Item Summary

Defective copy of a short treatise on fiqh according to Abū Ḥanīfah.

Descriptive Information

Title
تحفة الملوك / لمحمد بن ابي بكر عبد المحسن الرازي الحنفي
Transliterated Title
Tuḥfat al-mulūk / li-Muḥammad ibn Abī Bakr ʻAbd al-Muḥsin al-Rāzī al-Ḥanafī.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 677Y
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/pk02cd35m
Publisher
[1595 or 1596]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1595
Format
Manuscript
Extent
73 leaves: paper ; 205 x 155 (122 x 61) mm. bound to 210 x 160 mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Mach, R. Yahuda, 1058
Brockelmann, C. GAL, I, 50/1 ; S1
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from inscription on fol. 1a (later hand; red ink).
Physical description: 11 lines per page. Written in black ink with use of red. European paper. The text on the original leaves is framed within a single red line (blue from fol. 52 on). Important ḥāshiyah on the margin and between the lines of the main text. Some leaves are missing (see between fol. 62 and 63). Several leaves are later replacements (see fol. 3, 10, 12). Fol. 1 and 74 are later additions. Table of contents on fol. 2b. Catchword on the verso of the original leaves. Foliation in red ink using Arabic numerals (starts with "1" on fol. 4a). Wear ; a few leaves loose.
Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the upper cover: "361 thānī. Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on pastedown of the upper cover: "1230/2 Ḥ".
Origin: According to colophon, copy completed in Rabīʻ al-Ākhar 1004 [Dec. 1595 - Jan. 1596] by Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥājjī Ḥasan (fol. 73b in the modern foliation in pencil). Inscription in Ottoman Turkish dated 92 on the margin of the end of the text.
Incipit: اما بعد الحمد لله وسلام على عباده الذين اصطفى هذا مختصر فى علم الفقه جمعته لبعض اخوانى فى الدين بقدر ما وسعه وقته واقتصرت فيه على عشرة كتب هي اهم كتب له واحقها بالتقديم
Explicit: كما قال الله تعالى ولقد وصينا الذين اوتوا الكتاب من قبلكم [73ب] واياكم ان اتقوا الله فعليكم ورجس من عمل الشيطان اى حرام ونجس من عمل الشيطان ايها الاخ بالتقوى والاستعداد اللقاء وجل ونعم العقبى تم هذا الكتاب فى يوم سه شنبه فى وقت الصبح
Binding Note
Gold-brown leather over paper pasteboards for upper and lower covers, fore-edge flap and envelope flap. Both covers have a darker leather stamped lobed central piece outlined in gold, and an outer border consisting of blind-tooled and gold-painted fillets. Similar decoration on the envelope flap.

Discovery Information

Subject
Islamic law—Early works to 1800
Islamic law—History—13th century—Sources
Hanafites—History—13th century—Sources
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton

Physical Characteristics

File Count
81

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/3b119f7c-e82e-4641-b3f4-c29abd0e6eda/manifest