Item Summary

A collection of Arabic and Persian texts on Islamic law, logic and dialectics.

Descriptive Information

Title
شرح شمسية مع اربع نسخ.
Transliterated Title
Sharḥ Shamsīyah maʻa arbaʻ nusakh.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 349L
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dch702qk67t
Publisher
[18th century?]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1700-1799
Format
Manuscript
Extent
200 leaves : paper ; 260 x 155 (135-155 x 78-87) mm bound to 262 x 155 mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill. Leyden, A.D. 1904.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 2054.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Contents
1. fol. 1b-117b: Sharḥ Wiqāyat al-riwāyah fī masāʼil al-Hidāyah, by ʻUbayd Allāh ibn Masʻūd al-Maḥbūbī, a commentary on Burhān al-Sharīʻah's abridgment of al-Marghīnānī's Hidāyah.
2. fol. 118a-124a: Risālat uṣūl al-fiqh. A short treatise on the elements of jurisprudence.
3. fol. 125b-133b: [al-Risālah al-Ḥanafīyah]. A commentary on ʻAḍud al-Dīn al-Ījī's ʻAḍudīyah, a treatise on dialectic.
4. fol. 134b-157a: [Commentary on al-Risālah fī qawāʻid al-manṭiqīyah]. A commentary on al-Shamsīyah, a work on logic by al-Qazwīnī al-Kātibī.
5. fol. 162b-198b: [Commentary on al-Risālah fī qawāʻid al-manṭiqīyah]. Persian commentary on al-Shamsīyah, a work on logic by al-Qazwīnī al-Kātibī.
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from label on upper cover.
List of contents (fol. 1a). Inscriptions (fol. 158a and 152a). Inscriptions in Persian (fol. 189b-200b). Label on lower cover: "F.G 7".
Collation: Paper ; fol. 200 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 9-17 lines per page ; fol. 1-11 frame-ruled in red, other scattered pages frame-ruled in red.
Description: Rubricated ; MS in good condition.
Decoration: Illuminated headpiece design of red and black lines and dots (fol. 1b). Basmalah decorated with a frame of red dots (fol. 118a).
Origin: Probably from the XVIIIth century.
Incipit: [شرح وقاية] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله رافع اعلام الشريعه الغراء جا عليها شجرة ... وبعد فان العبد المتوصل الى الله تعالى باقواى الذريعة عبيد الله ابن مسعود ابن تاج الشريعة ... -- [رسالة اصول الفقه] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله رب العالمين والعاقب للمتقين ... اعلم ان العبد متبلا بين ان يطع الله تعالى -- [الرسالة الحهفية] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم لك الحمد جعل الله تعالى مخاطبا تنبيها على القرب ... -- [Commentary 1] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم ولما اشار الى من سعيد بلطف الحق والدين بتحرير كتاب كذا وكذا فبدرت بمقتضى اشارت وشرعت فى تحريره وتصنيفه وسميته بالرساله فى قواعد المنطقية
Colophon: [شرح وقاية] تمت النسخة الشريفة الى يوم خمس وعشرون من شهر رمضان واتبرك فى عبده ... على يد الفقير ملا طاهرين تمت الكتاب بعون ملك الوهاب -- [رسالة اصول الفقه] تمت الكتاب بعون الكريم الوهاب -- [رسالة الحهفية] تمت الرسالة برحمك يا ارحم الرحمين
Binding Note
Later type III (without flap) painted and lacquered? binding in dark brown leather. Color-stamped mandorla with pendants outlined in yellow. Decorative edging with yellow, green, gold and orange paint. Multi-colored endbands. Spine replaced.

Discovery Information

Subject
Burhān al-Sharīʻah, Maḥmūd ibn ʻUbayd Allāh -1274 or 1275—Wiqāyat al-riwāyah
Ījī, ʻAḍud al-Dīn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Aḥmad -1355?—ʻAḍudīyah
Qazwīnī, ʻAlī ibn ʻUmar 1203 or 1204-1276 or 1277—Shamsīyah
Dialectic—Early works to 1800
Hanafites—Early works to 1800
Islam—Customs and practices—Early works to 1800
Islamic law—Interpretation and construction—Early works to 1800
Logic—Early works to 1800
Muslims—Conduct of life—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Manuscripts, Persian—New Jersey—Princeton
Blind tooled bindings
illuminated manuscripts
headpieces (layout features)
Headbands
Lacquered bindings
Painted leather bindings

Physical Characteristics

File Count
406

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/592c1f6e-2db8-4284-9bc2-2d2768edf805/manifest