Item Summary

A commentary on ʻUmdat al-bayān fī maʻrifat farāʼiḍ al-aʻyān, and two commentaries on al-Sullam al-murawnaq fī al-manṭiq.

Descriptive Information

Title
هذا كتاب على الوغليسيه ... [الخ.]
Transliterated Title
Hādhā Kitāb ʻalá al-Waghlīsīyah ... [etc.]
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 925H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dc9p290p133
Publisher
1148-1184 [1735-1770]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1735-1770
Format
Manuscript
Extent
253 leaves : paper ; 215-220 x 152 (155-175 x 84-110) mm bound to 221 x 165 mm.
Provenance
Ownership signatures: Ṣāliḥ ibn Muḥammad al-Fulānī, obscured seal impression (fol. 1a); seal impression (fol. 166a); Muḥammad al-Zundūnī? al-Manṣūrī al-Shāfiʻī dated 1148 (fol. 167a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 924, 823, 822.
Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), IV, p. 257.
Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, VI, p. 50; VI, p. 63.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Contents
1. fol. 1a-166a: Hādhā Kitāb ʻalá al-Waghlīsīyah / Ibn al-Sabbāgh. A commentary on al-Waghlīsīyah, a compendium of religion and morals. This work is known as ʻUmdat al-bayān fī maʻrifat farāʼiḍ al-aʻyān, and its authorship is attributed either to al-Waghlīsī himself (al-Bajāʼī), or to al-Ṣabbagh (possibly an alternate name for al-Waghlīsī?).
2. fol. 167a-187b: Kitāb Sharḥ al-mubham min maʻānī al-sullam / lil-ʻālam Aḥmad al-Damanhūrī. A commentary on al-Sullam al-murawnaq fī al-manṭiq.
3. fol. 188a-188b: [Fawāʼid] Includes notes on the founders of the four schools of Islamic law, al-Nawawī, and ʻAbd al-Ḥayy al-Ḥanafī.
4. fol. 189a-253a: Hādhā Kitāb Sharḥ ʻalá al-Sullam fī ʻilm al-manṭiq / al-Shaykh al-Mullawī al-Ṣaghīr. A commentary on al-Sullam al-murawnaq fī al-manṭiq.
Notes
Ms. composite codex.
Title from title page of first work (fol. 1a).
A few marginal notes. A few fawāʼid between texts and on title page of second text.
Collation: Paper ; fol. 253 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 17-25 lines per page ; a few folios frame-ruled in red (fol. 1, 3, 16 and 18).
Description: Written in Maghribī and general scripts ; rubricated ; text in red and commentary in black ; watermarks (fol. 1-166: three crescents; fol. 167-188: three crescents, crown-star-crescents, other unidentified; fol. 189-253: three crescents?, roman-alphabet letters "FA" with fleur-de-lis?) ; MS in good condition.
Origin: [Hādhā Kitāb ʻalá al-Waghlīsīyah] Copy completed Saturday 6 Muḥarram 1183 (fol. 165b) -- [Kitāb Sharḥ al-mubham] Copied 1148 (fol. 187b) -- [Sharḥ ʻalá al-Sullam] Copied Tuesday 23 Rabīʻ al-Awwal 1184 by Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad Yaʻqūb al-Jiddī al-Ḥanafī (fol. 253a)
Incipit: [كتاب على الوغليسيه] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم ... الحمد لله الذي اعلا معالم الاسلام ... اما بعد فانه لما [؟] الكتاب المسمى بالمغليسية الذي وضعه العلامة العلم ... -- [كتاب شرح المبهم] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله اللهم للصواب ... وبعد فيقول احمد الدمنهوري بلغه الله الامال ... قد سألني بعض الطلبة المبتدئين ان اشرح سلم المنطق ... -- [شرح على السلم] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه ثقتي الحمد لله العالم بالکليات والجزئيات الهادي العقول الي حل صعاب ... اما بعد فاني قد كنت شرحت فيما مضي كتاب السلم شرحا بديع ...
Colophon: [كتاب على الوغليسيه] وهذا ما وجدنا في هذا التأليف المبارك والحمد لله رب العالمين وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد وعلى آله عدد ما ذکره الذاکرون وغفل عن ذکره الغافلون وسلم على المرسلين والحمد لله رب العالمين. وکان الفراغ من کتابته يوم السبت عند الظهر من شهر الله المحرم سادس يوم منه سنة 1183 -- [كتاب شرح المبهم] وهذا آخر ما اوردنا کتابته نسأل من وفقنا له ان ينفع به انه على ذلك قدير وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد وعلى آله وصحبه وسلم. تم. کتبه سنة 1148 -- [شرح على السلم] وقع الفراغ من کتابة هذه النسخة صبح يوم الثلاثاء الثالث والعشرين من ربيع الاول من شهور عام اربعة وثمانين ومائة والف على يد کثير الذنوب محمد بن احمد يعقوب الجدّي بلدًا الحنفي مذهبا غفر الله له ولوالديه ولمشايخه والمسلمين آمين آمين آمين
Binding Note
Later type II (with flap) binding in red leather. Blind-stamped mandorla with pendants and blind-tooled decorative edging on covers. Similar decoration on flap. Red paper pastedowns with white stamped designs. Multi-colored endbands.

Discovery Information

Subject
Islam—Customs and practices—Early works to 1800
Logic—Early works to 1800
Religious life—Islam—Early works to 1800
Bajāʼī, ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Aḥmad -1384 or 1385—Muqaddimah
Akhḍarī, ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Muḥammad 1512 or 1513-1575 or 1576—Sullam
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Blind tooled bindings
Headbands
Autographs
Watermarks

Physical Characteristics

File Count
518

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/b9eb4cb9-f775-4c5b-9981-abe5fe4e99d6/manifest