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Title
كتاب سراج الظلام وبدر التمام / تأليف فخر الدين ابى بكر بن على الحدادي.
Transliterated Title
Kitāb Sirāj al-ẓalām wa-badr al-tamām / taʼlīf Fakhr al-Dīn Abī Bakr ibn ʻAlī al-Ḥaddādī.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 2547Y
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/0z709006q
Publisher
1068 [1658]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1658
Extent
299 leaves : paper ; 280 x 196 (217 x 120) mm bound to 279 x 194 mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Mach, R. Catalogue of Arabic Manuscripts (Yahuda Section), 1010.
Brockelmann, GAL, S I, 646 (Versif.-commentary).
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Ms. codex.
Commentary on the versification titled Durr al-muhtadī of al-Marghinānī's work. Incomplete at end.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
Marginal notes. Bookdealer's insert and label: "ELS No. 2547" (upper pastedown).
Collation: Paper ; fol. i + 299 ; catchwords ; foliation in ink using Hindu-Arabic numerals ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 31 lines per page.
Description: Text in red, commentary in black ; watermarks (three crescents, other unidentified) ; MS in good condition, worm-eaten.
Origin: According to the colophon of the first part copied Wednesday 3 Ramaḍān 1068 (fol. 139b)
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم رب يسر واعن يا كريم الحمد لله فاطر السموات وباسط الارض ومقدر الاقوات ... هذا كتاب الفته شرحا المنظومة الفقيه الاجل لامام الاوحد سراج الدين ابى بكر بن علي بن موسى الهاملي موضحا لمشكلاتها ...
Ending: اي بحوزان يشتري بمثل القيمة وزيادة متغاين فيها ولا يحوز ...
Binding Note
Later full-bound type III (without flap) binding in red leather. Blind-stamped mandorla on upper cover; blind-stamped mandorla with pendants on lower cover. Spine repaired. Appears to be re-used covers.

Physical Characteristics

File Count
307

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/68b11762-9e9a-490b-97d4-4443f50f668e/manifest