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Subject(s)

• Ustarūshanī, Muḥammad ibn Maḥmūd -1234 or 1235—Fuṣūl [Browse]
• استروشني، محمد بن محمود—فصول [Browse]
• Marghinānī, ʻAbd al-Raḥīm ibn Abī Bakr active 13th century—Fuṣūl al-iḥkām fī uṣūl al-aḥkām [Browse]
• مرغناني، عبد الرحيم بن ابي بكر—فصول الاحكام في اصول الاحكام [Browse]
• Islamic law—15th century [Browse]
• Hanafites—15th century [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• Headpieces (layout features)—Islamic Empire—16th century [Browse]
• Illuminated manuscripts—Islamic Empire—16th century [Browse]

Summary note

Handbook on Islamic law in forty faṣl composed in 814/1411 (GAL), based on the Fuṣūl by Muḥammad ibn Maḥmūd al-Ustarūshanī (GAL: Ustrūshanī, d. 632/1234) and that by ʻAbd al-Raḥīm ibn Abī Bakr al-Marghinānī (d. ca. 670/1271). See description of contents in the preamble, fol. 1b-9a.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from illuminated title page (fol. 1a; the same title appears in the colophon, fol. 272a). The second part of the title, mentioning the author's name, is hardly legible.
• Physical description: 27 lines per page. Written in medium small naskh in black ink with use of red (gold and gold text-stops on fol. 1b). Illuminated title page (fol. 1a). Illuminated headpiece with the basmalah (fol. 1b). European paper with watermark; a few quires of darker paper with fibers visible on the surface; glossy. Fol. 273 is a later added endpaper with inscriptions (legal decision by Muḥammad al-faqīr al-Kawākibī, muftī in Aleppo, and al-Marghinānī, as used by Jawī Zādah and Bustān Zādah; inverted). Catchword on the verso of each leaf. Some qires are numbered in red ink using Arabic numerals. Modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals (omits the first folio).
• Illuminated title page (ʻunwān, fol. 1a) with a panel divided in two parts: the upper part occupied the upper third of the panel and consists of a cartouche in gold, black, red, and blue, with the title; the lower part consists of a central roundel in gold, black, and blue, with the name of the author, on a ground left blank; the blue outline extents on the vertical and horizontal axis and connects to a frame with corner pieces with a floral motif. The panel is outlined in blue. Left portion of the leaf wanting.
• Origin: According to colophon, copy completed on Sunday 10 Rabīʻ al-Ākhar 973 [Nov. 4, 1565] (fol. 272a).
• Incipit: الحمد لله الذى اعلى شان الشريعة وكرم من اتخذها اليه وسيلة وذريعة وجعلنا من امة خير خليفته ومن علينا باتباع طريقته محمد المبعوث الى كافة الانام وصلواته عليه وعلى اله الكرام اما بعد فان العبد الذليل محمود بن اسرائيل الشهير بابن قاضى سماونه عفى الله تعالى [ع]ن سقطاته ولا يواخذه بعفواته يقول لما طالعت فى الفصولين الذين احدهما لمحمد بن محمود الاستروشنى والاخر لعماد الدين اسكنهما الله فراديس الجنان ...الفيتهما من اعظم ما صنف فى الفتاوى
• Explicit: فلا بد ان يبين قيمه كلا الموضعين كذا فش

Binding note

Brown leather over paper pasteboards for uppe an lower covers. Central blind stamped scalloped mandorla, outlined in gold. The outlined develops into a line on the vertical axis connecting to the gold outline of the outer border, with consists of blind fillets. Marbled paper pastedowns. Upper cover detached.

Provenance

Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Mach, R. Yahuda, 1092
• Brockelmann, C. GAL, II, 225 (6/1) ; SII

Other format(s)

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

Other title(s)

جامع الفصولين

Title in preamble (fol. 1b) and on tail of text block

• Jāmiʻ al-Fuṣūlayn

OCLC

191849651

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