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Subject(s)

• Nasafī, ʻAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad -1310—Kanz al-daqāʼiq—Commentaries—14th century [Browse]
• Islamic law—Interpretation and construction—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Hanafites—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Summary note

Volume 2-6 of a six volume copy of a commentary on a treatise in Ḥanafī fiqh, the Kanz al-daqāʼiq by Abū al-Barakāt al-Nasafī (d. 710/1310).

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from colophon of vol. 1 (fol. 143a).
• 29 lines per page. Written in medium small naskh in black ink with use of red for headings, "qāla", re-inking and overlining. Light cream paper, glossy, with laid and chain lines visible. Ḥāshiyah on the margin. Foliation in red ink using Arabic numerals. Mention "waqf" on the margins.
• Table of contents by a later hand on vol. 1 (fol. 1a), vol. 2 (fol. 2a, crossed out), vol. 4 (fol. 1a), vol. 5 (fol. 1a), vol. 6 (fol. 1a).
• Note mentioning the number of folios in the vol. on vol. 1 (fol. 143a), vol. 4 (fol. 157b), vol. 5, fol. 188b, vol. 6 (fol. 192a), with a mention of the total number of leaves in the six volumes.
• Each volume has a label pasted on the upper cover, with inscription in Arabic script reading "107" (some have "Ḥāʼ 107" on the pastedown of the upper cover).
• Copy of vol. 1 completed on the last day of Shaʻbān 856 [Sept. 16, 1452] by Ismāʻīl ibn Khalīl ibn Aḥmad al-Ghazzī (colophon, fol. 143a). Copy of vol. 6 completed on 5 Muḥarram 859 [Dec. 26, 1454] by the same (al-Ḥanafī added).
• Vol. 2 and 4 collated on an autograph by Aḥmad ibn Yūnus al-..., known as Ibn al-ShLBī (the name appears on vol. 4; see collation statement, vol. 1, fol. 143a, dated 5 Rajab 938 [Feb. 12, 1532] ; vol. 4, fol. 157b, dated 23 Shaʻbān 938 [March 31, 1532]).
• Reading statement in the name of Aḥmad al-ʻIbādī(?) al-Ḥanafī, dated Jāmiʻ al-Azhar, Jumādá I 1067 [Feb.-March 1657] on vol. 1, fol. 143a.

Binding note

Vol. 2, 4, 5 are similarly bound with golden brown leather (partly wanting on vol. 4) over paper pasteboards for upper and lower covers, fore-edge flap and envelope flap. Both covers have a central gold stamped mandorla with two gold stamped pendants on the vertical axis, the whole outlined in gold with radiating flecks. The outer border consists of gold fillets and a guilloche. Similar border on the envelope flap, with a small gold stamped motif outlined in gold with radiating flecks at its center. Marbled paper pastedowns. Vol. 3 and 6 are bound in the same leather, with the same outer border on the covers, and a larger blind stamped central mandorla, with two pendants on the vertical axis (blind-stamped on vol. 6, gold-stamped on vol. 3). Blind-stamped motif on the envelope flap, outlined in gold.

Contents

• 1. vol. 2 (incomplete at the beginning) : [Kitāb al-Ḥajj, Bāb al-Iḥrām] - Kitāb al-Ṭalāq, Bāb al-Rajʻah (end of Juzʼ 1).
• 2. vol. 3 (incomplete at end) : Bāb al-Īlāʼ - Kitāb al-Mafqūd.
• 3. vol. 4 (incomplete at beginning) : Kitāb al-Mafqūd (end) - Kitāb al-Wikālah, Bāb ʻAzl al-wakīl (end of Juzʼ 2).
• 4. vol. 5 : Kitāb al-Daʻwá - Kitāb al-Qismah.
• 5. vol. 6 : Kitāb al-Muzāraʻah - end.

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Provenance

Waqf statement in the name of Masʻūd, formerly Āghā Dār al-Saʻādah al-Sharīfah [Istanbul], who first endowed the set for the Jāmiʻ al-Azhar in 1079 H. [1668] and then changed it ("rajaʻa ʻan sharṭihi al-awwal") in favor of al-Sayyid ʻAlī Efendi, qāḍī al-quḍāh bi-al-Diyār al-Miṣrīyah and his progeny, then for the Jāmiʻ Shāhʹzāde, dated beginning of Muḥarram 1096 [Dec. 1684] (vol. 1, fol. 1a-b; vol. 2, fol. 1a-b; vol. 4, 2a-b ; vol. 5, fol. 2b ; vol. 6, fol. 2b, with impressions of a small rectangular stamp with the inscription "ʻAbduhu Masʻūd"; impressions of the same stamp throughout). Vol. 5 has impressions of an oval stamp with the inscription "Masʻūd". Impression of a small circular stamp with inscription reading "Muḥammad Ṭāhir", dated 1211 H. [1796 or 7] on vol. 2, fol. 182b. Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Mach, R. Yahuda, 1065
• Brockelmann, C. GAL, II, 196 (1/III. Cmtre 1) ; SII

Other format(s)

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

OCLC

127136580

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