Kitāb Pazdawī fī al-uṣūl. - Bazdawī, ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad, 1009 or 1010-1089 or 1090. ([)
Treatise on Ḥanafī uṣūl al-fiqh.
Ms. codex.
Title from note on fol. 1a.
15 lines per page. Written in clear medium small naskh in black ink with use of red for overlining and reinking, and larger script for headings. Light cream paper with laid and chain lines visible. Ḥāshiyah on the margins of some fol. (see fol. 2b-3a; 74a-119b). Table of contents on fol. 2a-b. Biographical note on the author on fol. 3a. Inscription in Arabic script in red pencil on fol. 1a: "S raqm 65".
Copy completed on 12 Shaʻbān 787 [Sept. 18, 1385] (colophon, fol. 289b).
Two ownership statements on fol. 289b, signed Shaykh Ḥasan ibn JLB Darwīsh, and Muṣṭafá ibn Maḥmūd al-Qāḍī bi-madīnat Izmīr. Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
The binding consists of two disparate covers bound by a brown leather spine. The upper cover is made of brown leather on paper pasteboard with a central blind stamped mandorla. The lower cover is made of brown leather over paper pasteboard with a central blind tooled medallion outlined in gold, the oulining developing into two pendants on the vertical axis, within an elaborate outer border. Paper pastedowns.
Keywords: Islamic law -- Interpretation and construction -- Early works to 1800.; Hanafites; Islam -- Doctrines -- Early works to 1800.; Manuscripts, Arabic -- New Jersey -- Princeton; Manuscripts, Arabic -- 14th century; manuscripts (documents)