Item Summary

Treatise on abrogated verses.

Descriptive Information

Title
كتاب الناسخ والمنسوخ / تأليف الشيخ الامام ابي القاسم هبة الله بن سلام بن نصر بن علي
Transliterated Title
Kitāb al-Nāsikh wa-al-mansūkh / [taʼ]līf al-Shaykh al-imām Abī al-Qāsim Hibat Allāh ibn Salām ibn Naṣr ibn ʻAlī.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 637H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/8s45q884j
Publisher
[1358?]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1358
Extent
50 leaves: paper ; 175 x 130 (135 x 90) mm. bound to 178 x 130 mm.
Provenance
Acquired by Robert Garrett from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett coll., 1335
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
Incipit: اخبرنا الشيخ الفقيه الامام الرشيد جمال الفقهاء صدر الاسلام ابو الطاهر اسمعيل بن مكي بن اسمعيل بن عيسى بن عوف بن يعقوب بن محمد ... قال ... الشيخ الامام ابو القسم هبة الله بن سلامه بن نصر بن علي المفسر البغدادي رحمه الله [2أ] قال الحمد لله الذي هدانا لدينه وجعلنا من اهله وفضّلنا
Physical description: 15 lines per page. Written in medium small naskh in black ink with larger script for headings. Thick light cream paper with pulp visible. Fiber visible on the surface. The beginning of the text is partly re-written by a later hand on the original text, faded due to humidity. The title is followed by a list of the transmitters of the text on fol. 1a (see also beginning and end of text, fol. 1b-2a and 50b, with dates).
Inscription in black ink using Western numerals on the upper cover: "515" (corresponds to Brill's list, see Houtsma, M. Th. Catalogue d'une collection de manuscrits arabes et turcs, [1889], no. 637).
Collation: Paper, fol. 50 ; 1-5¹⁰ ; catchword on the verso of each leaf ; the quires are numbered using Arabic ordinals in the form "Thānī" (see fol. 11a).
Origin: Copied by Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Karakī al-Ḥanafī, on Tuesday salkh Rabīʻ al-Ākhirah 759? [April 1358] (colophon on the margin of fol. 50b, creating a pattern of two interlaced lines).
Binding Note
Modern binding consisting of purple paper with yellow and black dots pasted on paper pasteboards for upper and lower covers and red leather spine.

Physical Characteristics

File Count
104

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/562af31f-c2e7-4efe-9ac0-0568dd1cd2b2/manifest