Details

Subject(s)

• Islamic law—15th century [Browse]
• Hanafites—15th century [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]
• Nasafī, ʻAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad -1310—Kanz al-daqāʼiq—Commentaries—15th century [Browse]

Summary note

Careful copy of a commentary of Kanz al-daqāʼiq, a treatise on Ḥanafī fiqh by ʻAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad al-Nasafī, d. 710/1310.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from inscription on fol. (i)a.
• Physical description: 31 lines per page. Written in small naskh with elements of nastaʻlīq ibn black ink with use of red. European paper; glossy. Table of contents dated Rabīʻ al-Ākhar 1099 [Feb.-March 1688] on fol. (i)b-(iii)b. Poem in Ottoman Turkish on fol. 160b. Catchword on the verso of each leaf. Modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals (counts the five first leaves as fol. I-V). Foliation in black ink using Arabic numerals (starts with "1" on the first recto of the text).
• Inscription in Arabic script in red pencil on fol. (i)a: "Raqm 413".
• Origin: According to colophon, copy completed in Samarqand on Monday 18 Ramaḍān 912 [Feb. 1, 1507] (fol. 159b).
• Basmallah: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه نستعين
• Incipit: الحمد هو الوصف بالجميل الاختيارى سواء تعلق بالفضايل او بالفواضل واللام للجنس والمراد مطلق المسمّى
• Explicit: من الطريق مسجدا ومن المسجد طريقا صح اتخذ خانوتا وسط البرازين منع عنه والحمد لله الذي بنعمته يتم الصالحات وصلّى الله على محمد وآله وصحبه قال ثم قرأة المتن بحضرة والدى وشيخى واستادى و ... مولانا محمد المسكين لا زالت سموس اقباله ساطعة لامعة الى يوم الدين آمين يا رب العالمين واعلا درجته جاز فى اعلامه عليين مقام الانبياء والمرسلين بحق محمد وآله اجمعين ما ان مدحت محمد بمقالى ولكن محدت بمقالتى محمد بقاء الدهر التمام باكيف اهله وهذا دعاء ... من الكتب المعتبرة المتداولة الموثوق بها

Binding note

Modern library binding in blue cloth over cardboards.

Provenance

Ownership statement in the name of AẒMzādah Ṣāliḥ AZDshīr al-Muʼayyad, dated 22 J[umādá al-] U[lá] 1301 H. [March 20, 1884] on fol. (i)a and v(a). Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Mach, R. Yahuda, 1069
• Brockelmann, C. GAL, I, 197 (3.Cmt. 6)

Other format(s)

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

Other title(s)

تبيين الحقائق

Title in GAL

• Tabyīn al-ḥaqāʼiq

OCLC

191908596

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