تنوير الابصار.

Tanwīr al-abṣār.

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Format
Manuscript, Book
Language
Arabic
Published/​Created
[18th century?]
Description
212 leaves : paper ; 213 x 132 (148 x 58) mm bound to 211 x 135 mm.

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    Summary note
    A compendium of Ḥanafite law.
    Notes
    • Ms. codex.
    • Title from title page (fol. 1a).
    • Marginal and interlinear notes and gloss. Inscriptions (2a-3a).
    • Collation: Paper ; fol. 212 ; catchwords ; foliation in ink using Hindu-Arabic numerals ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
    • Layout: 21-22 lines per page ; ruled.
    • Description: Some paper tinted red ; watermarks (coat-of-arms; roman-alphabet lettering "Al ...azzo") ; MS in good condition.
    • Origin: Probably from the XVIIIth century.
    • Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم حمدا لمن احکم احکام الشرع الشريف واعلا مناره ... فيقول الشيخ الامام العلامة العمدة الفهامة عمدة العلماء الراسخين شيخ ... شمس الدين محمد بن المرحوم شيخ ... عبد الله بن ... شهاب الدين احمد ابن تمرتاش ...
    • Colophon: والله اعلم واحکم والحمد لله رب العالمين والصلاة والسلام على محمد واله واصحابه وذرياته الطيبين الطاهرين
    Binding note
    Later half-bound type III (without flap) binding in red leather and red and purple marbled paper. Multi-colored endbands.
    Provenance
    Ownership signature: Ilyās ibn Jurjīs al-Mawṣilī with seal impression (fol. 3a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1904.
    Source acquisition
    Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
    References
    • Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1756.
    • Khulāṣat al-Athar IV, p. 19.
    • Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, III, pp. 28/9.
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    Also available in an electronic version.
    Title from label on upper cover
    • Laws of the Mohammadan's faith
    OCLC
    1340425617
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