كتاب شرح المختصر الموسوم بالملخص المشتهر بجغميني / صنفه الفاضل المدقق سلطان العلماء السيد الشريف

Kitāb Sharḥ al-mukhtaṣar al-mawsūm bi-al-Mulakhkhaṣ al-mushtahar bi-Jighmīnī / ṣannafahu al-Fāḍil al-mudaqqiq sulṭān al-ʻulamāʼ al-Sayyid al-Sharīf.

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Format
Manuscript, Book
Language
Arabic
Published/​Created
[ 1415]
Description
56 leaves : paper ; 210 x 105 (140 x 53) mm. bound to 210 x 107 mm.

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    Summary note
    Commentary on a work on astronomy by Maḥmūd ibn Muḥammad ibn ʻUmar al-Jighmīnī (d. after 1221) entitled al-Mulakhkhaṣ fī ʻilm al-hayʼah.
    Notes
    • Ms. codex.
    • Title from note on fol. 1a.
    • 25 lines per page. Written in small nastaʻlīq in black ink with use of red. Thin dark cream paper with laid lines and pulp visible. Fol. 42 and 52-56 (blank): glazed European paper with watermark. Catchword on the verso of each leaf. Several inscriptions and ownership statements on fol. 1a. Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the upper cover: "Riyāḍiyāt 54". Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the pastedown of the upper cover: "Ḥāʼ 242".
    • Copied from an autograph on 24 Dhū al-Ḥijjah 817 by ʻAbd Allāh ---? (colophon, fol. 51b, with hardly legible mention of the name of the copyist).
    • Incipit: سبحانك اللهم يا مدير اطباق السماوات بلا عمد واوتاد على القطب ... وبعد فقد دلت البراهين العقلية والشواهد النقلية على ان اقصى ما يترجى للانسان من معارج الكمالات ... [2أ] ... قوله وجعلته يشتمل على مقدمة ومقالتين وذلك لانّ [2ب] ما ذكر فيه اما ان يكون مقصوداً بالذات
    • Explicit: وهذه السنة القمرية ناقصة عن السنة الشمسية بعشرة ايام وعشرين ساعة ونصف ساعة بالتقريب وليكن هذا اخر كلامنا فى شرح الكتاب والله سبحانه مفيض الخير و [...؟] الصواب والمرجو من اولى البصاير النقّادة ان يعمضوا(؟) عن الضرار(؟) وان لا يوخذوا بالهفوات
    Binding note
    Marbled paper pasted on golden brown leather over paper pasteboards for upper and lower covers. Paper pastedowns.
    Provenance
    Four ownership statements on fol. 1a, one signed --ām (Hishām?) ibn ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Mīkā--? al-Bukhārī? ; one signed Muḥammad al-shahīr bi-Sirājʹzādah, dated Qusṭanṭinīyah 1020 H. [1611 or 12] (or 1030 [1620 or 21]) ; one signed al-Sayyid Aḥmad Rashīd ʻAbd Allāh Afandī ---? (zādah?), with seal ; one signed Aḥmad Najīb ibn Aḥmad Ṭāhir, dated 13 J[umādá al-]U[lá] [12]81 [1864]. Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
    Source acquisition
    Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
    References
    • Mach, R. Yahuda, 4880
    • Brockelmann, C. GAL, I, 473/5. cmt. 2
    Other format(s)
    • Microfilm negative available for reproduction.
    • Also available in an electronic version.
    OCLC
    77003742
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