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RSPA 94

Record Id:

032-003474597

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-003474597

MDARK:

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Format:

TEI

Reference (shelfmark):

RSPA 94

Title:

A Commentary on 's .

Collection Area:

Oriental Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

India Office Library
Jones Collection
Royal Society Arabic and Persian

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032-003474597

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032-003474597

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not applicable

Record Type (Level):

Fonds

Extent:

ff. iii+85+ii

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Arabic

Scripts:

Arabic

Start Date:

1600

End Date:

1699

Date Range:

1600-1699

Era:

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Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

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Subjects:

Islam--Doctrines--Early works to 1800

TEI:

India Office Library

Jones Collection

Royal Society Arabic and Persian

RSPA 94

Summary of Contents: A Commentary on al-Nasafī's ʿAqāʾid.

Language(s): Arabic

ff. 1v-83v

Title: Sharḥ ʿAqāʾid al-Nasafī

Title: شرح عقائد النسفي

Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم. الحمد لله المتوحد بجلال ذاته وكمال صفاته.

Explicit: فالترقي والعلق إنما هو في أمر التجرد و إظهار الآثار القوية لا في مطلق الشرف والكمال فلا دلالة على فضيلة الملآئكة. والله أعلم بالصواب.

Beautiful illuminated headpiece on f1v.

There are many seals and notes on f1r and f84v, including a seal of Qābil Khānand other unidentified officials of the Mughal emperor Aurangzeb(r. 1658-1707) and his brother prince Dara Shikoh.

Author: al-Taftāzānī, Masʿūd ibn ʿUmar مسعود بن عمر التفتازاني

Physical Description

Form: codex

Material: paper

Support: Thick brown woven paper which has been laminated on (most) verso sides.

Extent: ff. iii+85+ii

Dimensions (leaf): 225 × 160 mm.

Dimensions (written): 133 × 74 mm.

Foliation:

European numerals in pencil.

Condition

The manuscript is in very good condition after having been repaired. Most folios have been laminated along the verso side, which repairs some minor worm damage.

Layout

Columns:1

Written lines: 14

The text is uniformly written in one column of 14 lines per side.

Hand(s)

Beautiful and careful black naskh script with gold headings and text divisions.

Decoration

Illuminated headpiece on f1v, this being a gold rectangle surrounding a deep blue floral design with the title on gold illumination inside this.

Additions:

There are marginal comments and additions on many folios, particularly clustered towards the beginning of the MS. These are all in Arabic.

Catchwords are present on every page.

Binding

Modern British Library binding with flap.

Accompanying Material

History

Origin: 1600-1699

Provenance and Acquisition

Previously belonged to prince Dara Shikoh and subsequently passed into the imperial Mughal library.

RSPA 1-118 were presented to the Royal Society in January 1792 by Sir William and Lady Jones. According to Wilkins' catalogue, this MS was presented by Sir William Jones.

The Royal Society's collection of 280 Persian and Arabic, and 86 Sanskrit manuscripts were transferred to the India Office Library in 1876.

1876

India Office Library

Record Sources

Manuscript description based on E. Denison Ross and E. G. Browne, Catalogue of two collections of Persian and Arabic manuscripts preserved in the India Office Library (London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1902), p. 64 no. XCIV

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Subjects

Islam--Doctrines--Early works to 1800