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Subject(s)

• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Contains

Aṣamm, Yūsuf ibn Muḥammad, -1593 or 1594. Sharḥ ḥadīth Kuntu kanzan makhfīyan. [Browse]

Related record(s)

• Mīrzā Jān ʻalá Ithbāt al-wājib.
• Risālah Ḥanafīyah ʻalá Ithbāt al-wājib lil-Dawwānī.
• Risālah qadīmah li-ithbāt al-wājib / li-Mawlānā Jalāl al-Dīn al-Dawwānī.

Summary note

Collection of texts comprising Risālat Ithbāt al-wājib of Jalāl al-Dīn al-Dawwānī, a commentary by Mullā Ḥanafī [Muḥammad al-Tabrīzī al-Ḥanafī in Mach, R. Yahuda], and a supergloss by Mīrzā Jān Ḥabīb Allāh al-Shīrāzī.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title provided by cataloger.
• 19 to 23 lines per page. Written in small naskh in black ink with use of red. European? glazed paper with laid and chain lines visible. On fol. 1a: Table of contents and several ownership statements and seals. On first back fly-leaf: mention "214 ʻayn" in Arabic. Foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• The last text is dated Mārdīn, Jumādá al-Ulá 1042 and signed ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Ibrāhīm (colophon, fol. 87b).

Binding note

Brown leather over paper pasteboard for upper and lower covers and envelope flap. Traces of a blind-tooled decoration with frame made of fillets and stamps. Rebacked. Paper pastedowns and endleaves.

Contents

• 1. fol. 1a-32b: Risālah Ḥanafīyah ʻalá Ithbāt al-wājib lil-Dawwānī / [Muḥammad Mullā Ḥanafī].
• 2. fol. 33a-56a: Risālah qadīmah li-ithbāt al-wājib / Mawlānā Jalāl al-Dīn al-Dawwānī.
• 3. fol. 56b: [Commentary on the ḥadīth qudsī "Kuntu kanzan makhfīyan fa-aḥabbtu ..."] / Yūsuf al-Aṣamm.
• 4. fol. 58a-87b: Mīrzā Jān ʻalā Ithbāt al-wājib / [Ḥabīb Allāh] Mīrzā Jān.

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Provenance

Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

Mach, R. Yahuda, 2398, 2399, 2401

OCLC

70660995

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