Item Summary

Treatise on Ḥanafī law, with important glosses and commentaries, in particular, according to the title, the commentary by [Yaʻqūb ibn ʻAlī al-Rūmī] ʻAlīʹzādah [al-Banbānī] (d. 931/1524).

Descriptive Information

Title
كتاب شرعة الاسلام مع سيد علي زاده
Transliterated Title
Kitāb Shirʻat al-Islām maʻa Sayyid ʻAlīʹzādah.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 5265Y
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/gf06g5257
Publisher
[1545]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1545
Extent
ii, 81, i leaves: paper ; 177 x 130 (108 x 70) mm. bound to 180 x 145 mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Mach, R. Yahuda, 1986
Brockelmann, C. GAL, I, 375 (19/1)
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from fol. (iii)a.
17 lines per page. Written in small nastaʻlīq in black ink with use of red. Light cream paper with laid lines visible. Table of contents on fol. (i)b-ii(a). Leaves with glosses and commentaries bound with or placed between the original fol. (see between fol. 25 and 26). These leaves are omitted by the modern foliation using Western numerals (counts fol. 1 as fol. iii) and by the foliation using Arabic numerals. Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the upper cover: "Taṣawwuf tā 107". Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the pastedown of the upper cover: "Ḥāʼ 876".
Copy completed on Saturday 20 Ṣafar 952 (colophon, fol. 78b).
Incipit: الحمد لله الذي دلّنا على معرفته بالشواهد والاعلام ... وبعد فهذه عقود منظومة من سنن سيّد المرسلين
Explicit: ومن السنة ان لا يذكر ميتا من المسلمين الّا بخير ... وقال صلعم لا تسبّوا الاموات فتؤذوا به الاحياء والحمد للّه ربّ العالمين والصلوة والسلام على رسوله خير البرية محمد واله الط[---؟] الطاهرين تم
Binding Note
Brown leather over paper pasteboards for upper and lower covers and envelope flap. Upper and lower covers have a similar blind stamped central mandorla and an outer frame made of fillets. Similar frame on the envelope flap. Yellow paper pastedowns.

Physical Characteristics

File Count
115

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/3f6e8b19-d007-42ae-a464-bf2e6f4a6ffc/manifest