[Taḥrīr al-qawāʻid al-manṭiqīyah fī sharḥ al-Risālah al-Shamsīyah]
[تحرير القواعد المنطقية في شرح الرسالة الشمسية]
- Description
- Commentary on the Shamsīyah of Najm al-Dīn ʻUmar ibn ʻAlī Kātibī Qazwīnī with numerous marginal glosses taken from other commentaries on the Shamsīyah. Text begins abruptly, missing approximately 4 pages from the beginning. Leaves 5-7 have been rebound into the text upside down and out of order. Three inserts have been taped to leaves (taped to f. 105v, 107r, 110r).
- Creator
- Quṭb al-Taḥtānī, Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, 1294 or 1295-1364 or 1365
- Ibrāhīm ibn Qāsim ibn ʻAlī ibn Yūsuf (scribe)
- Form
- manuscripts (documents)
- codices (bound manuscripts)
- commentaries
- tables (documents)
- Date
- 1578
- Language
- Arabic
- Persian
- Subject
- Qazwīnī, ʻAlī ibn ʻUmar, 1203 or 1204-1276 or 1277. Shamsīyah
- Logic -- Early works to 1800
- Logic
- Extent
- 126 leaves : paper, illustrations ; 208 x 148 (140 x 65) mm bound to 205 x 170 mm
- Notes
- Ms. codex.
- Title supplied by cataloger.
- Foliation: Modern foliation added in pencil, upper left recto; catchwords on most versos, last word on the page, repeated at top of following page.
- Layout: 17 long lines with extensive marginalia on all sides; frame-ruled.
- Script: Written in naskh with some marginal notations in nastaʻliq.
- Decoration: Rubrications in red, some now faded to brown; tables in red and black (f. 85r, 106r, 107r, 110r, 113-114r), simple geometrical diagrams in black (126r-127r).
- Binding: Bound in brown leather over pasteboard with flap (Type II). Covers have been reinforced with burlap sacking over the spine and around the foredge hinge. Back cover and flap are blind stamped with mandorla and frame. Front cover stamped section seems to have been cut out; the leather that is left is cracked and worn.
- Origin: Copied completed on 4 Rajab 986 A.H. (September 16, 1578) by Ibrāhīm ibn Qāsim ibn ʻAlī ibn Yūsuf.
- A leaf laid into the manuscript contains notes made in March 1939 by Rev. Peter Barsoum, pastor of the Assyrian-Apostolic Church in Worcester, Mass. He notes that an inscription on the last page indicates that the manuscript was donated by Hadji Ab-Bassim to the school (possibly the school of Bekikhan in the city of Jazir). This leaf of notes is on file in the Library.
- Forms part of the Edgar F. Smith Memorial Collection.
- Arabic; some notes in Persian.
- Related Work: Qazwīnī, ʻAlī ibn ʻUmar, 1203 or 1204-1276 or 1277. Shamsīyah. Selections.
- Related works
- Digital facsimile for download (OPenn): http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0002/html/mscodex41.html
- Digital facsimile for browsing (Colenda): https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3707wv6p
- Also listed in
- Penn Libraries Catalog
- Physical Location
- Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Ms. Codex 41
- Provenance
- Formerly owned by Ḥājī ʻIzz al-Dīn Shīr Bīk al-ʻAbbāsī and donated to his school (note on f. 127v).
- Formerly owned by Edgar F. Smith.
- ʻAbbāsī, Ḥājī ʻIzz al-Dīn Shīr Bīk, former owner.
- Smith, Edgar F. (Edgar Fahs), 1854-1928, former owner.
- Rights
- http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
- Resource Type
- Text
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