Item Summary

A gloss on the commentary of Quṭb al-Dīn al-Rāzī al-Taḥtānī on Maṭāliʻ al-anwār fī al-manṭiq.

Descriptive Information

Title
هذا كتاب شرح مطالع.
Transliterated Title
Hādhā Kitāb Sharḥ Maṭāliʻ.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 481H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcws859s243
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1000-1735
Extent
159, (1) leaves : paper ; 186 x 132 (124 x 80) mm. bound to 186 x 136 mm.
Provenance
Signatures: Muṣṭafá Chalabī dated 1148 (fol. before title page), Abī ʻAbduh Muḥammad Asʻad ibn Sharīf ? (fol. 1a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 849.
Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), V, p. 595.
Pertsch, Die orientalischen handschriften der Herzoglichen bibliothek zu Gotha, 1184/5.
Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum orientalium (1846), 543.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
Marginal and interlinear notes and glosses. Inscriptions on follio after colophon.
Collation: Paper ; fol. i + 159 + (1) ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 19 lines per page.
Description: Text commented upon overlined in red ink ; MS in good condition but worm-eaten.
Origin: According to colophon copied in the middle of Ramaḍān by Mūsá ibn Manṣūr ibn Ṣafī (fol. 159b).
Colophon: تمت [تم] الکتاب بعون الله الملك الوهاب في اواسط رمضان کاتبه موسى بن منصور بن صفي
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم قال وحيد زمانه تغمده الله بغفرانه الحمد لله فياض ذوارف العوارف الفياض الوهاب من فاض الماء فيضا ...
Binding Note
Contemporaneous? type II (with flap) binding in red leather and paper. Flap lined with pink paper. Modern repairs to cover include attaching the flap incorrectly to the upper, rather then the lower, cover.

Physical Characteristics

File Count
332

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/8bf5b941-2b55-4fb4-bd46-a73efe612446/manifest