Item Summary

A commentary on the dogmatical treatise in verse, entitled Badʼ al-amālī by Abū al-ḥasan Sirāj al-Dīn ʻAlī ibn ʻUthmān al-Ūshī,

Descriptive Information

Title
ضوء المعالي لبدء الامالي.
Transliterated Title
Ḍawʼ al-maʻālī li-Badʼ al-amālī.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 985H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcrb68xq39t
Publisher
Ramaḍān 1173 [May 1760]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1760
Extent
65 leaves : paper ; 153 x 104 (95 x 60) mm bound to 152 x 106 mm.
Provenance
Ownership signature of Sulaymān ibn Ḥasan, Imām and Khaṭīb of Jāmiʻ Qāsim Pāshā dated 1173 with his seal impression (fol. 64b). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1556.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from preface (fol. 2a).
A few marginal notes
Collation: Paper ; fol. ii + 65 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 13 lines per page ; frame-ruled in red.
Description: Text in red and commentary in black ; original text vocalized ; overlining and other use of red ; watermarks (crown?, other unidentified) ; MS in good condition.
Decoration: Simple illuminated headpiece in red.
Origin: Copy completed end of Ramaḍān 1173 (fol. 64a).
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله الذى وجب وجود ذاته ... وبعد فيقول الملتجى الى حرم ربه البارى على بن السلطان محمد القارى لمل شرعت في شرح الفقه الاكبر ...
Colophon: تمت في اواخر شهر رمضان لسنة ثلث وسبعين ومأية والف
Binding Note
Later type II (with flap) binding in brown leather. Gold-stamped central and corner floral motifs and gold-stamped decorative edging on covers. Gold-stamped design around edges of flap. Violet paper pastedowns.

Discovery Information

Subject
Ūshī, ʻAlī ibn ʻUthmān active 12th century—Badʼ al-amālī
Islam—Doctrines—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
illuminated manuscripts
headpieces (layout features)
Autographs
Stamps
Gold tooled bindings
Watermarks

Physical Characteristics

File Count
152

Institutional Information

Collection
Princeton’s Holdings of the al-Madani Library
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/43d6dc49-c9e2-4baa-99b7-1ca4406d43b3/manifest