كتاب الذخاير الاشرفية في الالغاز الحنفية / لابن الشحنة.

Kitāb al-Dhakhāyir al-Ashrafīyah fī al-alghāz al-Ḥanafīyah / li-Ibn al-Shiḥnah.

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Uniform title
Format
Manuscript, Book
Language
Arabic
Published/​Created
23 Ṣafar 918 [20 May 1512]
Description
182 leaves : paper ; 273 x 185 (190 x 120) mm bound to 271 x 180 mm.

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Scribe
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Rare books genre
Summary note
A work, in the the form of question and answer, on obscure cases in Hanafite law.
Notes
  • Ms. codex.
  • Title from title page (fol. 1a).
  • A few marginal notes. On the title page is a table of contents.
  • Collation: Paper ; fol. 182 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
  • Layout: 13 lines per page.
  • Description: Rubricated ; some vowel signs ; MS in good condition.
  • Origin: According to colophon copy completed 23 Ṣafar 918 by ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad al Manẓarāwi (fol. 181b).
  • Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم توكلت علي الله الحمد لله الذي کشف بالعلماء کل مشکل و ملغز واوضح بالفهماء ... وبعد فان الفقه عماد الدين وحبله المتين المصعد الي افق الحق المبين ...
  • Colophon: وکان الفراغ من نسخه في الثالث والعشرين من صفرالخير سنة ثماني عشرة وتسع مائة احسن الله عاقبتها وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد واله وصحبه وسلم. على يد فقير رحمة ربه علي بن محمد المنظراوي غفرالله له ولوالديه ولجميع المسلمين امين والحمد لله رب العالمين
Binding note
Later? type II (with flap) binding in red leather. Blind-stamped mandorla with pendants, corner and edge designs and blind-tooled decorative edging on covers. Similar decoration on flap. Blue marbled pastedowns. Cover apparently re-used as it doesn't fit the width of the pages.
Provenance
Ownership statements: Muḥammad Afandī; Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Awwal, Cairo dated Shaʻbān 928; purchase by ʻAbd al-Wahhāb from ʻAbd al-Qādir, Constantinople dated 963; purchase by Abd Allāh [?] dated 1280 (fol. 1a); ʻAbd al-Wahhāb with two impressions of his seal (fol. 181b). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
  • Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1733.
  • Ḥājji Khalīfah III, p. 325.
  • Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, III, pp. 50/1.
  • Pertsch, Die orientalischen handschriften der Herzoglichen bibliothek zu Gotha, 1031.
Other format(s)
Also available in an electronic version.
Other title(s)
  • Dhakhāyir al-Ashrafīyah fī al-alghāz al-Ḥanafīyah
  • ذخاير الاشرفية في الالغاز الحنفية
OCLC
1340424095
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