Details

Subject(s)

• Islamic law—History—12th century—Sources [Browse]
• Hanafites—History—12th century—Sources [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Contains

• Burūsawī, Yaʻqūb ibn ʻAlī, -1524 or 1525. Sharḥ Shirʻat al-Islām. [Browse]
• بروسوي، يعقوب بن علي شرح شرعة الاسلام [Browse]

Summary note

Treatise on Ḥanafī law, with important glosses and commentaries, in particular, according to the title, the commentary by [Yaʻqūb ibn ʻAlī al-Rūmī] ʻAlīʹzādah [al-Banbānī] (d. 931/1524).

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from fol. (iii)a.
• 17 lines per page. Written in small nastaʻlīq in black ink with use of red. Light cream paper with laid lines visible. Table of contents on fol. (i)b-ii(a). Leaves with glosses and commentaries bound with or placed between the original fol. (see between fol. 25 and 26). These leaves are omitted by the modern foliation using Western numerals (counts fol. 1 as fol. iii) and by the foliation using Arabic numerals. Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the upper cover: "Taṣawwuf tā 107". Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the pastedown of the upper cover: "Ḥāʼ 876".
• Copy completed on Saturday 20 Ṣafar 952 (colophon, fol. 78b).
• Incipit: الحمد لله الذي دلّنا على معرفته بالشواهد والاعلام ... وبعد فهذه عقود منظومة من سنن سيّد المرسلين
• Explicit: ومن السنة ان لا يذكر ميتا من المسلمين الّا بخير ... وقال صلعم لا تسبّوا الاموات فتؤذوا به الاحياء والحمد للّه ربّ العالمين والصلوة والسلام على رسوله خير البرية محمد واله الط[---؟] الطاهرين تم

Binding note

Brown leather over paper pasteboards for upper and lower covers and envelope flap. Upper and lower covers have a similar blind stamped central mandorla and an outer frame made of fillets. Similar frame on the envelope flap. Yellow paper pastedowns.

Provenance

Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Mach, R. Yahuda, 1986
• Brockelmann, C. GAL, I, 375 (19/1)

Other format(s)

• Microfilm negative available for reproduction.
• Also available in an electronic version.

Other title(s)

شرعة الاسلام

Title on the lower edge of the text block

• Shirʻat al-Islām

OCLC

76831563

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