Princeton University, Islamic Manuscripts Garrett no. 369B

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DS ID:

DS29430

Shelfmark:

Islamic Manuscripts Garrett no. 369B

Title:

Sharḥ ʻAqāʼid al-Ṭaḥāwī / / شرح عقائد الطحاوي /

Author:

Turkistānī, Hibat Allāh ibn Aḥmad, 1272 or 3 - 1333 / تركستاني، هبة الله بن احمد

Hibat Allāh ibn Aḥmad Ṭarāzī WIKIDATA

Date:

between 13--? and 1446

fourteenth century (dates CE) AAT

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

ara

Arabic WIKIDATA

Material:

paper

Paper AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: i, 92, i leaves: paper ; 190 x 123 (130 x 85) mm. bound to 175 x 130 mm.

Note:

Ms. codex.
Title from illuminated title page (fol. 1a). Could also be read "ʻaqīdah".
13 lines per page. Written in careful medium small naskh in black ink with use of red for headings. The text is vocalized. Thick dark cream paper with laid lines, some chain lines, and pulp visible. Catchword on verso of some leaves.
Illuminated title page (ʻunwān) in gold and blue, with some red (fol. 1a): The title-page consists of an upper panel with two red, blue, and gold medallions on the left margin, and a lower scalloped panel. The upper panel is divided in two parts each framed within a gold border outlined in black. The upper part has the title written in stylistic "Kufic" in gold on a blue ground with a gold and...
Serious worm damage on the inner margin. Extremely fragile.
The manuscripts is not dated. Apparently copied 14th-15th cent.
Two spine labels (vertical) with inscriptions reading respectively: "Sharḥ ʻAqīdat al-Ṭaḥāwī li-Hibat Allāh al-Turkustānī" [in Arabic script] and "369" [in Arabic and western numerals].
Ibrāhīm ibn Bahādur al-Ḥanafī (fol. 1a). Two ownership statements on fol. 1a, in the name of ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Muḥammad ibn Ismāʻīl al-Ḥanafī, known as al-Kurdī (or: al-Karakī? see al-Ḍawʼ al-lāmiʻ, vol. 4, p. 124) and of Muḥammad ibn ismāʻīl al-Dasūqī al-Ḥanafī al-Shāmī, the latter dated 1 Rabīʻ al-Thānī 1072 (or 3?) [1661 or 2] (see also fol. 92b). Four reading statements and ownership...

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Arabic

Fourteenth century

illuminations (paintings)

title pages

Islamic Empire

illuminated manuscripts

New Jersey--Princeton

ʻAqīdah (Ṭaḥāwī, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad)

Commentaries

Thirteenth century

Islam--Doctrines

Faith (Islam)

Early works

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/9951686563506421

IIIF Manifest:

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/371e7110-b027-4a15-a2f4-d71ed13c32e7/manifest

Holding Institution:

Princeton University