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Subject(s)

• Birmāwī, Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Dāʼim 1362-1428—Nubdhah al-alfīyah fī al-uṣūl al-fiqhīyah [Browse]
• Islamic law—Interpretation and construction—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Scribe

• Diyārbakrī, Aḥmad ibn ʻUthmān, active 15th century? [Browse]

Related name

• دياربكري، احمد بن عثمان، active 15th century? [Browse]
• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 821H [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Autographs [Browse]
• Certificates [Browse]

Summary note

Vol. I of a commentary on al-Nubdhah al-alfīyah fī al-uṣūl al-fiqhīyah, the authorʼs own metrical treatise of a thousand verses on the principles of jurisprudence.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from title page (fol. 1a).
• Marginal notes and glosses. On the title page is a table of contents and other inscriptions. Certificate? and other inscriptions on folio 129b.
• Collation: 219 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 31 lines per page.
• Description: Rubricated ; overlining and other use of red ; MS in fair condition; worm-eaten.
• Origin: Probably from the XVth century. According to the colophon copied by Aḥmad ibn ʻUthmān al-Diyārbakrī al-Kurdī (fol. 219a).
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وصلي الله علي سيدنا محمد وعلي آله وصحبه وسلم قال شيخنا الشيخ الامام ... البرماوي ... اما بعد فهذا تعليق مبارك على ارجوزني المسماة بالمنرذة؟ الالفية في الاصول ...
• Colophon: هذا اخرالجزء الاول من شرح الفية العلامة شمس الدين البرماوي افرغه احمد بن عثمان الديار بکري الکردي

Binding note

Unbound.

Provenance

Obscured ownership signature dated 929 (fol. 1a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1647.
• Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), VI, p. 294.
• Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, II, p. 256.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

1340425145

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