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Subject(s)

• Maḥbūbī, ʻUbayd Allāh ibn Masʻūd -1346 or 1347—Tanqīḥ al-uṣūl [Browse]
• Islamic law—Interpretation and construction—14th century [Browse]
• Hanafites [Browse]
• Islamic education—History—19th century—Sources [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Summary note

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

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from preamble of text (fol. 1b).
• Physical description: 21 lines per page. Written in medium small nastaʻlīq in black ink with use of red ; gets thicker from fol. 31 on. A single line in gold frames the text on fol. 1b-2a. Ḥāshiyah on the margin by several hands (specially on beginning of text). Several inscriptions on fol. 1a and 202b, including a table of contents (fol. 1a), ownership statements, and verses of poetry in Arabic and in Ottoman Turkish. Stained with water (loss of a few marginal annotations).
• Collation: Paper, fol. 202 ; 1-19¹⁰ 20¹² ; the last words of the verso are repeated on the next recto.
• Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the upper cover: "Uṣūl 101". Inscription in Arabic numerals on a label pasted on the pastedown of upper cover: "1262/2 Ḥ".
• Origin: According to colophon, copy completed on 17 Dhū al-Ḥijjah 1048 [April 21, 1639] by Aḥmad ibn ʻAlī, resident of Maḥallat Sinān Pāshā, from the maḥallāt of Qusṭanṭinīyah.
• Copyist: Aḥmad ibn ʻAlī.
• Incipit: حامدا لله تعالى اولا وثانيا ولعنان الثناء اليه ثانيا وعلى افضل رسله محمد وآله مصليا وفي حليته الصلوات مجليا ومصليا وبعد فان العبد المتوسل الى الله تعالى باقوى الذريعة عبيد الله بن مسعود بن تاج الشريعة سعد جدّه وانجح جده يقول لما وفقنى الله تع بتاليف كتاب تنقيح الاصول اردت ان اشرح مشكلاته وافتح مغلقاته معرضا عن شرح بعض المواضع
• Explicit: حرمة لا تحتمل السقوط وحرمة تحتمل السقوط لكنهما لم تسقط وهما حق الله تعالى ويجب الضمان لوجود العصمة والله الموفق بالخيرات وهو الملهم بالصواب

Binding note

Quarter bound with flap in marbled paper and brown leather. Marbled paper pastedowns. Wear.

Provenance

Several ownership statements some with impressions of a seal on fol. 1a, including one in the name of Munlā Muṣṭafá ...; of al-Ḥājj Ḥasan ibn Mūsá (dated Miṣr, 1125 H.); of --ūrshāh (dated Rajab 1158) ; of Samī Ḥafīd ... Ibn Mūsá ibn Ismaʻīl Afandī Ibn muṣallī min ḥabūs Sulṭān Bayāzīd Khān. Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

Mach, R. Yahuda, 917

Other format(s)

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

OCLC

209807714

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