R.13.54 (Wren Library, Trinity College Cambridge)

Oriental Manuscripts

1 copy of al-Risālah al-shamsīyah by Qazwīnī, ʻAlī ibn ʻUmar

ff. 1v.-28v.

Author: Qazwīnī, ʻAlī ibn ʻUmar, 1203 or 4-1276 or 7 نمجم الدين علي الكاتبى القزوينى

This copy is said to be the original of this celebrated treatise on logic, the following words being written on the first leaf: 'This is the Risālah shamsīyah, in the handwriting of its author, the late Mawlānā Kātibī.' ( هذه الرسالة الشمسية بخط مصنفها مولانا كاتبي عليه الرحمة )

The treatise consists of an introduction, three books and a conclusion.

Incipit: الحمد لله الذي أبدع نظام الوجود واخترع ماهيات الأشياء بمقتضي الجود وإنشاء بقدرته أنوار الجواهر العقلية وأفاض برحمته محركات الإجرام الفلكية

Explicit: ولكن هذا آخر الكلام في هذه الرسالة والحمد لواهب العقل والهداية والصلوة على محمد وآله منجي الخلائق من الغواية وأصحابه الذي هم أهل الدراية والحمد لله أولا وآخرا.

Language(s): Arabic

ff. 29v.-43v.

Title: Sharḥ al-lumʿah al-rābiʿah

Title: شرح اللمعة الرابعة

A commentary on al-Lumʿah al-rābiʿah, from the book entitled Sirr anwār, a treatise on the art of disputation.

Incipit: الحمد لله رب العالمين والسلام على سيد المرسلين وعلى آله وأصحابه الطاهرين أجمعين وبعد فهذا شرح اللمعة الرابعة في قواعد البحث من كتاب سر أنوار

Explicit: يجاز أن يستلزم المحال إذ المحال جاز أن تلزم المحال ولله الحمد

References

no. 812

Palmer, pp. 141-144

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: First treatise on thick glazed paper, discoloured by age.

Extent: 44 ff.

Hand(s)

Arabic Naskh handwriting.

History

Origin: Second treatise dated 1397 AD.

Record Sources

"Manuscript description based on "E. G. Browne: A supplementary hand-list of the Muhammadan manuscripts, including all those written in the Arabic character, preserved in the Library of the University of Cambridge. Cambridge, 1922", and "E.H. Palmer A Descriptive Catalogue of the Arabic, Persian and Turkish Manuscripts in the Library of Trinity College, Cambridge, London 1870".

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Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World

R.13.54 (Wren Library, Trinity College Cambridge)

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