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]

Scribe

• Ladrāwī, ʻAbd al-Karīm ibn Muḥammad, active 14th century? [Browse]

Related name

• لدراوي، عبد الكريم بن محمد، active 14th century? [Browse]
• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 839H [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Headbands [Browse]
• Autographs [Browse]
• Stamps [Browse]

Related work(s)

• Qudūrī, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad, 972 or 973-1037. Mukhtaṣar al-Qudūrī. [Browse]
• قدوري، احمد بن محمد، 972 or 973-1037. مختصر القدوري. [Browse]
• Nasafī, ʻUmar ibn Muḥammad, 1068?-1142. Manẓūmah fī al-khilāfiyāt. [Browse]
• نسفي، عمر بن محمد، 1068?-1142. منظومة في الخلافيات. [Browse]

Summary note

A Hanafite treatise on jurisprudence based on the Mukhtaṣar by al-Qudūrī (d. 428/1037) and the Manẓūmah by al-Nasafī (d. 537/1142)

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from lower edge of text block.
• Heavily annotated throughout with marginal and interlinear notes and glosses. Lines of verse, extracts and other inscriptions on folios [ii]a-1a, 148b and 149b. Inserted notes.
• Collation: Paper ; fol. ii (later) + 150 (150 is later) ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 11-13 lines per page.
• Description: Rubricated ; some vowel signs ; MS in good condition.
• Origin: Probably from the XVth century. Copied by ʻAbd al-Karīm ibn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn al-Ladrāwī (fol. 148a).
• Colophon: تمت [تم] الکتاب بعون الملك الوهاب بحمد الله تعالى وحسن توفيقه وصلّى الله على سيدنا محمد واله وصحبه اجمعين. وقع الفراغ منه عن [على] يدي العبد الضعيف عبد الکريم ابن محمد بن حسين اللدراوي غفرالله له ولوالديه واحسن اليهما واليه
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم رب تهم بالخير الحمد لله جاعل العلماء ... اما بعد فهذا کتاب يصفر للحافظ حجمه ويغرز للضابط علمه ...

Binding note

Later type II (with flap) binding in brown leather and marbled paper. Green paper pastedowns. Endbands.

Provenance

Ownership signature: Fayḍ Allāh al-Bukhārī[?] with his seal impression (fol. [ii]a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1678.
• Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), V, pp. 396-8.
• Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, III, pp. 109/10.
• Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 4569-70.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

1340424227

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