Item Summary

A work in two parts discussing the differences in law among the leading jurists.

Descriptive Information

Title
كتاب المعاني البديعه في معرفة اختلاف اهل الشريعه / للعلامة الريمي اليمنى الشافعى.
Transliterated Title
Kitāb al-Maʻānī al-badīʻah fī maʻrifat ikhtilāf ahl al-sharīʻah / lil-ʻAllāmah al-Raymī al-Yamanī al-Shāfiʻī.
Call Number
Oversize Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 899Hq
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dc73666h54m
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1810
Extent
317 leaves : paper ; 320 x 220 (240-260 x 155-170) mm bound to 317 x 220 mm.
Provenance
Ownership signature: Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Saqqāf (fol. 1a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1833.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
On two folios before the title page is a table of contents.
Collation: Paper ; fol. ii (later paper) + 317 + i ; catchwords ; foliation in ink using Hindu-Arabic numerals ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 29-40 lines per page.
Description: Rubricated ; some headings in yellow ; watermarks (fol. i: horse and rider with roman-alphabet lettering "Giacomo"; fol. ii: bull with roman-alphabet lettering" Giusti"; text: three crescents, three hats, other unidentified) ; MS in good condition.
Origin: According to colophon copy completed Monday 9 Muḥarram 1225 by Yaḥyá ibn ʻAbd Allāh ... al-Ahdal[?] al-Durayhimī (fol. 317b). al-Juzʼ 1 completed 6 Rajab 1223 (fol. 104a).
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه الاعانه الحمد لله الذي رفع اقدارالعلماء وشرفها بمعاليها الذاتيه والاسميه ... اما بعد فانه لما كان خلاف العلما في الشريعة المطهره واقعاد بين الصحابة والتابعين والايمة المهتدين كان ذلك من اتساع الرحمه ...
Colophon: تم الکتاب المبارك نهارالاثنين وقت صلاة الظهر تاسع محرم الحرام سنة 1225 والحمد لله رب العالمين وکان تمامه بخط افقرعبادالله واحوحهم اليه يحيى بن عبد الله ... الدريهمى عفى [عفا] الله عنه وغفرله ولوالديه الهم [اللهم] امين امين امين
Binding Note
Contemporaneous? type II (with flap) binding in light brown leather. Color-stamped mandorla with pendants and decorative blind-tooled edging on covers. Similar decoration on flap and flap fore-edge. Not sewn.

Physical Characteristics

File Count
644

Institutional Information

Collection
Princeton’s Holdings of the al-Madani Library
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/3fa351ef-d4ef-473a-a026-89167d53b9d0/manifest