Item Summary

Commentary on al-Bayḍawī's treatise on Kalām, followed by the commented text written by the same hand.

Descriptive Information

Title
مطالع الانظار في شرح طوالع الانوار. طوالع الانوار من مطالع الانظار.
Transliterated Title
Maṭāliʻ al-anẓār fī sharḥ Ṭawāliʻ al-anwār. Ṭawāliʻ al-anwār min maṭāliʻ al-anẓār.
Call Number
Islamic manuscripts, Garrett no. 989H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcd504rx87n
Publisher
[Istanbul?, 1470]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1470
Format
Manuscript
Extent
250 leaves: paper ; 184 x 134 (113 x 75 and 130 x 80) mm. bound to 184 x 135 mm.
Provenance
Acquired by Robert Garrett from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett coll., 1487, 1489
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Contents
1. fol. 2b-211a : Maṭāliʻ al-anẓār fī sharḥ Ṭawāliʻ al-anwār / [Maḥmūd ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān al-Iṣfahānī].
2. fol. 212a-249a: Ṭawāliʻ al-anwār min maṭāliʻ al-anẓār / [ʻAbd Allāh ibn ʻUmar al-Bayḍāwī].
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger, from preamble of first text (fol. 3a, l. 17-18) and of second text (fol. 214a, l. 5-6).
Ḥāshiyah on the margins. Title on tail of text block: "Iṣfahānī". Inscription in black ink in Western numerals on fol. 1a: "511" (corresponds to Brill's list. See Houtsma, M. Th. Catalogue d'une collection de manuscrits arabes et turcs (188-), no. 989).
Layout: 19 and 21 lines per page ; frame-ruled in blue.
Description: Written in small nastaʻlīq in black ink with use of red. Light cream paper with laid and chain lines visible. Some paper dyed yellow. Foliation in black ink using Arabic numerals on the first text (starts with "1" on third fol.).
Origin: Copy of Text 1 completed in Ṣafar 875 [1470] by Muḥammad ibn ʻĪsá ibn ʻAlī in Madrasat Zayrak [Zeyrek madrasa, Istanbul?](colophon, fol. 212a). Copy of Text 2 completed on a Monday at the beginning of Dhū al-Ḥijjah 874 [June 1470] by the same scribe, whose name appears here as Muḥammad ibn ʻĪsá Ḥājjī ibn ʻAlá al-Dīn al-Aqyāzatī(?) (colophon, fol. 250a).
Binding Note
Later type II (with flap) binding in dark-brown leather over paper pasteboards. Blind-tooled and gold-painted with a large central lobed mandorla with two pendants on the vertical axis and an outer frame consisting of fillets and a guilloche, with knot-work in the inner corners. Red-brown leather doublure with at its centre a filigree lobed mandorla with arabesque and floral work on a gilded ground, outlined in gold. Gilt fillets outer frame.Traces of a now wanting flap.

Discovery Information

Subject
Islam—Doctrines—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Blind tooled bindings
Gold tooled bindings
Colored papers

Physical Characteristics

File Count
506

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/4f5cf14a-0786-4998-9d22-a71ec684ac90/manifest