ʻIṣām al-Dīn ʻalá al-Waḍʻīyah ... etc

Title:

ʻIṣām al-Dīn ʻalá al-Waḍʻīyah ... etc
عصام الدين على الوضعية ... الخ،

Creator:

ʻIṣām al-Asfarāyīnī, Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad
عصام الاسفرايني، ابراهيم بن محمد

Contributor:

Jurjānī, ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad, al-Sayyid al-Sharīf
Qūshjī, ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad
جرجاني، علي بن محمد، السيد الشريف
قوشجي، علي بن محمد

Date:

[1702]

Description:

Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 109Origin: As appears in colophon on p.114, transcription of the sharḥ by ʻAlī al-Qūshjī completed 3 Dhū al-Ḥijjah 1113 [ca. 1 May 1702] ; paper suggests that other works were copied around the same time, even late 17th century.Accompanying materials: Inserted slip bearing glosses (paginated pp.3-4).Former shelfmark: British Museum, London "No. 61. Two commentaries on Al-Risalat al-wadiyah."Binding: Pasteboards (very thin, semi-limp) covered in marbled paper (mainly in white and shades of blue) with brown leather over spine and edges/turn-ins (marbled paper faced, leather edged, framed binding) ; Type III binding (without flap) ; board linings in European laid paper ; sewn in light pink thread, four and two stations ; overall in fair condition with significant abrasion, lifting and losses of paper and leather, delamination of boards, etc.Support: European laid paper in a few different types ; text of first work on type with 12 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 28 mm. apart (horizontal), and watermark of flower on stem with leaves ; next work on another type with laid lines spaced 7-8 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 28 mm. apart (horizontal), and three crescents watermark ; final works on still another type with 14 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 20 mm. apart (horizontal), and watermark of bar carrying name/initials with grapes ; all types well-burnished.Decoration: Abbreviation symbols and keywords rubricated ; overlining in red ; text of the sharḥ by ʻAlī al-Qushjī surrounded by frame consisting of a gold band flanked by black fillets.Script: Naskh and naskh-nastaʻlīq ; at least three different hands ; all virtually serifless with elongation of horizontal strokes ; naskh freely ligatured with mainly closed counters, final yāʼ and alif maqṣūrah mardūdah, and pointing in curved lines rather than distinct dots ; naskh-nastaʻlīq shows slight effect of words descending to baseline and letterforms characteristic of nastaʻlīq.Layout: Written in 15, 21 and 25 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: 2 V(20), IV (28), III (34), V-1 (43), V (53), I+1 (56), III (62) ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes insert).Title supplied by cataloguer.Ms. composite codex.8. p.121-p.126 : [blank].7. p.118-p.120 : [Risālah fī al-waḍʻ].6. p.116-p.118 : Sharḥ al-Sayyid al-Sharīf lil-qāḍī ʻAḍud al-Dīn / al-Jurjānī.5. p.115 : [blank].4. p.72-p.114 : [Sharḥ al-Risālah al-waḍʻīyah] / ʻAlī al-Qūshjī.3. p.70-71 : [blank].2. p.69 : [originally blank, now carries a listing of the author's works].1. p.2-p.68 : ʻIṣām al-Dīn ʻalá al-Waḍʻīyah / ʻIṣām al-Dīn Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad al-Isfarāyīnī.Fine copy of three of the principal commentaries on al-Ījī's seminal treatise in ʻilm al-waḍʻ, al-Risālah al-waḍʻīyah, namely that of ʻIṣām al-Dīn al-Isfarāʼinī (d.1537), ʻAlāʼ al-Dīn ʻAlī al-Qūshjī (Ali Kuşçu, d.1474), and ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad al-Jurjānī, al-Sayyid al-Sharīf (d.1413). Followed by a brief anonymous treatise on the same subject.

Language:

Arabic

Type (Narrower):

Manuscripts

Type (Broader):

Text

Subject:

Ījī, ʻAḍud al-Dīn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Aḥmad, -1355? Risālah al-waḍʻīyah.
Manuscripts, Arabic
Language and languages Philosophy Early works to 1800.
Arabic language Semantics Early works to 1800.
Arabic philology Early works to 1800.

Extent:

62 leaves : paper ; 213 x 142 (149-155 x 61-85) mm.

Rights:

Public Domain

Format:

Book
Manuscript/Archive
Online
Print

Same as:

https://search.lib.umich.edu/catalog/record/006492312

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