Author
Samarqandī, Muḥammad ibn Ashraf, active 13th century
Author Original
Samarqandī, Muḥammad ibn Ashraf, active 13th century, سمرقندي، محمد بن اشرف
Publication Place
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[ between 14--? and 16--?]
Subject
Samarqandī, Muḥammad ibn Ashraf, active 13th century—Ṣaḥāʼif al-ilāhīyah, Islam—Doctrines—13th century, Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Type
kitap
Language
ar
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
Yes
Library
Princeton University Library
Library Asset ID
9950710673506421
Record ID
td96kc04d
Date
01-01-1400 T00:00:00 AH/12-31-1699 T:Khas:Khasz — 1400-1699
Notes
The author's commentary on his Ṣaḥāʼif al-ilāhīyah. At the end of the text, mention of a note written by the author ("ḥikāyat khaṭṭ al-muṣannif") to the effect that this Sharḥ was completed at the end of Rabīʻ al-Ākhir 750(?) [1349]. Another note on the same page refers to the date 653 [1255 or 6] (fol. 110b). | Ms. codex., Title from title page (fol. 3a)., 32 lines per page. Written in small naskh (becoming more hasty from fol. 98b on) in black ink with use of red for re-inking and headings. Dark cream paper with laid and chain lines and pulp visible. A few marginal annotations. Fol. i, 1-2, and lower cover i are later additions on or inlaid in European paper with watermark. Table of contents on fol. 1a-2b. Inscription in Arabic script on fol. (i)a, reading: "Numrah 377". Two spine labels, the second partly wanting, with respectively the title in Arabic script ("Sharḥ al-Ṣaḥāʼif al-kalāmīyah") and the number "77" (377?), in Arabic and Western numerals., Incipit: الحمد لله الذى ليس لوجوده بداية ولا لجوده نهاية والصلوة على محمد سيد المرسلين وخاتم النبيين وعلى اله واصحابه الطاهرين وبعد فان اجل المعارف واعلاها واشرف المقاصد واولها معرفة الله تعالى وصفاته ... قال الحمد لله الى آخره اقول خطبة كل كتاب ومفتح كل باب ينبغي ان يكون مناسبا له, Explicit: او عدم فهم المعتقد وغير ذلك وقد اودع فى هذا الكتاب من الدلايل والحجج والتحقيقات والتدقيقات ما يفيد هذا المطلوب والحمد لله رب العالمين والصلوة على محمد واله اجمعين | Dark brown leather over paper pasteboards for upper and lower covers. Both covers have a central blind stamped square motif. Paper pastedowns, re-used, with inscriptions in Arabic and Persian. | Several ownership statements and seals on fol. 3a. Acquired from Murād Bey Bārūdī, Beirut, 1925. | Hitti, P. Garrett coll., 1485, Mach, R. Yahuda, 3092