Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World

N. 3 (University Library, Cambridge University)

E. G. Browne Collection

Contents

Summary of Contents: شوارق الالهام في شرح تجريد الكلام Shawáriqu l-Ilhám, a commentary by 'Abdu'r-Razzáq al-Láhijí, a well-known
Persian theologian and philosopher who flourished in the middle of the seventeenth
century of the Christian era, on the Tajrídu'l-Kalám (or 'Aqá id) of Naşiru'd-
Din Túsi (d. 672/1273-4). This commentary, according to Rieu (Persian Catalogue,
p. 32), was printed at Tihrán in 1280/1863-4. The contents of the highly esteemed
Tajrid are given by Ahlwardt (Berlin Arabic Catalogue, vol. 11, p. 331, No. 1745).
See also Brockelmann's Gesch. d. Arab. Litt., vol. 1, p. 509, and the Kashful-Hujub
wal-Astár (Calcutta, A.H. 1330), No. 452 (pp. 97-98). Begins:
ا افتح بيننا وبين قومنا بالحق وانت خير الفاتحين اما بعد .. فيقول العبد الراجي وبباب
رنا
ربه الملتجى عبد الرزاق اللاهيجى بن على بن حسين اللاهيجي الخ
This MS., one of those bought of Hájji 'Abdu'l-Majid Belshah in 1920, com-
prises 195 ff. of 24'6 x 15 c. and 21 ll., and is written in a small, neat and fairly
legible walk, without date or colophon.

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: Paper
Extent: Ff. 195
Dimensions: 24.6 × 15 cm.

Layout

21 lines

Hand(s)

Small, neat and fairly legible script

History

Origin: undated

Provenance and Acquisition

This MS., one of those bought of Hájji 'Abdu'l-Majid Belshah in 1920

Bequest of E. G. Browne.

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Funding of Cataloguing

JISC


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