Details

Subject(s)

• Islamic law—Interpretation and construction—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Hanafites [Browse]
• Islam—Doctrines—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Summary note

Treatise on Ḥanafī uṣūl al-fiqh.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title supplied by cataloger. The name of the author appears at the beginning of the text.
• Written in medium small naskh in black ink, with 15 lines per page (written surface: 128 x 85 mm.) in the beginning of the ms., and 21 lines per page (written surface: 166 x 108 mm.) for the second part. Dark cream paper with laid and chain lines visible. Important marginalia. Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the upper cover: "Uṣūl 7". Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the pastedown of the upper cover: "Ḥāʼ 504".
• Incipit: الحمد لله خالق النسم ورازق القسم مبدع البدايع وشارع الشرايع ... قال الشيخ الامام ... على بن محمد البزدوى ... العلم نوعان علم التوحيد والصفات وعلم الفقه والشرايع
• Explicit: وذلك مثل تناول محظور الاحرام عن ضروره للمحرم اى من خص له ومضر الجراء فكذلك ههنا والله الموفق والمعين وصلى الله عبى سيدنا محمد واله الطيبين الطاهرين

Binding note

Brown leather over paper pasteboards for upper and lower covers, fore-edge flap and envelope flap. Blind stamping and tooling. Yellow paper pastedown. European glazed paper free endpaper.

Provenance

Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

Mach, R. Yahuda, 852

OCLC

80553741

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