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Subject(s)

• Hüsrev Molla -1480—Mirqāt al-wuṣūl [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]

Scribe

• Ibn Darghūdʹdadah, Ḥusayn, active 17th century [Browse]

Related name

• ابن درغودددة، حسين، active 17th century [Browse]
• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 822H [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Leather doublures [Browse]
• Blind tooled bindings [Browse]
• Headbands [Browse]
• Watermarks (Paper) [Browse]

Summary note

A commentary on Mirqāt al-wuṣūl fī ʻilm al-uṣūl, the authorʼs own treatise on the principles of jurisprudence.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from caption (fol. 1b).
• Marginal and interlinear notes and glosses. Table of contents prefaced with the name Ibrāhīm Afandī (fol. 1a). After the colophon is a note of collation.
• Collation: Paper ; fol. 250 + i ; catchwords ; foliation in ink using Hindu-Arabic numerals ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 21 lines per page ; frame-ruled in red.
• Description: Text commented upon is overlined in red ; watermarks (crown-star-crescent) ; MS in good condition.
• Origin: According to colophon copy completed Tuesday last day of Dhū al-Ḥijjah 1032 by Ḥusayn ibn Darghūddadah (fol. 249b).
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله الذي کرم بني آدم بالعقل القويم ... اما بعد فان اولى ما تقترحه القرايح القوارح واعلى تجنح الى تحصيله الجوارح الجوارح ...
• Colophon: قد وقع الفراغ من تسويد هذا الکتاب بعون الله الملك الوهاب يوم الثلثاء وهو يوم [اليوم] الاخير من ذي الحجة سنة اثنتين وثلثين والف [من] الهجرة على يد اضعف العباد حسين بن درغوددده تم تم تم

Binding note

Later? type II (with flap) binding in brown leather. Blind-stamped mandorla and blind-tooled edging on covers. Similar decoration on flap. Leather doublures. Multi-colored endbands.

Provenance

Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1648.
• Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), V, pp. 480, 497/8.
• Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, II, p. 264.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

1375677836

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