Item Summary

Miscellany of short Arabic texts and extracts.

Descriptive Information

Title
مفتاح باب الموجهات ... [الخ.]
Transliterated Title
Miftāḥ bāb al-muwajjahāt ... [etc.].
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 5511Y
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dc4m90f915r
Publisher
[1800-1899]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1800-1899
Format
Manuscript
Extent
118 leaves : paper ; 224 x 160 (156-168 x 78-90) mm bound to 225 x 170 mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Mach, R. Yahuda, 465, 3306, 3309, 3979, 476, 477, 3307, 34, 3283, 2424, 3146, 3147, 440, 3118, 2370, 3712.
Brockelmann, GAL, II, 267 (no. 9); II, 281 (no. 14); S II, 1015 (18a); S II, 939 (95).
Tahir, Osmanlı müʻellifleri (1914-24), I, 378.
Topkapı Sarayı Müzesi Kütüphanesi Arapc̦a yazmalar kataloğu, 8823/20 (Risālah fī bayān al-gharaḍ)
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Contents
1. fol. 3a-4a: Abḥāth mutʻalliqah bi-"innā anzalnāhu".
2. fol. 5a: [Risālah fī ajzāʼ al-qaḍīyah]. Anonymous gloss on Qarahʹtabahʹlī's Sharḥ Risālat al-istiʻārah.
3. fol. 5b-32b: Miftāḥ bāb al-muwajjahāt. On modality.
4. fol. 33a-34b: Mā ḥaṣala min al-suʼāl wa-al-jawāb fī imtiḥān al-Aqkirmānī.
5. fol. 35a-41a: [Risālah sharīfah fī ʻilm al-maʻānī wa-al-kalām]. On rhetoric and language.
6. fol. 41a-42b: [Taʻlīqah fī maʻná wa-kalām] / ʻAbd Allāh al-Hamishnī?
7. fol. 43b-50a: [Ḥāshiyah ʻalá sharḥ Qarahʹtabahʹlī].
8. fol. 52a: [Risālah fī maʻná al-tawḥīd]
9. fol. 53a-56b: [Risālah fī ʻilm maʻānī wa-bayān] / al-Kalanbawī.
10. fol. 57a-60a: [Risālat al-imtiḥān] / Amīn Afandī.
11. fol. 60a-60b: al-Kalimāt al-maqbūlah.
12. fol. 60b-61b: al-Risālah al-imtiḥānīyah.
13. fol. 61b-62b: [Risālat al-imtiḥān]
14. fol. 63a-66b: [Risālah fī tafsīr "law kāna fīhimā ālihah..."] / Musliḥ al-Dīn al-Lārī.
15. fol. 66b-67a: [Risālah fī tafsīr "law kāna fīhimā ālihah..."] / Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd Allāh al-Khādimī.
16. fol. 67a-69b: Ḥāshiyah ʻalá Tafsīr al-Qāḍī [al-Bayḍāwī]
17. fol. 69a-70a: Risālah fī taḥqīq maʻná al-taqsīm wa-al-maqsim / lil-Qāḍī al-Kalanbawī.
18. fol. 70a-71a: [Extract from Muṭawwal by al-Taftazānī].
19. fol. 71b: Risālah fī bayān muqaddimat al-shurūʻ fī al-ʻilm.
20. fol. 72a: Muftīʹzādah ʻalá al-Taṣdīqāt. Gloss on Quṭb al-Dīn al-Rāzī's commentary on Najm al-Dīn al-Kātibī's treatise on logic entitled al-Shamsīyah, and to al-Sayyid al-Sharīf al-Jurjānī's supercommentary.
21. fol. 73a-75a: [Risālah fī al-kullīyah wa-al-juzʼīyah].
22. fol. 75a-80a: [Risālah fī ʻilm Allāh bi-al-maʻdūmāt] / Ismāʻīl al-Kalanbawī.
23. fol. 80b-81a: [Risālah fī māhīyat al-mumtaniʻ bi-al-dhāt] / al-Kalanbawī.
24. fol. 81a-82a: [Risālah fī nafs al-amr] / al-Kalanbawī
25. fol. 83a-84a: al-Risālah al-imtiḥānīyah / al-Kalanbawī.
26. fol. 84b-89a: Risālat al-faṣl wa-al-waṣl / Ismāʻīl al-Kalanbawī.
27. fol. 93b-95a: [Risālah al-imtiḥānīyah]
28. fol. 96b-99a: Risālah fī iʻrāb "wa-ʻamilū al-ṣāliḥāt" / Kātibʹzādah ʻAbd Allāh Afandī al-Thīrawī.
29. fol. 101b: [Risālah fī al-gharaḍ wa-al-ghāyah] / lil-Sayyid al-Sharīf. On the causa finalis.
30. fol. 103a-104b: Fawāʼid al-ʻajībah. Contains short treatises by Muftīzādah Darandī with commentaries on logic, grammar, etc.
31. fol. 105a-106b: [Miscellany] / Muḥammad al-Dārandī.
32. fol. 107a-108b?: al-Baḥth fī al-tafriqah bayna madhāhib al-mutaʼakhirrīn wa-al-qudamāʼ fī al-qaḍīyah wa-al-taṣdīq / [al-Dārandī]
33. fol. 108b-112a: [Risālah fī bayān taḥqīq al-maḥṣūrāt]. On quantified propositions.
34. fol. 115a: al-Risālah fī ḥaqq al-tawḥīd / Jalāl al-Dīn al-Dawwānī.
35. fol. 115b-116b: Risālah fī ḥaqq kalimat al-tawḥīd / ʻAbd al-Raḥmān al-Jāmī.
36. fol. 117a-118b: [Asʼilah murattabah] / Muḥammad Munīb Afandī. Grammatical questions.
Notes
Ms. composite codex.
Title from introduction of third work (fol. 5b).
Marginal notes. Inserts. Partial list of contents (fol. 1a). Extracts from Siyālkūtī, ʻAlī ibn Mālik, Muftīʹzādah, Muḥammad Dārandawī, Islāmbūlī, Kalanbawī, and Dawwānī, ʻAbd al-Wahhāb al-Amidī al-Jarmukī and others (fol. 43a, 50a-51b, 72b, 82b, 89b-93a, 95a-96a, 99a-101a, 112a-115a).
Collation: Paper ; fol. i + 118 + i ; catchwords ; partial foliation in ink using Hindu-Arabic numerals ; folation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 21-27 lines per page.
Description: Some overlining in red ; some paper tinted tan or yellow ; watermarks (roman-alphabet initials "AG" and "GFA"; shield with a lion; eagle; crown; three hats; other unidentified marks) ; MS in good condition.
Origin: [Miftāḥ bāb al-muwajjahāt] Copied 1253 (fol. 32b). Copied by Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Ūdimishī? (fol. [i]a).
Incipit (continued): [رسالة في الكلية] يا من احاط علمه بالکليات -- [رسالة في علم الله] نحمدك يا من احاط بکل شىء علما -- [رسالة في ماهية] قالوا لا ماهية للممتنع بالذات -- [رسالة في نفس] اعلم ان المتکلمين انکروا الوجود الذهنى -- [رسالة في اعراب] قال ... هذه رسالة فى اعراب قوله -- [رسالة في الغرض] اعلم انه اذا ترتب على فعل أثر -- [رسالة في كلمة] اعلم ان لا اله الا الله کلمة التوحيد اجماعا -- [اسئلة] السؤال الول يسئل عن الطالب هذا القول
Incipit: [ابحاث] قال ... هذه ابحاث متعلقة -- [مفتاح] نحمدک يا من وجب لذاته وجوده -- [رسالة في اجزاء] اعلم ان اجزاء القضية عند القدماء ثلثة -- [حاشية على شرح] اما بعد فقد کنت شرحت رسالة الاستعارة ... قوله الحمد لمن افرد الحقايق اى ميز ماهية ... -- [رسالة في تفسير 1] بسم الله ... اعلم ان نحاة ذکروا ان کلمة لو -- [رسالة في تفسير 2] الحمد لله ... فيه برهان قطعى بوحدانيته -- [رسالة في تحقيق] قال بعضهم ان المراد من القسم کل فرد -- [رسالة في بيان] الحمد لله ... ان بعض من استفاد منا
Binding Note
Later type II (with flap) binding in red leather and orange marbled paper. Violet paper pastedowns. Orange gold-speckled paper flyleaves. Endbands.

Discovery Information

Subject
Arabic language—Rhetoric
Arabic language—Grammar
Classification of sciences
God (Islam)
Islam—Doctrines—Early works to 1800
Islamic philosophy—Early works to 1800
Logic—Early works to 1800
Qurʼan Sūrat Yūsuf 2—Commentaries
Qurʼan Sūrat al-Anbiyāʼ 22—Commentaries—Early works to 1800
Qurʼan Sūrat al-Baqarah 25—Commentaries
Qarahʹtabahʹlī, Ḥusayn ibn Muṣṭafá -1777 or 1778—Sharḥ Risālat al-istiʻārah
Anṭākī, Maḥmūd ibn ʻAbd Allāh -1747 or 1748—Risālat al-istiʻārah
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton

Physical Characteristics

File Count
254

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Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
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https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/2dd93d11-3f10-46b0-9ebf-28c952a6169e/manifest