 325.
Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, VII, p. 175.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
A few marginal notes. Folios 1-37 are by one hand and folios 38-60 by another. Inscriptions on upper pastedown, fol. (1)a-2a and 62b including a fāʼidah about belief and proper behavior on fol. 1a.
Collation: Paper ; fol. (1) + 62 + (2), folio 62 also labeled "(1)" ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 17 lines per page ; fols. 1-38 frame-ruled in red.
Description: Rubricated ; watermarks (design in a circle) ; text overlined in red ; MS in good condition.
Origin: According to colophon copied 1178 (fol. 61b).
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه تستعين الحمد لله الذي انزل علينا بانواع النعم ولطايف الاحسان ... وبعد فلما رأيت الكتاب المسمى بتعلم العلم مرغوبا بين اولى التعليم والتعلم خصوصا بين الطالبين ...
Colophon: تمت [تم] الکتاب بعون الله الملك الوهاب في وقت الظهر ينادي المؤذ[ن] على [ال]منارة سنة 1178
Binding Note
Later quarter-bound type III (without flap) binding in light brown leather and blue and yellow marbled paper.

Physical Characteristics

File Count
136

Institutional Information

Collection
Princeton’s Holdings of the al-Madani Library
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/9a958747-536d-410a-bb83-b92d5a0fb54a/manifest