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Subject(s)

• Hüsrev Molla -1480—Mirʼāt al-uṣūl [Browse]
• 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

• Ṭarabzūnī, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad, active 17th century [Browse]

Related name

• طربزوني، احمد بن محمد، active 17th century [Browse]
• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 311L [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Watermarks [Browse]
• Headbands [Browse]

Summary note

A gloss on Mirʼāt al-uṣūl, a commentary by Muḥammad ibn Farāmurz ibn ʻAlī Mullā Khusraw on his own work on the principles of jurisprudence, Mirqāt al-wuṣūl fī ʻilm al-uṣūl.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title supplied by cataloger.
• Label on upper cover: "M. KE No. 171". Inscriptions (fol. [i]a).
• Collation: Paper ; fol. 160 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 21 lines per page.
• Description: Rubricated ; watermarks (three crescents, roman-alphabet letters "VDS") ; MS in good condition.
• Origin: According to colophon copy completed Shaʻbān 1104 by Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad Ṭarabzūnī (fol. 159b).
• Incipit: وبه بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله دلّ بلامي الملك والجنس على اختصاص المحامد كلها تحقيقا واختير اسم الذات ...
• Colophon: کتبه الفقير احمد ابن محمد طربزوني غفرالله ذنوبه ولوالديه

Binding note

Later binding in red leather and marbled paper. Yellow paper pastedowns. Endbands. Appears to be a type II binding with the flap removed. Front cover detached.

Provenance

Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1904.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1650.
• Ḥājjī Khalāfah, V, p. 498.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

1340422261

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