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شرح رسالة الوزير ابي الوليد ابن زيدون.
Sharḥ Risālat al-Wazīr Abī al-Walīd Ibn Zaydūn.
1805
A commentary on the epistle of Ibn Zaydūn to Ibn ʻAbdūs. The commentary is commonly known as Sarḥ al-ʻuyūn fī sharḥ Risālat Ibn Zaydūn.
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- Arabic
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Item Summary
A commentary on the epistle of Ibn Zaydūn to Ibn ʻAbdūs. The commentary is commonly known as Sarḥ al-ʻuyūn fī sharḥ Risālat Ibn Zaydūn.
Descriptive Information
- Title
- شرح رسالة الوزير ابي الوليد ابن زيدون.
- Transliterated Title
- Sharḥ Risālat al-Wazīr Abī al-Walīd Ibn Zaydūn.
- Call Number
- Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 18L
- Identifier
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcjq085x812
- Language
- Arabic
- Date Created
- 1805
- Format
- Manuscript
- Extent
- 148 leaves : paper ; 170 x 119 (135 x 73) mm bound to 173 x 125 mm.
- Provenance
- Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1904.
- Source Acquisition
- Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
- References
- Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 191.
- Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), III, pp. 358, 590.
- Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 8606-7.
- Rights Statement
- Copyright Not Evaluated
- Notes
- Ms. codex.
- Title from preface (fol. 1b).
- A few marginal notes and glosses.
- Collation: Paper ; fol. 148 ; quires signed: 1-15 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
- Layout: 19 lines per page ; ruled.
- Description: Rubricated ; watermarks (shield with a face-in-the-moon and roman-alphabet letters "AG") ; MS in good condition but worm-eaten. Not sewn.
- Origin: According to colophon copy completed Sunday 20 Jumādá al-Thāniyah 1220 (fol. 148b).
- Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم. الحمد لله الذي لايجب الحمد الا له ... وبعد فاني امرت بشرح رسالة الوزير ابي الوليد اين زيدون ...
- Colophon: ... وکان الفراغ من تحريرها وتنقيحها وتسطيرها في يوم الاحد المبارك الموافق لعشرين من جمادى الثانية من شهور سنة 1220 من هجرة من له العزّ والشرف على يد الفقير ... الله له وبوالديه والمسلمين امين ...
- Binding Note
- Contemporaneous type II (with flap) binding in dark brown leather. Color-stamped mandorla and blind-tooled edging. Red paper pastedowns. Flap is missing.
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- File Count
- 304
Institutional Information
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- Princeton’s Holdings of the al-Madani Library
- Manuscripts of the Islamic World
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https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/490cc521-42c2-4487-9cbd-4da12714b967/manifest