كتاب شرح المواقف

Kitāb Sharḥ al-Mawāqif.

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Format
Manuscript, Book
Language
Arabic
Published/​Created
[Istanbul, 1613]
Description
i, 462, ii leaves: paper ; 245 x 133 (176 x 84) mm. bound to 245 x 145 mm.

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    Summary note
    Commentary on Kitāb al-Mawāqif by ʻAḍud al-Dīn al-Ījī (d. 756/1355). The commentary was completed in Shawwāl 807 in Samarqand (see colophon, fol. 462b).
    Notes
    • Ms. codex.
    • Title from title page (fol. 1a).
    • 25 lines per page. Written in small nastaʻlīq in black ink. The commented text is written in red ink on fol. 2b-8a, and overlined in red in the rest of the text. Illuminated headpiece (ʻunwān) in gold and blue on fol. 1b. The text is framed within a gilt and black and blue ink border. The last words of the verso are repeated at the beginning of the opposite recto. A few marginal notes by the same hand. On fol. (i)a: Verses of poetry dated 21.10.1894. Foliation in black ink using Arabic numerals. Modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
    • Copied in Dār al-Salṭanah [Istanbul] on 15 Shaʻbān 1022 (colophon, fol. 462b).
    • Incipit: سبحان من تقدست سبحات جماله عن سمت الحدوث والزوال ... وبعد فانّ انفع المطالب حالا ومآلا ... [2ب] ... قال بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم به نستعين فاقول ضمن المص خطبة كتابه الاشارة الى مقاصد علم الكلام
    • Explicit: قال المصنف وليكن هذا آخر الكلام ... انه هو الغفور الرحيم وانا اقول هذا ما تيسر لنا بعون الله وحسن توفيقه من كشف مشكلاته وتوضيح معضلاته وتحرير مسائله وتقرير دلايله ... وجعله ذخيرا لنا يوم الدين انه خير موفق ومعين
    Binding note
    Brown leather over paper pasteboards for upper and lower covers. Traces of a fore-edge flap. Both covers are similarly tooled, with a central gold painted stamped mandorla and an outer frame made of gold painted fillets with a blind-tooled and gold painted s-shape running pattern. Brown leather doublure. Lower cover disbound.
    Provenance
    Several ownership statements, some obliterated, and seals on fol. 1a, in the name of FakhrīʹZādah Muḥammad Asʻad al-Ḥusaynī, dated 1182? H.; and of Muṣṭafá ibn al-Shaykh Shams al-Dīn al-ʻImā-ī al-Kūrānī. Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
    Source acquisition
    Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
    References
    • Mach, R. Yahuda, 3097
    • Brockelmann, C. GAL, II, 208 (IV/cmt. 1)
    • Brockelmann, C. GAL, SII, 289 (IV/cmt. 1a)
    Other format(s)
    • Microfilm negative available for reproduction.
    • Also available in an electronic version.
    OCLC
    74277785
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