Item Summary

Commentary on the author's Tanqīḥ al-Uṣūl, on the principles of jurisprudence.

Descriptive Information

Title
التوضيح في حل غوامض التنقيح
Transliterated Title
al-Tawḍīḥ fī ḥall ghawāmiḍ al-Tanqīḥ.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 813H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcs1784z02b
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1349
Extent
224 leaves : paper ; 186 x 136 (120 x 95) mm bound to 186 x 145 mm.
Provenance
Ownership statement in the name of Sulaymān al-Muftīʹzādah in the town of SHMNī(?) on fol. 1a, with seal. Several ownership statements on fol. 7a, including one in the name of Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn, in Istanbul, with seal; and one in the name of Muṣṭafá ibn Aḥmad Qūtarī(?). Acquired by Robert Garrett from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett coll., 1638
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from preamble (fol. 7b, l. 12).
Ḥāshiyah on the margins and after the end of the text on fol. 223a-b. Ownership statement on fol. 1a, and a table of contents on fol. 1b-3a. Verses of poetry (3 lines) attributed to Abū Yūsuf on fol. 223b. Several inscriptions on fol. 6b-7a, including the mention of a price and ownership statements.
Layout: 17 lines per page.
Description: Overlining and abbreviations in red ; watermarks on later folios 1-5 and 224 (moon).
Origin: Date 750 added at the end of the text (fol. 222b).
Incipit: حامدا لله تعالى اولا وثانيا ولعنان الثناء اليه ثانيا وعلى افضل رسله محمد وآله مصليا وفي حليته الصلوات مجليا ومصليا وبعد فان العبد النتوسل الى الله تعالى باقوى الذريعة عبيد الله بن مسعود تاج الشريعة سعد جدّه وانجح جده يقول لما وفقنى الله تع بتاليف تنقيح الاصول اردت ان اشرح مشكلاته وافتح مغلقاته معرضا عن بعض المواضع
Explicit: حرمة لا تحتمل السقوط وحرمة تحتمل السقوط لكنها لم تسقط وهما حق الله تعالى ويجب الضمان لوجود العصمة والله اعلم بالصواب
Binding Note
Later type II (with flap) binding in dark brown leather and marbled paper. Paper pastedowns. Yellow flyleaves. Endbands.

Physical Characteristics

File Count
458

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/e154f12c-80e9-4e5e-b7de-0a04757af5e5/manifest