Item Summary

A commentary on the dogmatical treatise in verse entitled Badʼ al-amālī by Abū al-Ḥasan Sirāj al-Dīn ʻAlī ibn ʻUthmān al-Ūshī.

Descriptive Information

Title
هذا ضوء المعالى شرح بدء الامالى / للعلامة علي القاري.
Transliterated Title
Hādhā Ḍawʼ al-maʻālī sharḥ Badʼ al-amālī / lil-ʻallāmah ʻAlī al-Qārī.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 984H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dc4t64h071n
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1712
Extent
45 leaves : paper ; 198 x 142 (146 x 77) mm bound to 198 x 150 mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1555.
Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), IV, pp. 122/3, 560.
Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 2415-8.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
A few marginal notes and glosses. It is stated in the original colophon that the work was composed in Makkah 1010 [1602]. Biographical notes on folio 1a.
Collation: Paper ; fol. 45 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 19 lines per page ; frame-ruled in red.
Description: Rubricated ; MS in good condition, some staining and repairs.
Origin: According to colophon copy completed Thursday 8 Shawwāl 1124 by Muḥammad Maḥmūd (fol. 45a).
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله الذي وجب وجود ذاته ... وبعد فيقول الملتجى الى حرمربه الباري على بن سلطان محمد القارى ... فسنح ببالي وخيالي ان اضع شرحاً
Colophon: وفرغ من تعليقه الفقير الى الله تعالى محمد محمود في يوم الخميس الثامن من شوال سنة اربعة وعشرين ومائة والف. م
Binding Note
Later type II (with flap) binding in light brown leather and orange paper with black and white pattern.

Physical Characteristics

File Count
101

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/5ce93da9-6e55-46ab-9779-857e4c998d61/manifest