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Subject(s)

• Khaṭīb al-Tamartāshī, Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd Allāh 1532 or 1533-1595 or 1596—Tanwīr al-abṣār [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

• ʻAnbūsī, ʻAbd al-Muḥsin ibn ʻAbd al-Ghanī, active 17th century [Browse]

Related name

• عنبوسي، عبد المحسن بن عبد الغني، active 17th century [Browse]
• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 856Hq [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Gold tooled bindings [Browse]
• Leather doublures [Browse]
• Autographs [Browse]
• Watermarks (Paper) [Browse]
• Colored papers (Paper) [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• illuminated manuscripts [Browse]
• headpieces (layout features) [Browse]

Summary note

A commentary on Tanwīr al-abṣār wa-jāmiʻ al-biḥār.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from title page (fol. 7a).
• A few marginal notes and glosses. Fatwá (fol. 1b). Table of contents (fol. 2b-4a).
• Collation: Paper ; fol. 555 + ii ; quires signed in red: 2-53 (last three quires unsigned) ; catchwords ; foliation in ink using Hindu-Arabic numerals ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 41 lines per page ; frame-ruled in red.
• Description: Text in red and commentary in black ; headings in red or green ; some paper lightly tinted red ; watermarks (fol. 1-6: three crescent, crown-star-crescent; main text: pot, three hats?, roman-alphabet initials "GMZ"? with trefoil, other unidentified); MS in good condition.
• Decoration: Simple illuminated headpiece of gold and black (fol. 7b). Opening spread frame-ruled in gold and black (fol. 7b-8a).
• Origin: According to colophon copy completed Sunday 18 Rajab 1095 by ʻAbd al-Muḥsin ibn ʻAbd al-Ghanī al-ʻAnbūsī (fol. 555b).
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه نستعين ان اجدر ما افتتحت به الکتب والدفاتر ... اما بعد فيقول العبد الغريق في بحار الخطا القاصر عن ان يمد فى ساحل هذا المحر الخطا ...
• Colophon: وکان الفراغ من کتابة هذا الشرح المبارك بحمد الله وعونه وحسن توفيقه اواخر نهار الاحد المبارك ثامن عشر شهر رجب الفرد الحرام الذي هو من شهور سنة خمس وتسعين والف احسن الله ختامها بخير امين على يد الفقير الحقير المعترف بالذنب والتقصير عبد المحسن بن الغني العنبوسي غفرالله له ولوالديه ولمن کتب برسمه ولجميع المسلمين والمسلمات والمؤمنين والمؤمنات امين امين امين والحمد لله رب العالمين تم تم تم

Binding note

Later type II (with flap) binding in red leather. Gold-stamped mandorla with pendants and cornerpieces and decorative gold-tooled edging on covers. Similar decoration on flap. Gold-tooled decoration on spine and flap fore-edge. Dark brown leather doublures with small gold-tooled central design and edging. Not currently sewn.

Provenance

Ownership signatures: Muṣṭafá ibn Muḥammad al-Usṭuwānī al-Ḥanafī, Imām of Jāmiʻ al-Umawī in Damascus, dated 1095; Ibrāhīm ibn Muṣṭafá al-Usṭuwānī dated 1126 (fol. 7a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1757.
• Khulāṣat al-Athar, IV, p. 19.
• Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, III, p. 138.
• Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 4622.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

1430768448

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