Details

Subject(s)

• Islamic law—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. 833H [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Blind tooled bindings [Browse]
• Headbands [Browse]
• Autographs [Browse]

Summary note

A compendium of Ḥanafite law. Its popularity gained for it the name al-Kitāb fī al-madhhab.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from title page (fol. 2a).
• A few marginal notes. Short extracts and notes on folios 1a, 2a, 150a-b and 152a. Title page includes biographical information about the author. Ten line poem captioned "shiʻr jamīl" on folio 157a. The author's surname is written on the lower edge of the text block.
• Collation: Paper ; fol. 152 ; catchwords ; foliation in ink using Hindu-Arabic numerals ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 13 lines per page.
• Description: Rubricated ; full vowel signs ; MS in good condition.
• Origin: According to colophon copy completed 958 by Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad (fol. 149b).
• Colophon: تمت [تم] الکتاب بعون الله الملك الوهاب وحسن توفيقه وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد وآله اجمعين الطيبين الطاهرين وسلم تسليما کثيرا کثيرًا على يد [ﺍﻟ]ﻌﺒﺪ الضعيف المذنب المحتاج الى رحمة الله تعالى محمد بن علي بن محمد غفرالله له ولوالديه واحسن اليهما واليه امين يا رب العالمين بحرمة سيد الاولين والاخرين برحمتك يا ارحم الراحمين والحمد لله رب العالمين تاريخ سنة ثمان وخمسين وتسعمائة. تم
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه نستعين الحمد لله رب العالمين والعاقبة للمتقين ... وبعد قال الشيخ الامام ابو الحسين بن احمد بن محمد بن جعفر البغدادي المعروف بالقدوري ... کتاب الطهارة قال الله تعالى يا ايها الذين آمنوا ...

Binding note

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

Provenance

Signatures of al-Ḥajj Ismāʻīl and Sayyidī Muḥammad ibn [...] (fol. 2a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1674.
• Ibn Khallikān, Wafayāt (1299 AH), I, p. 37.
• Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), V, pp. 451/2.
• Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 4451/2.
• Pertsch, Die orientalischen handschriften der Herzoglichen bibliothek zu Gotha, 994/5.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

Other title(s)

• Kitāb al-Qudūrī
• كتاب القدوري

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