Type of description:

From a catalogue

Typology

Others

Current_location

Institution

Library and Information Centre of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences

Collection

Oriental Collection

Present shelfmark

Arab O. 044

Former shelfmark

Total pages

110 fols

Folio measures

212x148 mm

Material composition

Writing support

Paper

Textual composition

Textual interval

Title on manuscript

Šarḥ ʿaqāʾid al-islām

Title position

Attributed Title

Sharḥ al-`Aqā’id al-Nasafīyah

Language

Arabic

Script

Arabic

Incipit

Incipit position

Explicit

Explicit position

Preservation state

Released date

Released place

Other dates

1588

Other places

Colophon

Colophon position

General decoration

Quranic structure decoration

Quranic reading

Illustrations

Marginalia

Yes

Link to library catalogue

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Bibliographical references

Dévényi, Kinga, Munif Abdul-Fattah, and Katalin Fiedler, eds. Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Islamic Manauscripts and Books 9. Leiden - Boston: Brill, 2016

Descriptive card

The well-known commentary on al-ʿAqāʾid of ʿUmar ibn Muḥammad al-Nasafī (d. 537/1142), copied by different hands and finished at the end of Shaʿban 989 [end of September 1581]. The title appears in the work as Sharḥ ʿaqāʾid al-Islām. 110 folios; 11 lines per page; page dimensions: 212×148 mm, text dimensions: 135×76 mm; marginal notes and interlinear glosses in Arabic in black ink; partial leather binding with marbled paper covers; with missing flap; paper doublure; in good condition; paper: with watermarks; script: nastaʿlīq; ink: black; headings in red ink; catch-title in black ink; flyleaves; on fol. 1r Ottoman Turkish inscriptions dated 13 Dhu al-Qaʿda 996 [4 October 1588], Persian couplets by a Turkish hand on the Castle of Revan, and an excerpt from a ḥadīth in Arabic; fol. 1v is blank; on fol. 2r the family tree of Muḥammad, ʿAlī, and the imāms. The manuscript was bequeathed to the Library by Ármin Vámbéry (1832–1913).

Entry author

Marina Santana