Item Summary

Descriptive Information

Title
شرح عقائد / لسعد الدين.
Transliterated Title
Sharḥ ʻAqāʼid / li-Saʻd al-Dīn.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 1000Y
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/g158bk91t
Publisher
[16th century?]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1500-1599
Format
Manuscript
Extent
61 leaves : paper ; 227 x 128 (150 x 75) mm bound to 206 x 130 mm.
Provenance
Ownership signatures and seal impressions (fol. 1a), signature of ʻAlī ibn Ḥusayn (fol. 58b).
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Mach, R. Catalogue of Arabic Manuscripts (Yahuda Section), 2225.
Brockelmann, GAL, I, 548 (commentary 1); S I, 758.
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from folio 1a.
Heavily annotated in the margins and between the lines. Inscriptions (fol. 1a). Label on upper and lower pastedowns: "ELS No. 1000". Other bookdealer's label and notes attached to both pastedowns.
Collation: Paper ; fol. i + 61 ; collation note (fol. 58b) ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 21 lines per page.
Description: Text commented upon overlined in red ; MS in good condition.
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله المتوحد بجلال ذاته وكمال صفاته المتقدس فى نعوت الجبروت عن شوائب النقص ... وبعد فان مبنى علم الشرائع والاحكام واساس قواعد عقائد الاسلام ...
Colophon: والله اعلم بالصواب واليه المرجع والمأب
Binding Note
Later type II (with flap) binding in red leather. Gold-tooled edging. Yellow paper pastedowns and flyleaves. Endbands.

Discovery Information

Subject
Nasafī, ʻUmar ibn Muḥammad 1068?-1142—ʻAqāʼid
Islam—Doctrines—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Gold tooled bindings
Headbands
Autographs
Stamps

Physical Characteristics

File Count
63

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/c81f463b-ea4c-45cd-bdea-eaba60797b08/manifest