Item Summary

A gloss on the gloss of Aḥmad ibn Mūsá al-Khayālī on the commentary of Saʻd al-Dīn al-Taftāzānī on al-ʻAqāʼid al-Nasafīyah.

Descriptive Information

Title
شرح خيالي / قرة كمال.
Transliterated Title
Sharḥ Khayālī / Qarah Kamāl.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 981H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dc0v838c11f
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1700-1799
Extent
210 leaves : paper ; 186 x 114 (131 x 70) mm bound to 186 x 112 mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1551.
Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), IV, p. 221.
Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 1972.
A catalogue of the Arabic manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, 396.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
A few marginal notes and glosses.
Collation: Paper ; fol. 210 + i ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 17 lines per page ; frame-ruled in red with inner and outer frame.
Description: Overlining in red ; watermarks (crown-star-crescent, roman-alphabet initials with trefoil) ; MS in good condition.
Origin: Probably from the XVIIIth century.
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله الذى لا اله سواه ... شرعت بالكتابة متوللا اياه هذا کلامه فقوله في تعقيب التسمية بالتحميد اقتداء باسلوب الكتاب المجيد اراد بالكتاب القرأن ...
Colophon: الحمد لله على ان وفقني لاتمام تحريرهذا الکتاب وانه الکريم الوهاب الملهم للصواب ورحم الله امرءا اذا راى خطأً وسهوا فاصلحه من غير لوم وذمّ
Binding Note
Contemporaneous? type II (with flap) binding in brown leather. Blind-stamped mandorla with pendants and blind-tooled edging. Flap is missing.

Physical Characteristics

File Count
436

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/9e95530b-3b05-4e31-9793-4cf4bd3965c0/manifest