Item Summary

A collection of texts on logic and religious topics.

Descriptive Information

Title
كتاب شرح السلم المرونق في علم المنطق ... [الخ.]
Transliterated Title
Kitāb Sharḥ al-Sullam al-murawnaq fī ʻilm al-manṭiq ... [etc.]
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 127L
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dc41687w54z
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1600-1850
Format
Manuscript
Extent
62 leaves : paper ; 216 x 167 (140-170 x 95-120) mm bound to 192 x 140 mm.
Provenance
Ownership signature: Muḥammad Muḥammad Abī al-Saʻūd ... al-Mālikī (fol. 1a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, A.D. 1904.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 2059.
Die arabischen, persischen und türkischen handschriften der Kaiserlich-königlichen hofbibliothik zu Wien, 1536.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Contents
1. fol. 1a-33b: Kitāb Sharḥ al-Sullam al-murawnaq fī ʻilm al-manṭiq / taʼlīf ʻAbd al-Raḥmān al-shahīr bi-al-Akhḍarī. A commentary on the author's versification of the famous work on logic, Īsāghūjī.
2. fol. 33b-37b: al-Sullam al-murawnaq / ʻAbd al-Raḥmān al-Akhḍarī. A versification of the famous work on logic, Īsāghūjī.
3. fol. 37b-41a: [Fawāʼid]
4. fol. 41a-43a: al-Muqaddimāt / Muḥammad al-Sanūsī. A treatise on the fundamental principles of philosophy.
5. fol. 43a-49b: ʻAqīdat al-Imām al-ʻAllāmah Abū Ḥāmid al-Ghazzālī. A short confession of faith.
6. fol. 49b-62b: al-Fuṣūl / lil-Shaykh al-Mahdī. A treatise on the principles of Muslim dogma. Work is incomplete at end.
Notes
Ms. composite codex.
Title from title page of first work (fol. 1a).
Marginal notes and commentary. First 30 folios heavily annotated.
Collation: Paper ; fol. 62 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 18-22 lines per page in one or two columns.
Description: Rubricated ; some vowel signs ; watermarks (hills?; three crescents) ; MS in fair condition.
Incipit: [كتاب شرح السلم] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله الذي جعل قلوب العلماء سموات ... اما بعد فلما وضعت الارجوزة المسماة بالسلم المنورق في علم المنطق ... -- [سلم المنورق] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وصلى الله ... الحمد لله الذي قد اخرجا نتايج الفكر لارباب الحجا -- [المقدمات] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وصلي سيدنا محمد ... الحكم اثبات امر او نفيه ... -- [عقهدة] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم رب يسير بالكريم الحمد لله شارح الصدور بنور المعرفة والايمان ... اما بعد فهذا شرح للعقيدة ... -- [الفصول] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله الذي ينبغي الحمد الا له ... وبعد فهذه فصول مهمة فريبة الماخذ فيما يحبب علي المكلف اعتقاده ...
Colophon: [كتاب شرح السلم] والحمد لله وحده والصلاة والسلام علي من لابني بعده وعلى اله وصحته اجمعين وسلام علي المرسلين والحمد ... العالمين امين -- [سلم المنورق] تم المتن بحمد لله وعونه وحسن توفيقه -- [المقدمات] تمت المقدمات بحمد الله وعونه -- [عقهدة] ... هو مقرر عند علماء السنة رضي الله عنهم -- [الفصول] ... وبرهانه وضده فتصير الجلمة ...
Binding Note
Later type II (with flap) binding in light brown leather. Blind-stamped mandorla with pendants and blind-tooled decorative edging. Cover evidently re-used as it does not fit current contents. Spine and edges repaired with red leather. Accessioned and imaged with cover upside-down.

Discovery Information

Subject
Akhḍarī, ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Muḥammad 1512 or 1513-1575 or 1576—Sullam
Islam—Doctrines—Early works to 1800
Logic—Early works to 1800
Islamic philosophy—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Watermarks
Autographs
Blind tooled bindings

Physical Characteristics

File Count
132

Institutional Information

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

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/d72e37c1-203c-4d0a-83ea-9899cb67c1db/manifest