Item Summary

Careful copy of a commentary on al-Yāqūt by Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm ibn Nawbakht, on Shīʻī kalām.

Descriptive Information

Title
كتاب انوار الملكوت في شرح الياقوت / تصنيف المولى الشيخ الامام العالم العلامة القدوة المحقق المدقق افضل المتاخرين من مرجع الحكماء والمتكلمين جمال الملة والحق والدين ابي منصور الحسن بن المطهر الحلي ادام الله فضله
Transliterated Title
Kitāb Anwār al-malakūt fī sharḥ al-Yāqūt / taṣnīf al-Mawlá al-shaykh al-imām al-ʻālim al-ʻallāmah al-qudwah al-muḥaqqiq al-mudaqqiq afḍal al-mutaʼakhkharīn min marjaʻ al-ḥukamāʼ wa-al-mutakallimīn Jamāl al-millah wa-al-ḥaqq wa-al-dīn Abī Manṣūr al-Ḥasan ibn al-Muṭahhar al-Ḥillī adāma Allāh faḍlahu.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, New Series no. 1128
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/3197xm11b
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1323
Extent
95 leaves : paper ; 245 x 130 (180 x 80) mm. bound to 245 x 135 mm.
Provenance
Several ownership statements on fol. 1a.
References
Mach, R. and E. Ormsby. Handlist (New Series), 35
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
25 lines per page. Written in medium small naskh with elements of taʻlīq, in black ink with use of red for headings and re-inking. Beige paper with irregular laid lines visible. A few marginal annotations by another hand. Several inscriptions on the pastedown of the upper cover.
According to the colophon, copied from the author's autograph in Mashhad al-Sharīf al-Kāẓimī al-Jawādī, on ...? Dhū al-Qaʻdah 723 [Nov. 1323] by Aḥmad ibn [... (Mach-Ormsby read "Zayn al-Dīn")] ibn al-Ḥaddād (colophon, fol. 95b).
Collation: Paper, fol. 95 ; 1¹⁰ (-1, before fol. 1) 2-8¹⁰ 9⁸ 10¹⁰(-2, after fol. 95) ; catchword on the verso of each leaf ; the quires are numbered using Arabic ordinals in the form "al-Thālithah" (see fol. 20a).
Incipit: الحمد لله ذي القدرة القاهرة والعزّة الباهرة ... امّا بعد فانّ الله تعالى كمّل الانسان بقدر ... وخصّه بالعقل والنطق باللسان
Explicit: واما المخالفون فى الفروع كالمسايل الشرعيّة فهم خاطيون غير فسقى بالاجماع فهذا آخر ما كتبناه والحمد لله رب العالمين وصلّى الله على سيدالمرسلين محمد النبى وآله الطاهرين الاخيار
Binding Note
Brown leather over paper pasteboards for upper and lower covers. Paper pastedowns.

Physical Characteristics

File Count
196

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/7ae1675c-e1ee-44f0-b0ae-c81f940b9959/manifest