Item Summary

Commentary on al-Nasafīʼs creed.

Descriptive Information

Title
شرح عمدة في الكلام.
Transliterated Title
Sharḥ ʻUmdah fī al-kalām.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 881Y
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/pz50gz69j
Publisher
[15th century?]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1400-1499
Format
Manuscript
Extent
111 leaves : paper ; 184 x 137 (145 x 100) mm bound to 184 x 141 mm.
Provenance
Ownership signatures: Ḥasan al-Zuhdī al-Qādirī, najl Khalīl Pāshā dated 12[6?]7 with his seal impression; Aḥmad dated 1285; Muḥammad Asʻad ibn Hallājʹzādah[?] dated 1216 (fol. 1a). Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Mach, R. Catalogue of Arabic Manuscripts (Yahuda Section), 2288.
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
Marginal annotations. Quote from Kashf al-ẓunūn (fol. 1a). Bookdealer's labels and inserts on pastedowns including label: "ELS No. 881". Title on lower edge of text block lists second title now missing.
Collation: Paper ; fol. i (later paper) + 111 ; foliation in ink using Hindu-Arabic numerals as fol. 42-109 ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 23 lines per page.
Description: Overlining and other use of red ; MS in good condition.
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم رب تمم بالخير الحمد لمن نطق بوجوب وجوده ... وبعد فان ارباب العقل قد توافقوا على ان ارفع المطالب رتبة ...
Colophon: رضى الله تعالى عنهم وعمن تابعهم اجمعين تم
Binding Note
Later type III (without flap) binding in dark brown leather. Blind-tooled central design and decorative edging. Pink paper pastedown. Lower endband. Covers evidently re-used as the patterns do not match. Evidence that lower cover used to have a flap.

Discovery Information

Subject
Nasafī, ʻAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad -1310—ʻUmdah fī uṣūl al-dīn
Islam—Doctrines—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Blind tooled bindings
Headbands
Autographs
Stamps

Physical Characteristics

File Count
75

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/053dedff-9b38-4d46-8543-91c062d91b0a/manifest