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Manuscript/Mixed Material al-Quṭb ʻalá al-Shamsīyah fī fann al-manṭiq القطب على الشمسية في فن المنطق

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Title

  • al-Quṭb ʻalá al-Shamsīyah fī fann al-manṭiq

Other Title

  • القطب على الشمسية في فن المنطق

Summary

  • Manuscript purporting to be Quṭb al-Taḥtānī's commentary on Qazwīnī's al-Risālah al-Shamsīyah; however the text and format differ radically from the other two copies in this collection and from digitized versions of early printed editions of this work.

Names

  • Quṭb al-Taḥtānī, Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, 1294 or 1295-1364 or 1365
  • Manṣūrī, Maḥmūd al-Imām, former owner
  • Mansuri Collection (Library of Congress)

Created / Published

  • [18th century?]

Headings

  • -  Qazwīnī, ʻAlī ibn ʻUmar,--1203 or 1204-1276 or 1277.--Shamsīyah
  • -  Logic--Early works to 1800
  • -  Arab logic
  • -  Manuscripts, Arabic--Washington (D.C.)

Notes

  • -  Manuscript.
  • -  Arabic.
  • -  Title from fol. 1a in later hand.
  • -  Name of scribe not indicated.
  • -  Purchase of Mahmud al-Mansuri collection, 1945.
  • -  Place of writing not determined.
  • -  Paper; lighly polished cream color laid paper with horizontal chain lines and watermark of three crescent moons in a row; black ink with some rubrication and overlining.
  • -  Brockelmann. GAL, GI, p. 466; SI, p. 845
  • -  Naskh; 19 lines in written area 16 x 10 cm.
  • -  Fol. 1b-144b.
  • -  "H-0907 = 5.58."
  • -  Library of Congress. Mansuri Collection, 5-058.
  • -  Binding; black half leather with black grain sides and flap; envelope binding; text block not attached to binding.
  • -  Incipit: البسملة. قال ورتبته على مقدمة وثلث مقالات وخاتمة. اقول الرسالة مرتبة على مقدمة وثلث مقالات وحاتمة اما المقدمة نفي ماهية المنطق وبيان الحاجة اليه ...
  • -  Explicit/Colophon: والحمد لله داهب الوجود ومفيض الاززاق وصلوة على افضل البشر الطلاق محمد وآله واصحابه وازواجه وزوجته والله اعلم بالصواب واليه المرجع والماب والحمد لله رب العالمين.

Medium

  • 144 leaves (19 lines), paper : bound ; 22.3 x 16.7 cm

Call Number/Physical Location

  • BC66.A7 K337 1700z

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2017454631

Online Format

  • pdf
  • image

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Chicago citation style:

Quṭb Al-Taḥtānī, Muḥammad Ibn Muḥammad, 1294 Or Or 1365, Maḥmūd Al-Imām Manṣūrī, and Mansuri Collection. al-Quṭb ʻalá al-Shamsīyah fī fann al-manṭiq. [18th Century?, 1700] Manuscript/Mixed Material. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2017454631/.

APA citation style:

Quṭb Al-Taḥtānī, M. I. M., Manṣūrī, M. A. & Mansuri Collection. (1700) al-Quṭb ʻalá al-Shamsīyah fī fann al-manṭiq. [18th Century?] [Manuscript/Mixed Material] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2017454631/.

MLA citation style:

Quṭb Al-Taḥtānī, Muḥammad Ibn Muḥammad, 1294 Or Or 1365, Maḥmūd Al-Imām Manṣūrī, and Mansuri Collection. al-Quṭb ʻalá al-Shamsīyah fī fann al-manṭiq. [18th Century?, 1700] Manuscript/Mixed Material. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/2017454631/>.