Item Summary

A commentary on the verses of poetry quoted or referred to in al-Muṭawwal and al-Mukhtaṣar. Followed by the short text of Risālah al-waḍʻīyah by ʻAḍud al-Dīn.

Descriptive Information

Title
[شرح شواهد المطول والمختصر] ... [الخ.]
Transliterated Title
[Sharḥ shawāhid al-Muṭawwal wa-al-Mukhtaṣar] ... [etc.].
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 429H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dccn69mf608
Publisher
Jumādá II, 1012 [November 1603]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1603
Format
Manuscript
Extent
159 leaves : paper ; 210 x 143 (145 x 65) mm bound to 209 x 152 mm.
Provenance
Ownership signatures: Muṣṭafá ibn ʻAbd Allāh Ilyāsʹzādah dated [1]216, Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad Afandī dated '23, ʻAbd al-Laṭīf ibn ʻAbd al-Salām al-Zamzamī, Miḥḍār ibn ʻAbd Allāh ibn al-Sayyid Muḥammad al-Saqqāf (fol. 1a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 549.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Contents
1. fol. 1a: [ownership signatures]
2. fol. 1b-157b: [Sharḥ shawāhid al-Muṭawwal wa-al-Mukhtasar]
3. fol. 158b-159b: Fāyidah / ʻAḍud al-Millah wa-al-Dīn.
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
A few marginal notes and glosses. Author of main text is perhaps Zayn al-Dīn ʻAbd al-Raḥīm ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān al-Qāhirī al-ʻAbbāsī, 963 [1555/6], this work being an abridgment of his larger work Maʻāhid al-tanṣīṣ ʻalá shawāhid al-Talkhīṣ (see Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), II, p. 411). Title appears on the lower edge.
Collation: Paper ; fol. i + 159 ; catchwords ; foliation every ten folios using Hindu-Arabic numerals ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 21 lines per page ; frame-ruled in red. Fols. 1b-2a frame-ruled in gold.
Description: Watermarks (anchor) ; MS in good condition.
Origin: [Sharḥ shawāhid] Copied middle of Jumādá II,1012 by ʻAbd al-Ḥalīm ibn Rajab al-Mulāzim (fol. 157b) -- [Fāyidah] Copied 20 Jumādá II,1012 (fol. 159b).
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم. رب تمم بالخير. شرح ابيات تضمنها مقدمة الکتاب قوله غدايره
Colophon: تمت هذه النسخة في اواسط جمادى الاخرة في سنة 1012 على يد الفقير عبد الحليم بن رجب الملازم
Binding Note
Contemporaneous? type II (with flap) binding in brown leather. Blind-stamped mandorla with gold painted outline. Gold-tooled and decorative rolled edging on covers. Similar decoration on flap. Brown paper pastedowns.

Discovery Information

Subject
Taftāzānī, Masʻūd ibn ʻUmar 1322-1389?—Sharḥ al-mukhtaṣar
Taftāzānī, Masʻūd ibn ʻUmar 1322-1389?—Muṭawwal
Qazwīnī, Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān 1267 or 1268-1338—Talkhīṣ Miftāḥ al-ʻulūm
Arabic language—Rhetoric—Early works to 1800
Arabic language—Semantics—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Blind tooled bindings
Gold tooled bindings
Autographs

Physical Characteristics

File Count
332

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/f3e24f78-25da-4710-bc14-fdffd87d7f9a/manifest