Details

Subject(s)

• 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]

Related name

• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 851H [Browse]

Rare books genre

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

Summary note

A compendium of the Hanafite principles of jurisprudence with references to the Shāfiʻite principles.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title supplied by cataloger.
• Marginal and interlinear notes and glosses. Table of contents, calligraphy, and short inscriptions (fol. ia-1a) Bio-bibliographical paragraph on the author (fol. 40b). Inscriptions (fol. 41a-iia).
• Collation: Paper ; fol. i + i + 41 + ii ; catchwords ; foliation in ink using Hindu-Arabic numerals ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 17 lines per page.
• Description: Rubricated ; watermarks (later endpaper only: coat-of-arms with lion) ; MS in good condition; mended.
• Origin: Probably from the XVIth century.
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم ربنا آننا من لذلك رحمة ... وبعد فهذا ما قصده اضعف عباد الله يوسف بن حسين الكرماستى من تحرير اصول الحنفية ...
• Colophon: نحمد الله على اتمام ما اردته حمد الشاکرين ونصلي على افضل النبيين وعلى آله وصحبه الطيبين الطاهرين ونرجو منهم الشفاعة في يوم الدين. م

Binding note

Later type II (with flap) binding in red leather. Blind-tooled edging. Blue marbled pastedowns and flyleaves. Multi-colored endbands.

Provenance

Signatures: Shams [?]; Muṣṭafá al-Mujīb .. Manṭūrī; Khayr al-Dīn ibn Muṣṭafá; Ṭāshkubrīʹzādah Aḥmad Afandī; ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Mawlá Ḥusām al-Dīn; Aḥmad ibn ʻAbd al-Qādir Afandī .. (fol. 1a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1732.
• Hājji Khalīfah, VI, p. 426.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

1340421172

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