Kitāb al-Kāfī fī al-ʻaqd al-ṣāfī ; al-Qusṭās al-mustaqīm ... [etc.].

Author
Format
Manuscript, Book
Language
Arabic
Published/​Created
Damascus, [1305]
Description
i, 113, i leaves : paper ; 165 x 123 (140 x 100) mm. bound to 165 x 140 mm.

Availability

Copies in the Library

Location Call Number Status Location Service Notes
Special Collections - Manuscripts Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 4181Y Browse related items Reading Room Request

    Details

    Subject(s)
    Copyist
    Contains
    Summary note
    Collection of several treatises, some fragmentary or defective, by al-Ghazzālī.
    Notes
    • Ms. codex.
    • Title supplied by cataloger, from the titles of the two first treatises in the volume.
    • Physical description: 21 lines per page. Written in small naskh in black ink with use of red. Cream paper, glossy, hardly translucid, with chain lines and pulp visible. Fol. I is a later added leaf with inscriptions, including a table of contents. Leaves missing between fol. II and III. Fol. 74, 77, 79-81, and 112 are later added leaves (European paper), blank, except for a Fāʾidah on fol. 112a. A few leaves crudely repaired, with loss of text. Modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals (omits the first three folios, numbered I-III). Foliation in black ink using Arabic numerals from "34" to "62"on fol. 21a-49a in the faulty modern foliation; from "13" to "33", on fol. 52a-72a; from "1" to "4" (not in order) on fol. 73, 75-76, and 78; from "5" to "12" on fol. 82a-89a.
    • Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the upper cover: "SH 63".
    • Origin: According to colophon of last text, copied by Ḥusayn ibn Mubārak ibn al-thiqah al-Ṣīrafī al-Mawṣilī, Damascus, Khānqāh al-Qaṣāʻīn, on Friday 12 or 22 Jumādá al-Ākhir 704(?) (fol. 111a).
    Binding note
    Brown leather over paper pasteboards for upper and lower covers, fore-edge flap and envelope-flap. Blind-tooled. Paper pastedowns.
    Contents
    • 1. fol. Ia: [Table of contents].
    • 2. fol. IIa-b: Kitāb al-Kāfī fī al-ʻaqd al-ṣāfī [only first page] / al-Ghazzālī.
    • Mach, R. Yahuda, no. 2219.
    • 3. fol. IIIa-16b: al-Qusṭās al-mustaqīm [aceph. ; first title: al-Qawl fī mīzān al-talāzum] / al-Ghazzālī.
    • 4. fol. 17a-20b: ʻAqīdat ahl al-sunnah [i.e. Kitāb Iḥyāʾ ʻulūm al-dīn. Kitāb qawāʻid al-ʻaqāʾid. Faṣl 1] / al-Ghazzālī.
    • Mach, R. Yahuda, no. 2218.
    • 5. fol. 21a-49b: Kitāb Iljām al-ʻawāmm ʻan ʻilm al-kalām / al-Ghazzālī.
    • Mach, R. Yahuda, no. 2387.
    • 6. fol. 51a-71b: Kitāb al-Munqidh min al-ḍalāl / al-Ghazzālī.
    • Mach, R. Yahuda, no. 3025.
    • 7. fol. 73a-78b: al-Durrah al-fākhirah fī kashf ʻulūm al-ākhirah [fragments; fol. 74 and 77 blank] / al-Ghazzālī.
    • Mach, R. Yahuda, no. 2531.
    • 8. fol. 82a-89b: Jawāhir al-Qurʾān [incomplete at beginning and end] / al-Ghazzālī.
    • Mach, R. Yahuda, no. 2160.
    • 9. fol. 90a-111a: Kitāb Mishkāt al-anwār / al-Ghazzālī.
    • Mach, R. Yahuda, no. 2668.
    Provenance
    On fol. Ia: Ownership statement in the name of Muḥammad Amīn al-Kazdī(?) ; reading statement ("naẓara fīhi") in the name of Ibrāhīm ibn Aḥmad. On fol. IIa: Two ownership statements, one in the name of Muṣṭafá al-Kazdī(?), the other in the name of Muḥammad Salīm al-Ḥamzawī, dated 1274 H. [1857 or 8]. Reading statement in the name of Yaḥyá ibn Ṣāliḥ on fol. 16b; repeated in a note dated 893 H. [1487 or 8], with the name reading: Yaḥyá ibn Aḥmad ibn Ṣāliḥ, on fol. 20b; repeated on fol. 49b, 71b, and 111b. Reading statement in the name of sayyid Aḥmad Asmā Ibn ...? al-Shāfiʻī al-Ṣaydāwī on fol. 20b (wrongly spelled). Reading statement in the name of Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad ibn Sharwīn dated Ṣafar 914 [1508] on fol. 71b and Jumādá al-Ākhirah 914 on fol. 111b. Two reading statements on fol. 72a, in the name of Aḥmad ibn Yūsuf ibn al-Mallāḥ al-Shāfiʻī al-Ashʻarī and of ʻAlī ibn al-ḥājj Salāmah al-Shaʻāṭin(?), dated 1064 [1653 or 4] respectively. Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
    Source acquisition
    Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
    References
    Mach, R. Yahuda, 2160, 2218, 2219, 2387, 2531, 2668, 3025
    OCLC
    182548414
    Statement on language in description
    Princeton University Library aims to describe library materials in a manner that is respectful to the individuals and communities who create, use, and are represented in the collections we manage. Read more...
    Other views
    Staff view

    Supplementary Information