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Subject(s)

• Nasafī, ʻAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad -1310—Kanz al-daqāʼiq [Browse]
• 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

• ʻAbd al-Salāmī, Niẓām al-Dīn ibn Muḥammad, active 17th century [Browse]

Related name

• عبد السلامي، نظام الدين بن محمد، active 17th century [Browse]
• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 246L [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Blind tooled bindings [Browse]
• Watermarks [Browse]

Summary note

A commentary on Kanz al-daqāʼiq.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from preface (fol. 5b).
• Marginal notes. Label upside-down on upper cover: "K.S 36". Inscriptions and stamps in purple ink (fol. 1a, lower pastedown). Table of contents (fol. 1b-5a).
• Collation: Paper ; fol. 282 + ii ; catchwords ; foliation in ink using Hindu-Arabic numerals ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 24 lines per page.
• Description: Text in red, commentary in black ; watermarks ("3 lvne" three crescents with roman-alphabet countermark initials "AB[?]" with trefoil) ; MS in good condition.
• Origin: According to colophon copy completed Tuesday 25 Shawwāl 1080 by Niẓām al-Dīn ibn Muḥammad ʻAbd al-Salāmī (fol. 281b).
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله والصلوة على رسوله ... وبعد فهذا شرح لکنز الدقائق کافيا لحل الفاطه ...
• Colophon: على يد الفقيرالحقير نظام الدين بن محمد عبد السلامي غفرالله له ولوالديه ولجميع المؤمنين والمسلمين في کل حين وآن ولله الحمد والمنة. تم

Binding note

Later type III (without flap) binding in red leather. Blind-stamped mandorla with pendants. Cover boards possibly re-used as spine is lighter red leather and boards are edged with light brown leather.

Provenance

Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1904.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1721.
• Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), V, p. 251.
• Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 4582/3.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

1340424713

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