Item Summary

The first volume of a formulary treatise of legal documents.

Descriptive Information

Title
الجزؤ الاول من كتاب جواهر العقود ومعين القضاه والموقعين والشهود / تأليف شمس الدين ابي عبد الله محمد السيوطي المنهاجي الشافعي.
Transliterated Title
al-Juzʼ al-awwal min Kitāb Jawāhir al-ʻuqūd wa-muʻīn al-quḍāh wa-al-muwaqqiʻīn wa-al-shuhūd / taʼlīf Shams al-Dīn Abī ʻAbd Allāh Muḥammad al-Suyūṭī al-Minhājī al-Shāfiʻī.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 892H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcvh53x7196
Publisher
14 Rabīʻ al-Thānī 960 [April 9, 1553?]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1553
Format
Manuscript
Extent
260, (1) leaves : paper ; 183 x 140 (122 x 87) mm bound to 180 x 145 mm.
Provenance
Ownership signatures: Muḥammad ibn [..] al-Dirrī[?] al-Shāfiʻī; Muḥammad ibn al-Minqār al-Ḥanafī al-madʻū bi-Shams al-Dīn; ʻAbd al-Laṭīf ibn Karīm[?] (fol. 1a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1824.
Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), II, p. 644.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
A few marginal notes and glosses. Folio (1) following the colophon has "Tarjamat al-marḥūm qāḍī al-quḍāh al-Shāfiʻī" and a method for finding the first day of the month.
Collation: Paper ; fol. 260 + (1) ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 25 lines per page.
Description: Rubricated ; MS in fair condition; first 5 folios are defective with some loss of text; stained with dampness.
Origin: According to colophon copy completed Wednesday 14 Rabīʻ al-Thānī 960 by Aḥmad Walī al-Dīn ibn Aḥmad ibn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Hunaydī al-Mālikī al-Sāʻidī al-Khazrajī al-Anṣārī (fol. 260a).
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد واله وسلم الحمد لله الذي جعل مدارالاحکام الشرعية ...
Colophon: کمل هذا الجزء ويتلوه ان شاء الله تعالى کتاب النکاح على يد معلقه لنفسه ولمن شاء الله تعالى من بعده من نسخة سقيمة جدًا لا يعتمد عليها. الفقير احمد ولي الدين بن احمد ابن احمد بن محمد الهنيدي المالکي الساعدي الخزرجي الانصاري غفرالله له ولوالديه ومشايخه وجميع المسلمين امين امين امين في ليلة يسفر صباحها عن نهار الاربعاء رابع عشر شهرربيع الثاني من شهورسنة ستين وتسعمائة والحمد لله وحده وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد اولاً واخرًا وظاهرًا وباطنا وسلم
Binding Note
Later type II (with flap) binding in brown leather and paper. Upper cover missing.

Discovery Information

Subject
Contracts (Islamic law)—Early works to 1800
Shafiites—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Autographs

Physical Characteristics

File Count
531

Institutional Information

Collection
Princeton’s Holdings of the al-Madani Library
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/31ec62e4-8f04-4fb3-b61c-d35093daa746/manifest