Item Summary

The third volume of a work on the principles of Hanbalite law and jurisprudence. The work is also known as Kitāb al-FuṣūI.

Descriptive Information

Title
الجز الثالث من كتاب الواضح في اصول الفقه على مذهب الامام ابي عبد الله احمد بن محمد بن حنبل / تصنيف ابي الوفا علي بن عقيل البغدادي.
Transliterated Title
al-Juzʼ al-thālith min Kitāb al-Wāḍiḥ fī uṣūl al-fiqh ʻalá madhhab al-Imām Abī ʻAbd Allāh Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Ḥanbal / taṣnīf Abī al-Wafā ʻAlī ibn ʻAqīl al-Baghdādī.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 906H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcs1784z21r
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1400-1799
Extent
221 leaves : paper ; 256 x 170 (195 x 130) mm bound to 247 x 165 mm.
Provenance
Ownership signatures: [illegible] (fol. 2a); ʻAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad .. al-Kumayyil[?] (fol. 221b). Study note (fol. 221b). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1842.
Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), VI, p. 415.
Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, III, p. 295.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 2a).
A few marginal notes and glosses. On the title page and the folio before is a table of contents. Title on lower edge of text block illegible.
Collation: Paper ; fol. 221 ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 19 lines per page.
Description: Some vowel signs ; MS in fair condition; defective and stained with dampness. Last 3-4 lines of text on some pages faded and occasionally illegible.
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم. فصول الاحبار وما فيها من الخلاف فصل الحبر صيعه ولا يقول للحبر صيعه على ما قدمت في الامر ...
Colophon: والله اعلم وصلواته على سيدنا محمد النبي واله وسلم تسليما والحمد لله رب العالمين
Binding Note
Later? type III (without flap) binding in dark brown leather. Blind-stamped central design of circles and dots and blind-tooled edging. Pink paper pastedowns and flyleaves. Cover in poor condition.

Physical Characteristics

File Count
450

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/36bcfa7c-eafc-4b44-a202-90d6f8de3574/manifest