Item Summary

Elegant copy of a commentary on Iẓhār al-asrār

Descriptive Information

Title
نتائج الافکار في شرح اظهار الاسرار.
Transliterated Title
[Natāʼij al-afkār fī sharḥ Iẓhār al-asrār]
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 387H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dc47429m55v
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1801
Extent
243 leaves : paper ; 175 x 120 (125 x 60) bound to 173 x 117 mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 469.
Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, IV, p. 117, VII, p. 264.
Rieu, Supplement of the catalogue of the Arabic Mss, 979.
Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 6784.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Marginal notes and glosses.
Collation: Paper ; fol. 243 + ii ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 15 lines per page ; frame-ruled in gold and black throughout ; ruled for marginal notes on a slant.
Description: Rubricated ; some vowel signs ; watermarks (crown; bird with outstretched wings and a crown; roman-alphabet letter "A") ; MS in good condition but several folios are foxed and several are partly smeared with ink.
Decoration: Elaborate illuminated headpiece with red, blue, yellow, gold, orange and white. Folios 1b and 2a have gold filling surrounding the lines of text, and a gold floral design in the margins.
Origin: According to colophon copied Thursday 1 Shawwāl 1215 in Kūtāhyawī by Muḥammad Shākir ibn Kāmilī Ismāʻīl Afandī (fol. 243a).
Incipit: بسم الله ... الحمد لله الذي جعل الالفاظ قوالب المعاني
Colophon: نمقه العبد المذنب الضعيف المحتاج الى رحمة ربه الغفور اللطيف السيد محمد شاکر ابن کاملي اسمعيل افندي من تلاميذ محمود الراجي بکوتاهيوي [کوتاهيه] عن مدرس کرام جراغ اندرون همايون کيلار خاصة سنة 1215 يوم پنجشنبه ش في 1 غرة
Binding Note
Contemporaneous? type III (without flap) binding in in red leather. Foil-stamped mandorla and gold-tooled decorative edging. Yellow paper pastedowns with gold flecks. Multi-colored endbands.

Physical Characteristics

File Count
498

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/969ce2eb-2def-4305-988f-76223110c25f/manifest