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
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1603
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.

Physical Characteristics

File Count
332

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/f3e24f78-25da-4710-bc14-fdffd87d7f9a/manifest