Details

Subject(s)

• Islamic law—Interpretation and construction—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. 809H [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Watermarks (Paper) [Browse]
• Headbands (Binding) [Browse]
• Colored papers (Paper) [Browse]

Summary note

A short treatise on the principles of jurisprudence.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from caption (fol. 1b).
• Marginal and interlinear notes and glosses. The title also appears on a label attached to the flap hinge.
• Collation: Paper ; fol. 63 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 9 lines per page ; frame-ruled in red.
• Description: Rubricated ; some paper tinted light brown ; occasional passages overwritten in gold ink ; watermarks (anchor; countermark roman-alphabet initials with trefoil) ; MS in good condition; some pages mended.
• Origin: Probably from XVIIth century.
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله الذى هدانا الى الصراط المستقيم ... اعلم ان اصول الشرع ثلثة الکتاب والسنة واجماع الامة والاصل الرابع القياس ...
• Ending: ولهذا اذا صبر في هذين القسمين حتى قتل صار شهيدًا والله اعلم

Binding note

Later type II (with flap) binding in brown leather and brown and green paper. Endbands. Flap is detached.

Language note

Arabic;

Script

Fārisī.

Provenance

Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1631.
• Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), VI, p. 121.
• Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, II, p. 266.
• Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum orientalium (1846), 205.
• A catalogue of the Arabic manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, 321.
• Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 4385.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

Other title(s)

منار من الاصول

Later title from folio 1a

• Manār min al-uṣūl

OCLC

1340420986

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