Details

Subject(s)

• Nasafī, ʻAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad -1310—Manār al-anwār fī al-uṣūl [Browse]
• Hanafites—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Islamic law—Interpretation and construction—Early works to 1800 [Browse]

Scribe

• Ṣūlāqʹzādah, Muṣṭafá [Browse]
• صولاق‌زادة، مصطفى، [Browse]

Former owner

• Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932 [Browse]
• Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning [Browse]

Summary note

Commentary on Manār al-anwār fī uṣūl al-fiqh; table of contents added to the beginning.

Notes

• Binding: Bound in paisley pattern brocade with green textile doublure.
• Collation: Paper, iii + 179; 1-17¹⁰ 18¹⁰(-i); [1], 2, [3-4], 5-6, [7], 8-176, [177-179], foliation in ink, upper left recto, some trimmed.
• Decoration: Illuminated headpiece (f. 1v); gold border-rules; rubrications in red.
• Item cataloged from digital facsimile and existing description.
• Layout: Written in 25 long lines.
• Ms. codex.
• Origin: The item was copied by Muṣṭafá al-maʻrūf bi-Ṣūlāqʹzādah (f. 175v), possibly in the 16th or 17th century.
• Script: Written in taʻlīq in black ink; pointed.
• Title from added title (i recto).

Location of originals

• Original Columbia, Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
• OPenn University of Pennsylvania Libraries.

Language note

Arabic.

Provenance

• Formerly held in "The Royal Library" (typed note, numbered 559, laid in).
• Formerly owned by John Frederick Lewis (bookplate, first flyleaf recto).
• Formerly owned by the Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning.

OCLC

954274744

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