Item Summary

A commentary on Jamʻ al-jawāmiʻ fī uṣūl al-fiqh, a Shāfiʻite treatise on the principles of jurisprudence by Tāj al-Dīn al-Subkī.

Descriptive Information

Title
كتاب [بدر الطا]لع في حل جمع الجوامع / تأليف جلال الدين ابي عبد الله محمد بن محمد المحلي.
Transliterated Title
Kitāb [badr al-ṭā]liʻ fī ḥall Jamʻ al-jawāmiʻ / taʼlīf Jalāl al-Dīn Abī ʻAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Maḥallī.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 816H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcsq87c672h
Publisher
Miṣr, [26] Jumādá al-Akhirah 1193 [July 11, 1779]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1779
Format
Manuscript
Extent
361 leaves : paper ; 228 x 167 (145 x 80) mm.
Provenance
Ownership signatures: Purchased from Muḥammad al-Muʻṭī; Aḥmad ibn Ḥajjī ʻAbd al-... Jāwī; ...Aḥmad al-Qiyānī? dated 1221; Ṣāliḥ ibn ʻUmar al-Qaṭṭāwī al-Yamanī (fol. 1a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, A. D. 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1811.
Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), II, p. 610.
Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, II, pp. 250/1.
Rieu, Supplement of the catalogue of the Arabic Mss, 265¹.
Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 4403.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
Marginal and interlinear notes and glosses. Fawāʼid and general inscriptions on title page and preceding folio. Title also appears on slipcover label.
Collation: Paper ; fol. i + 361 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 17 lines per page.
Description: Text in red and commentary in black ; watermarks (three crescents, shield with roman-alphabet letters "GF", other unidentified) ; MS in fair condition, worm-eaten.
Origin: According to colophon copy completed Sunday [26] Jumādá al-Akhirah 1193 in Cairo by ʻUmar Aḥmad al-Jamal (fol. 361a).
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وفيه نستعين الحمد لله علي افضاله والصلاة ... هذا ما اشتدت اليه حاجة المتفهمين لجمع الجوامع من شرح بحل الفاظه ...
Colophon: وکان الفراغ من کتابة هذه النسخة المبارکة على يد کاتبها لنفسه ولمن شاء الله من بعده کثير الزلل عمر احمد الجمل يوم الاحد المبارك لاربع بقين من جمادى الاخرة سنة 1193 وذلك بمصر بوکالة الزيت الصغرى بخط الفحامين قبيل الظهر وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد واله وصحبه وسلم
Binding Note
Unbound. In slipcover (230 x 170 mm) of red leather and black and red marbled paper.

Discovery Information

Subject
Subkī, Tāj al-Dīn ʻAbd al-Wahhāb ibn ʻAlī approximately 1327-1370—Jamʻ al-jawāmiʻ fī al-uṣūl
Islamic law—Interpretation and construction—Early works to 1800
Shafiites—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Autographs
Watermarks

Physical Characteristics

File Count
735

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/fbf0a1c1-f209-4f15-99c5-3e5b5848cfde/manifest