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Subject(s)

• Islamic law—Interpretation and construction—14th century [Browse]
• Malikites [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]
• Ījī, ʻAḍud al-Dīn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Aḥmad -1355?—Sharḥ Mukhtaṣar al-Muntahá [Browse]

Summary note

Gloss on a commentary by ʻAḍud al-Dīn al-Ījī (d. 756/1355) on Mukhtaṣar al-Muntahá, an abridgment by Ibn al-Ḥājib (d. 646/1249) of his Muntahá al-suʼāl wa-al-amal, a treatise on Malikī law.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from note on fol. 1a (repeated on the tail of the text block).
• 25 lines per page. Written in medium small nastaʻlīq in blak ink. Light cream paper with laid and chain lines visible. Marginal annotations. Two verses of poetry attributed to ʻAbd al-Qādir al-Kīlānī on fol. 1a. First leaves worm-eaten, with loss of text. Extremely fragile.
• Two spine labels with inscriptions, respectively "Sharḥ Mukhtaṣar Ibn Ḥājib" (in Arabic script) and "296" (in Arabic and Western numerals).
• Copy completed on 15(?) Jumādá al-Ākhirah 821 [July, 1418] by Muḥammad ibn al-sayyid ʻAlī ibn al-sayyid Raḍī al-Dīn al-Ḥusaynī (colophon, fol. 169a). Collated by Muḥammad ibn ʻUmar al-Ḥalabī (collation statement dated 8 Shaʻbān 824 [Aug. 8, 1421] on fol 169a, margin).
• Incipit: الحمد لله الذى وفقنا للوصول الى منتهى اصول الشريعة الفرّآء ... وبعد فكما ان المختصر للشيخ الامام ... ابن الحاجب
• Explicit: الى غير ذلك من التفاصيل وهذا معنى قوله فيما ذكر ارشاد لذلك والله الهادى الى سبيل الرشاد والمسئول لنيل العصمة والسداد وهو حسبى ونعم الوكيل نعم المولى ونعم النصير

Binding note

Brown leather over paper pasteboards for upper and lower covers, fore-edge flap and envelope flap. Both covers are similarly blind-tooled, with a large frame consisting of fillets and a running pattern of a floral motif. The central panel, defined by fillets has a large central lobed oval motif with a floral decoration and two pendants on the vertical axis. Edge-pieces with a floral motif. Portion of the same blind-tooling on the envelope flap. Embossed leather doublure on envelope flap and lower cover (cut). Fore-edge flap and spine mended.

Provenance

Ownership statement in the name of Muḥammad ibn ʻUmar al-Ḥalabī (see collation statement) and of ʻAlī ʻĀkif, with seal on fol. 1a. Acquired from Murād Bey Bārūdī, Beirut, 1925.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Hitti, P. Garrett coll., 1629
• Brockelmann, C. GAL, I, 306 (VIII/Auszug. Cmt.3. Gloss a) ; SI

Other title(s)

شرح مختصر ابن حاجب

Title on a spine label (vertical)

Sharḥ Mukhtaṣar Ibn Ḥājib

OCLC

128182298

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