Item Summary

Reworking and explanation of al-Jāmiʻ al-ṣaghīr by al-Shaybānī, a work on Ḥanafī fiqh.

Descriptive Information

Title
كتاب الجامع الصغير
Transliterated Title
Kitāb al-Jāmiʻ al-ṣaghīr.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 3617Y
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/k643b3792
Publisher
[1360]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1360
Format
Manuscript
Extent
i, 105, i leaves: paper ; 270 x 183 (145 x 120) mm. bound to 269 x 190 mm.
Provenance
Waqf seal in the name of al-wazīr Aḥmad Pāshā Ibn Sulaymān ... (circular, 280 mm.) on fol. 1a. The same name, reading Aḥmad Ibn marḥūm Sulaymān Pāshā mutaṣarrif Sulaymānīyah, appears in an ownership statement with seal dated 1257 H. on fol. 105a. Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Mach, R. Yahuda, 976
Brockelmann, C. GAL, I, 172 (3/IV. cmt.2) ; SI
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from inscription on fol. 1a. The name of the author appears in the beginning of the text as Ḥusām al-Dīn ʻUmar ibn ʻAbd al-ʻAzīz al-Bukhārī (fol. 1b).
Physical description: 21 lines per page. Written in medium small naskh in black ink. Vocalization apparently by a later hand. Dark cream paper, glossy, with laid and chain lines visible. Marginal annotations. Several inscriptions and short texts by several hands on fol. 1a and 105b. Title on tail of text block. Pastedowns and fly-leaves of strong European paper with watermark, with one side painted in dark yellow.
Inscription in Arabic script in red pencil on fol. (i)a: "Raqm s 49".
Origin: According to colophon, copy completed on 10 Ramaḍān 761 [July 25, 1360] (fol. 105a).
Incipit: الحمد لله رب العالمين والصلوة على رسوله محمد وآله اجمعين قال الشيخ الامام الاجل حسام الدين عمر بن عبد العزيز البخارى نور الله مضجعه اما بعد فانّ مشايخنا رحمهم الله كانوا يعظمون هذا الكتاب تعظيما ويقدمونه على ساير الكتب
Explicit: لان المقصود ههنا لا يحصل ببعضهم فيصير من فروض الاعيان تمت بحمد الله وحسن توفيقه هذا الكتاب
Binding Note
Red leather over paper pasteboards for upper and lower covers. The covers are blind-tooled with a central mandorla with pendants on the vertical axis linked to the outer border by a vertical and and horizontal fillet. Outer border consists of a running pattern of s-shaped stamps.

Discovery Information

Subject
Islamic law—History—12th century—Sources
Hanafites—History—12th century—Sources
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Shaybānī, Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan approximately 750-804 or 805—Jāmiʻ al-ṣaghīr fī al-fiqh Abridgment

Physical Characteristics

File Count
113

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/e939cd40-6bb4-424a-b13c-46c254dcb3f1/manifest