Item Summary

Treatise on theological and philosophical matters, written according to kalām against the philosophers' way. At the end of the copy, reading statement stating that it was read in Aleppo with Tāj al-Dīn al-Iṣfahbadī (possibly Tāj ibn Maḥmūd al-ʻAjamī al-Iṣfahīdī, ca. 729-Rabīʻ al-Awwal 807 [1328 or 9 - Sept. 1404]; see al-Ḍawʻ al-lāmiʻ, vol. 3, p. 25 and Zirikli, vol. 3, p. 87 and vol. 12, p. 194).

Descriptive Information

Title
صحائف الالهية
Transliterated Title
Ṣaḥāʼif al-ilāhīyah.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 1883Y
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/6t053j57p
Publisher
Aleppo, [before 1404?]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1300-1499
Format
Manuscript
Extent
112 leaves: paper ; 188 x 135 (130 x 80) mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Mach, R. Yahuda, 3091
Brockelmann, C. GAL, I, 468 (29/IV)
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from beginning of text (fol. 2a, l. 8).
Physical description: 18 lines per page. Written in medium small naskh in black ink with use of red. Thick dark cream paper with laid and chain lines visible. Fol. 111 and 112 are later fly-leaves with on fol. 111b, a definition of ʻilm al-maʻānī. Interlinear and marginal annotations. Seal on fol. 1b (repeated on fol. 110b). Title on the lower edge of the text block. Inscriptions in Arabic and Ottoman Turkish and ownership statements on fol. 1a: one signed al-Sayyid ʻUthmān?al-Mudarris, dated 1171 [1757] ; one signed Muḥammad al-Ḥāfiẓ al-[...?] al-qāḍī bi-Ṭarābulus al-Shām sābiqan ; one signed al-shaykh Muḥammad al-madʻuw bi-MuʼaddibʹZādah.
Origin: Copy completed by Yūsuf ibn Ibrahīm ibn Muḥammad ibn Harūn ibn Zakaryā in Aleppo in the Masjid Ḥusām al-Dīn ibn Quṭlū (or Khuṭlū, see Ibn al-Shiḥnah. al-Durr al-Muntakhab, ed. 1990, index, s.v. ; colophon, fol. 110b).
Copyist: Yūsuf ibn Ibrahīm ibn Muḥammad ibn Harūn ibn Zakaryā.
Collation: Paper, fol. 112 ; 1¹⁶ (-1, before fol. 1) 2¹⁶ 3-7¹⁴ 8⁴ 9⁴ (+1, fol. 106) + ii (fly-leaves with inscription on fol. 111b) ; catchword on the verso of each leaf ; the quires are numbered using Arabic ordinals in the form "thānī" (see fol. 16a; omits a quire between "sādis" and "sābiʻ").
Incipit: الحمد لله الذى استحق الوجود والوحدة بالذات ... اما بعد فانّ العلوم وان تنوعت اقسامها
Explicit: لا سيّما اللايح من اليقين البرهانىّ وقد اودع فى هذا الكتاب ما يعطيك هذا المقصود ويمنحك هذا المطلوب
Binding Note
Disbound. Only the leather spine is extant.

Discovery Information

Subject
Islam—Doctrines—13th century
Islamic philosophy—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton

Physical Characteristics

File Count
116

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/68bd0a37-c3fe-4836-aaa7-6732b6b1e743/manifest