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Subject(s)

• Maḥbūbī, ʻUbayd Allāh ibn Masʻūd -1346 or 1347—Tanqīḥ al-uṣūl [Browse]
• Islamic law—Interpretation and construction—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Hanafites—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Related name

• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 813H [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Headbands [Browse]
• Autographs [Browse]
• Stamps [Browse]

Summary note

Commentary on the author's Tanqīḥ al-Uṣūl, on the principles of jurisprudence.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from preamble (fol. 7b, l. 12).
• Ḥāshiyah on the margins and after the end of the text on fol. 223a-b. Ownership statement on fol. 1a, and a table of contents on fol. 1b-3a. Verses of poetry (3 lines) attributed to Abū Yūsuf on fol. 223b. Several inscriptions on fol. 6b-7a, including the mention of a price and ownership statements.
• Layout: 17 lines per page.
• Description: Overlining and abbreviations in red ; watermarks on later folios 1-5 and 224 (moon).
• Origin: Date 750 added at the end of the text (fol. 222b).
• Incipit: حامدا لله تعالى اولا وثانيا ولعنان الثناء اليه ثانيا وعلى افضل رسله محمد وآله مصليا وفي حليته الصلوات مجليا ومصليا وبعد فان العبد النتوسل الى الله تعالى باقوى الذريعة عبيد الله بن مسعود تاج الشريعة سعد جدّه وانجح جده يقول لما وفقنى الله تع بتاليف تنقيح الاصول اردت ان اشرح مشكلاته وافتح مغلقاته معرضا عن بعض المواضع
• Explicit: حرمة لا تحتمل السقوط وحرمة تحتمل السقوط لكنها لم تسقط وهما حق الله تعالى ويجب الضمان لوجود العصمة والله اعلم بالصواب

Binding note

Later type II (with flap) binding in dark brown leather and marbled paper. Paper pastedowns. Yellow flyleaves. Endbands.

Provenance

Ownership statement in the name of Sulaymān al-Muftīʹzādah in the town of SHMNī(?) on fol. 1a, with seal. Several ownership statements on fol. 7a, including one in the name of Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn, in Istanbul, with seal; and one in the name of Muṣṭafá ibn Aḥmad Qūtarī(?). Acquired by Robert Garrett from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

Hitti, P. Garrett coll., 1638

Other format(s)

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

Other title(s)

كتاب التوضيح

Title in ownership statement on fol. 1a

• Kitāb al-Tawḍīḥ

OCLC

173974161

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