Collection ID: 0023 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

al-Tawḍīḥ.
التوضيح

Authors

• Maḥbūbī, ʻUbayd Allāh ibn Masʻūd, -1346 or 1347
  محبوبي، عبيد الله بن مسعود،
• Samarqandī, Abū al-Qāsim ibn Abī Bakr, active 15th century
  سمرقندي، ابو القاسم بن ابي بكر،
• Hibat Allāh ibn Salāmah, -1019
  هبة الله بن سلامة،
• Maḥbūbī, ʻUbayd Allāh ibn Masʻūd, -1346 or 1347
  محبوبي، عبيد الله بن مسعود،
• Free Library of Philadelphia. Rare Book Department. John Frederick Lewis Collection of Oriental Manuscripts

Other related names

• ʻAbd al-Ghafūr, active 1880, former owner
  عبد الغفور،
• Morton, Eden, active 1880, former owner

Call number

Lewis O 169
(Philadelphia, Free Library of Philadelphia, Rare Book Department)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 2572446
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1243898069
• https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0023/html/lewis_o_169.html
• https://know.freelibrary.org/Record/2572446

Publisher

Free Library of Philadelphia

Language

Arabic with some Persian

Origin

Date

A.H. 1241-1242 (1826-1827)

Summary

A copy of the Tawḍīḥ, which is a commentary on another work by al-Maḥbūbī called Tanqīḥ al-uṣūl; three other, shorter works are also included: on metaphor, on abbrogated verses and one poem in Persian.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title of main text from colophon (f. 336v); other titles from caption titles.
   
• 1. f. 1v-4r: Farāʼid al-fawāʼid li-taḥqīq maʻānī al-istiʻārah -- 2. f. 4v-31v: Kitāb al-nāsikh wa-al-mansūkh -- 3. f. 32r-33v : Risālah-i Mullā Zāhirī -- 4. f. 36v-336v: al-Tawḍīḥ -- 5. f. 337v-338v: [Notes]
   
• Description from auction catalog, number 362, tipped in before front flyleaf; note in pencil on clipping, "Carnegie Cat 334, June 1973".
   

Extent

I, 338 leaves : 248 x 142 (185 x 85) mm, bound to 256 x 152 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation in pencil added, upper left recto; catchwords every verso, lower left.

Support

Paper

Binding

Lacquered boards with floral center and text in the border; insides are gold floral designs on a black ground.

Layout

Written in 15-19 long lines; partially border-ruled.

Script

Written in nastaʻlīq in black ink, pointed.

Provenance

• Formerly owned by ʻAbd al-Ghafūr, "This Koran was taken from the library of Abdul Gafur in May 1880 by the column under command of Major General John Ross C.B." [signed] Eden Morton Lt. Col. (f. 338v).
   
• Formerly owned by Eden Morton, "A present from Subadar Major Nutha Singh 23rd Pioneers" (signature and note, first flyleaf recto at front of book)
   

Subjects topical

• Maḥbūbī, ʻUbayd Allāh ibn Masʻūd,---1346 or 1347--Tanqīḥ al-uṣūl
• Islamic law--Interpretation and construction--Early works to 1800
• Hanafites--Early works to 1800
• Arabic language--Rhetoric--Early works to 1800
• Manuscripts, Arabic--19th century
• Manuscripts, Persian--19th century
• Manuscripts, Oriental--19th century
• Arabic language--Rhetoric
• Hanafites
• Islamic law--Interpretation and construction
• Manuscripts, Arabic
• Manuscripts, Oriental
• Manuscripts, Persian

Genres

• codices (bound manuscripts)
• Commentaries
• manuscripts (documents)
• Early works

Licenses

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