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Subject(s)

• Maḥbūbī, ʻUbayd Allāh ibn Masʻūd -1346 or 1347—Tanqīḥ al-uṣūl [Browse]
• Islamic law—Interpretation and construction—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Hanafites—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. 814H [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Headbands [Browse]

Summary note

A commentary on Tanqīḥ al-uṣūl, the author's own treatise on the principles of jurisprudence.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from preface (fol. 1b).
• Marginal and interlinear notes and glosses.
• Collation: Paper ; fol. 152 + i ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 19 lines per page.
• Description: Rubricated ; folio 1 is a replacement page, and the only one with a watermark ; MS in good condition; mended.
• Origin: Probably from XVIIth century.
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه نستعين حمدا لله تعالى اولا وثانيا ... وبعد فان العبد المتوسل الى الله تعالى بالقوى الذريعة عبيد الله بن مسعود ... لما وفقنى الله تعالى بتاليف كتاب تنقيح الاصول اردت ان اشرح مشكلاته ...
• Colophon: تم بعون الله الرفيق

Binding note

Later type II (with flap) binding in brown leather and marbled paper. Multi-colored endbands.

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., 1639.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

Other title(s)

منهاج التنقيح

Title from lower edge of text block

• Minhāj al-Tanqīḥ[?]

OCLC

1340424552

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