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كتاب القواعد في نظم العقايد / تأليف قاسم بن عبد الله الحنفي.
Kitāb al-Qawāʻid fī naẓm al-ʻaqāyid / taʼlīf Qāsim ibn ʻAbd Allāh al-Ḥanafī.
1400-1499
Item Summary
A short metrical treatise embodying the Muslim articles of faith.
Descriptive Information
- Title
- كتاب القواعد في نظم العقايد / تأليف قاسم بن عبد الله الحنفي.
- Transliterated Title
- Kitāb al-Qawāʻid fī naẓm al-ʻaqāyid / taʼlīf Qāsim ibn ʻAbd Allāh al-Ḥanafī.
- Call Number
- Oversize Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 996Hq
- Identifier
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dc6395wm16z
- Publisher
- [15th century?]
- Language
- Arabic
- Date Created
- 1400-1499
- Format
- Manuscript
- Extent
- 9 leaves : paper ; 250 x 170 (180 x 110) mm bound to 249 x 170 mm.
- Provenance
- Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
- Source Acquisition
- Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
- References
- Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1561.
- Rights Statement
- Copyright Not Evaluated
- Notes
- Ms. codex.
- Title from title page (fol. 1a).
- Contains Kitāb Waṣīyat al-Imām al-Aʻẓam Abī Ḥanīfah, the dying exhortations of Abū Ḥanīfah, and a note on the finality of Islam by Ḥamīd al-Dīn al-Ḍarīr [al-Rāmushī] (fol. 7b-9b). The main work was composed in 829 [1426]. Title page lists other titles not present in the current volume.
- Collation: Paper ; fol. 9 ; collation mark (fol. 7a) ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
- Layout: 19 lines per page in two columns
- Description: MS in good condition. Rare.
- Origin: Probably from XVth century.
- Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم * تضوع طيب المسك من عرف قطعتي * كضيبه روض عطرها فايح النشر ...
- Colophon: تمت النسخة بحمد الله تعالى وعونه وحسن توفيقه.م
- Binding Note
- Later half-bound type III (without flap) binding in red fabric and red paper with block-pressed design.
Discovery Information
Physical Characteristics
- File Count
- 26
Institutional Information
- Collection
- Princeton’s Holdings of the al-Madani Library
- Manuscripts of the Islamic World
- IIIF Manifest URL
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https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/dc3890a9-088a-4df1-b3e7-f4e40f723f9a/manifest





























