Item Summary

Volume 1 of a commentary on al-Mukhtaṣar fī al-fiqh by Aḥmad Abū Jaʻfar al-Ṭaḥāwī (d. 321/933), comprising Bāb al-Ṭahārah to Bāb al-Bayʻ. This copy is water damaged.

Descriptive Information

Title
شرح مختصر مولانا ابي جعفر الطحاوي
Transliterated Title
Sharḥ Mukhtaṣar Mawlānā Abī Jaʻfar al-Ṭaḥāwī. al-Juzʻ al-awwal.
Call Number
Oversize Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 628Yq
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/v405sc991
Publisher
[ 15--?]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1500-1599
Format
Manuscript
Extent
213 leaves
Provenance
Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Mach, R. Yahuda, 984
Brockelmann, C. GAL, SI, 294 (6. Cmt.)
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a, damaged).
35 lines per page. Written in medium small naskh in black ink. Light cream glazed paper. On fol. 1a: Title; table of contents; ownership statements; waqf. Inscription in Roman script "R9" on a label pasted on the pastedown of the upper cover. Catchword on the verso of each leaf; the quires are numbered using Arabic ordinals (in the form "sābiʻ", see fol. 60a). The lower inner corner of most of the leaves is water damaged or lost, with loss of text. Foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
According to Mach, this copy dates from the 10th cent. H.
Incipit: [بسم ...] علي سيدنا محمد واله وصحبه وسلم الحمد لله رب العالمين والباقيه للمتقين(؟) ... قال ابو جعقر الطحاوي احمد بن محمد بن سلامه الازدي المعروف بال[...] واسمه احمد والازد قبيله من قبايل العرب وطحا قرية من قرى
Binding Note
Brown leather over paper pasteboards. Upper and lower covers are similarly blind tooled with a central mandorla with two pendants on the vertical axis and corner pieces. Worm eaten and damaged.

Discovery Information

Subject
Ṭaḥāwī, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad 852?-933—Mukhtaṣar
Islamic law—Interpretation and construction—11th century
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
donation inscriptions

Physical Characteristics

File Count
220

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/bf476bbd-cea6-4bcd-a2fb-eeaf9d80cdaf/manifest