Item Summary

A work on Hanafite religious duties, followed by a commentary on al-Samarqandī's treatise on prayer.

Descriptive Information

Title
كتاب المقدمة الغزنوي ... [الخ.]
Transliterated Title
Kitāb al-Muqaddimah al-Ghaznawī ... [etc.]
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 1059H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dc08613121v
Publisher
[15th century]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1400-1499
Format
Manuscript
Extent
136 leaves : paper ; 166 x 132 (130 x 73-92) mm bound to 165 x 135 mm.
Provenance
Ownership signature: Isḥaq Jatānīʹzādah? (fol. 2a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1894, 1890.
Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 1883/4.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Contents
1. fol. 1a-66a: Kitāb al-Muqaddimah al-Ghaznawī. A compendium of Muslim duties according to the Hanafite school.
2. fol. 66b: [Prayer]
3. fol. 67a-134a: Sharḥ al-Muqaddimah [fī] al-ṣalāh. A commentary on al-Muqaddimah fī al-ṣalāh, a treatise on prayer and the other religious performances that go with it, by Abū al-Layth al-Samarqandī.
4. fol. 134b-136a: [Fawāʼid]. Tradition about Ibn ʻAbbās and other inscriptions in Arabic and Persian.
Notes
Ms. composite codex.
Title from title page of first work (fol. 1a).
Occasional marginal note. Small illustration on title page. Calligraphy in the margin of fol. 11a.
Collation: Paper ; fol. 136 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 11-13 lines per page ; partially frame-ruled in red.
Description: Rubricated ; vowel signs ; some paper of the first work lightly tinted red ; MS in fair condition.
Origin: [Sharḥ al-Muqaddimah] Copied 1 Rabīʻ Awwal 853 by Maḥmūd ibn Mūsá ibn Junayd al-Ruhāwī (fol. 134a).
Incipit: [المقدمة] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم ... اعلم وفقکم الله وايانا-- [شرح المقدمة] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه نستعين الحمد لله الذي نزل احسن الحديث هدي للمتقين ... قال الشيخ الامام الفقيه الزاهد ابو الليث ... الحمد في اللغة له اربع معان ...
Colophon: [المقدمة] وان لم يقيد الثانية بسجدة قطعها ودخل مع الامام وان قيدها اتمها ولا يدخل مع الامام والله اعلم-- [شرح المقدمة] کتبه بتاريخه في اول شهر ربيع اول سنة ثلثة وخمسين وثمانية مائة کتبه محمود بن موسى بن جنيد الرهاوي غفر الله له ولوالديه ولمعلمه ولاسداده ولجميع المسلمين والمسلمات والمؤمنين والمؤمنات من مشارق الارض الى مغاربها کافة وعامة برحمتك يا ارحم الراحمين
Binding Note
Later type II (with flap) binding in dark brown leather. Blind-stamped mandorla with pendants and blind-tooled edging on cover. Binding in poor condition; mended. Flap and upper cover missing.

Discovery Information

Subject
Islamic law—Early works to 1800
Hanafites—Early works to 1800
Abū al-Layth al-Samarqandī, Naṣr ibn Muḥammad -983?—Muqaddimah fī al-ṣalāh
Prayer—Islam—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Blind tooled bindings
Colored papers

Physical Characteristics

File Count
278

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/b54589c0-cf43-43de-b93c-fdc1048457fb/manifest