Item Summary

Collection of texts on a variety of topics.

Descriptive Information

Title
كتاب بلد الامين ... [الخ.]
Transliterated Title
Kitāb Balad al-amīn ... [etc.].
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, New Series no. 621
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/qv33s027f
Publisher
Iṣfahān, [1827-1828]
اصفهان، [1827-1828]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1827-1828
Extent
172 leaves : paper ; 207 x 150 (150-185 x 83-132) mm. bound to 209 x 156 mm.
References
Mach, R. & Ormsby, E.L. Handlist of Arabic manuscripts (New Series), no. 116, 348, 1270, 973, 987, 1205, 1409.
Brockelmann, C. GAL, II, 19 (no. 13); II, 144 (no. 494); II, 199 (no. 252); II, 268 (III); SI, 596 (8c); SII, 9; SII, 194; SII, 288; SII, 575 (no. 13?)
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Contents
1. leaves 1b-17a: Kitāb Balad al-amīn / Jaʻfar ibn Abī Isḥāq al-Kashfī. Urjūzah on Shiʻite doctrine.
2. leaves 19b-111b: Kitāb al-Iqtirāḥ fī ʻilm uṣūl al-naḥw / al-Suyūṭī. Treatise on the principles of Arabic grammar.
3. leaves 111b-113b: Risālah al-ʻAḍudīyah / ʻAḍud al-Dīn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Aḥmad al-Ījī. Treatise on signification.
4. leaves 113b-121a: Risālah al-qawsīyah / Ismāʻīl ibn ʻAbbād ibn Wazīrān al-Iṣfahānī.
5. leaves 121a-123a: Risālat al-sikkīn / Taqī al-Dīn Abū Bakr ibn ʻAlī ibn Ḥijjah al-Ḥamawī.
6. leaves 123a-126b: Risālah fī fāʼ al-faṣīḥah.
7. leaves 126b-143b: Risālah fī madḥ al-Sulṭān. Short treatise in praise of the Ottoman Sultan Süleyman I.
8. leaves 147b-160b: [Risālah fī bayān ṣiyagh al-ʻuqūd wa-al-īqāʻāt]. Treatise on contracts.
9. leaves 160b-162a: [Risālah fī al-jadhr al-aṣamm]. Short treatise on irrational roots.
10. leaves 163a-170b: [Tafsīr Sūrat al-Sajdah]. Commentary on Sūrat al-Sajdah; incomplete at end.
11. leaf 171a: [Exchange between the Caliph al-Maʼmūn and Imam al-Riḍā concerning ʻAlī].
Notes
Ms. composite codex.
Title from text 1.
Marginal notes.
Collation: Paper ; fol. 171 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 15-22 lines per page in one or two columns.
Description: Written in shikastah and other scripts ; outer edge moldered.
Origin: [Kitāb Balad al-amīn] Copied 21 Ṣafar 1244 in Iṣfahān (leaf 17a) -- [Risālah al-qawsīyah] Copied 24 Rabīʻ I 1244 (leaf 113b) -- [Risālah fī madḥ al-Sulṭān] Copied 3 Rabīʻ II 1244 (leaf 143b). Texts 1-7 copied by the same scribe. [Risālah fī bayān ṣiyagh] Copied 1243 (leaf 160b).
Incipit: [كتاب بلد الامين] باسم القديم الملك العلام * انا فتحنا عقدة الکلام -- [كتاب الاقتراح] يقول ... الحمد لله الذي ارشد لابتكار هذا النمط -- [رسالة العضدية] هذه رسالة افادها المولى ... اللفظ قد يوضع لشخص بعينه وقد يوضع له باعتبار امر عام -- [رسالة القوسية] ويسئلونك عن ذي القرنين -- [رسالة السكين] قال ... بن حجة الحموي ... تفنن الاصفهاني في رسالة القوس -- [رسالة في فاء الفصيحة] أما الفاء الفصحية فهي فاء التعقيب -- [رسالة في مدح السلطان] الحمد لله الذي اعزّ الاسلام و المسلمين بمحمد -- [رسالة في بيان] الحمد لله حمدا کثيرا ... بعد فهذه جملة کافية ببيان صيغ العقود والايقاعات -- [رسالة في الجذر الاصم] لما کان المحقق فى الجديدة اورد ما اورده السيد من نقل شبهة المشهورة بالجذر الاصم و ما قيل في دفعها و تکلم عليه فلا بأس ان نورده -- [تفسير سورة السجدة] الحمد لله الذي انزل من سماء علمه وقدرته کتابا
Binding Note
Full black leather with blind-stamped central mandorla, pendants, and fillets; salmon paper doublures.

Discovery Information

Subject
Arabic language—Rhetoric—Early works to 1800
Arabic language—Semantics—Early works to 1800
Arithmetic
Contracts (Islamic law)—Early works to 1800
Mathematics, Arab
Shīʻah—Early works to 1800
Shīʻah—Doctrines—Early works to 1800
Süleyman I Sultan of the Turks 1494 or 1495-1566
Qurʼan Sūrat al-Sajdah—Commentaries—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Poetry
Blind tooled bindings

Physical Characteristics

File Count
179

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/50a66f5f-ef84-4d1f-9bd7-2eba89999b24/manifest