Details

Subject(s)

• Islamic law—History—13th century—Sources [Browse]
• Hanafites—History—13th century—Sources [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Summary note

Compendium on Ḥanafī law, based on the Mukhtaṣar by al-Qudūrī (d. 428/1037) and the Manẓūmah by al-Nasafī (d. 537/1142), completed in 690/1291 (see GAL).

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from beginning of text (fol. 2b, l. 12).
• Incipit: الحمد لله جاعل العلماء انجما للاهتداء زاهرة واعلاما للاقتداء طاهرة ... اما بعد فهذا كتاب يصغر للحافظ حجمه
• Explicit: منعنا الشركة او للمسجد من غير ذكر انفقاق يبطلها واجازها تمت والله اعلم
• Physical description: 13 lines per page. Written in thick medium small naskh in black ink with use of red for re-inking and key-words ; red circle text-stops. Thick cream paper with pulp visible. Marginal annotations, apparently by the same hand as the main text (scarce after fol. 57b). Several inscriptions, including ownership statements on fol. 1a-2a. Waqf (see inscription on the upper margin of fol. 2b).
• Inscription in Arabic numerals in red pencil on a label pasted on the upper cover: "161". Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the pastedown of the upper cover: "Ḥāʼ 597/2".
• Origin: Copy completed on 884 H. (colophon, fol. 137b).

Binding note

Modern library binding, in black cloth on cardboard. Glazed blue paper pastedown and free endpaper.

Provenance

Ownership statement in the name of Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Ḥalīm al-BR-- (fol. 2a) ; of Shaykh Muṣṭafá FQRī al-Qādirī al-Ṣamādī ibn Ḥasan ibn ʻAlī (fol. 2a). Seal on fol. 139a. Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Mach, R. Yahuda, 1055
• Brockelmann, C. GAL, I, 383 (49/1)

Other format(s)

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

OCLC

143736496

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