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Subject(s)

• Zuhrī, ʻUmar ibn ʻUmar -1668 or 1669—Durrah al-munīfah fī fiqh Abī Ḥanīfah [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]

Related name

• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 256L [Browse]

Rare books genre

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

Summary note

A commentary on al-Durrah al-munīfah, the authorʼs own work on Ḥanafite law.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from title page (fol. 1a).
• Marginal notes. Label on upper cover: "ZK 6". Obscured inscription (fol. 1a).
• Collation: Paper ; fol. i + 265 + ii ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 19 lines per page.
• Description: Text commented upon in red or overlined in red ; watermarks (crown-star-crescent) ; MS in good condition.
• Origin: According to colophon copy completed 1101 by ʻUthmān ibn Muḥammad (fol. 265b).
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله الذي قهر العباد بكاس الموت وجعله على كافة الناس ... وبعد فاني قد استخرت الله سبحانه وتعالى في شرح مقدمتي الموقومة بالدرة المنيفة ...
• Colophon: تم الکتاب سنة 1101

Binding note

Later type II (with flap) binding in dark brown leather. Gold-stamped mandorla with pendants and blind-tooled edging on covers. Similar decoration on flap. Multi-colored endbands.

Provenance

Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1904.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1766.
• Khulāṣat al-Athar III, p. 220.
• Pertsch, Die orientalischen handschriften der Herzoglichen bibliothek zu Gotha, 1037.
• Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, III, p. 36.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

1466216192

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