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Subject(s)

• Hanafites—Biography—History—14th century—Sources [Browse]
• Islamic law—Interpretation and construction—History—14th century—Sources [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]
• Nasafī, ʻAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad -1310—Manār al-anwār fī al-uṣūl [Browse]

Contains

• Qurashī, ʻAbd al-Qādir ibn Muḥammad, 1297-1373. Jawāhir al-muḍīyah fī ṭabaqāt al-Ḥanafīyah. Selections. [Browse]
• قرشي، عبد القادر بن محمد. جواهر المضية في طبقات الحنفية [Browse]
• Ibn Malak, ʻAbd al-Laṭīf ibn ʻAbd al-ʻAzīz. Sharḥ Manār al-anwār fī uṣūl al-fiqh. [Browse]
• ابن ملك، عبد اللطيف بن عبد العزيز. شرح منار الانوار في اصول الفقه [Browse]
• Ibn al-Ḍiyāʼ, Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad, 1387-1450 or 1451. Baḥr al-ʻamīq fī manāsik al-muʻtamir wa-al-ḥājj ilá Bayt Allāh al-ʻatīq. Excerpts. [Browse]
• ابن الضياء، محمد بن احمد. بحر العميق في مناسك المعتمر والحاج الى بيت الله العتيق [Browse]

Summary note

Commentary on Manār al-anwār fī uṣūl al-fiqh, a treatise on Ḥanafī uṣūl al-fiqh by al-Nasafī (d. 710/1310), with selections from al-Jawāhir al-muḍiʼah fī ṭabaqāt al-Ḥanafīyah and from other texts.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from fol. 2a (partly covered by repair).
• Physical description: Number of lines per page varies (from 36 to 25). Written in small naskh in black ink with use of red in Text 2. Dark cream paper, glossy, with laid lines and chain lines visible. Fol. 1 and 196 are later additions. Stained with dampness ; some worm damage ; a few loose leaves.
• Inscription in Arabic script in red pencil on fol. 1a: "Raqm 78".
• Origin: According to colophon, Text 2 copied by Yūsuf ibn Ibrāhīm, and completed in Mecca, on Wednesday 9 Rajab 848 [Oct. 22, 1444] (fol. 193b).

Binding note

Red leather over paper pasteboards for upper and lower covers. Both covers have a central lozenge consisting of gilt impressions of a small circular stamp. Impressions of the same stamp in the inner corners of the border, which consists of a guilloche and fillets. Rebacked. Traces of an embossed leather doublure on fol. 195b.

Contents

• 1. fol. 2b-40b: al-Multaqaṭ min al-Jawāhir al-muḍiʼah fī ṭabaqāt al-Ḥanafīyah / ʻAbd al-Qādir ibn Muḥammad al-Qurashī.
• Mach, R. Yahuda, no. 4653.
• 2. fol. 40a-193b: Sharḥ al-Manār / ʻAbd al-Laṭīf ... [Ibn] Firishtah .
• Mach, R. Yahuda, no. 898.
• 3. fol. 193b-195a: Excerpt from al-Muḥīṭ and al-Baḥr al-ʻamīq fī manāsik al-bayt al-ʻatīq.

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Provenance

Several ownership statements on fol. 1a. Reading statement in the name of al-faqīr Sulaymān on fol. 193b. Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

Mach, R. Yahuda, 898, 4653

Other format(s)

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

Other title(s)

• Multaqaṭ min al-Jawāhir al-muḍīyah fī ṭabaqāt al-Ḥanafīyah.
• ملتقط من الجواهر المضية في طبقات الحنفية

OCLC

227208079

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