Item Summary

Careful copy of a commentary of Kanz al-daqāʼiq, a treatise on Ḥanafī fiqh by ʻAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad al-Nasafī, d. 710/1310.

Descriptive Information

Title
كنز شرحي / منلا مسكين
Transliterated Title
Kanz şerhi / Munlā Miskīn.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 3609Y
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/g445cg76z
Publisher
Samarqand, [1507]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1507
Format
Manuscript
Extent
i, 166, i leaves: paper ; 265 x 175 (205 x 105) mm. bound to 274 x 185 mm.
Provenance
Ownership statement in the name of AẒMzādah Ṣāliḥ AZDshīr al-Muʼayyad, dated 22 J[umādá al-] U[lá] 1301 H. [March 20, 1884] on fol. (i)a and v(a). Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Mach, R. Yahuda, 1069
Brockelmann, C. GAL, I, 197 (3.Cmt. 6)
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from inscription on fol. (i)a.
Physical description: 31 lines per page. Written in small naskh with elements of nastaʻlīq ibn black ink with use of red. European paper; glossy. Table of contents dated Rabīʻ al-Ākhar 1099 [Feb.-March 1688] on fol. (i)b-(iii)b. Poem in Ottoman Turkish on fol. 160b. Catchword on the verso of each leaf. Modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals (counts the five first leaves as fol. I-V). Foliation in black ink using Arabic numerals (starts with "1" on the first recto of the text).
Inscription in Arabic script in red pencil on fol. (i)a: "Raqm 413".
Origin: According to colophon, copy completed in Samarqand on Monday 18 Ramaḍān 912 [Feb. 1, 1507] (fol. 159b).
Basmallah: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه نستعين
Incipit: الحمد هو الوصف بالجميل الاختيارى سواء تعلق بالفضايل او بالفواضل واللام للجنس والمراد مطلق المسمّى
Explicit: من الطريق مسجدا ومن المسجد طريقا صح اتخذ خانوتا وسط البرازين منع عنه والحمد لله الذي بنعمته يتم الصالحات وصلّى الله على محمد وآله وصحبه قال ثم قرأة المتن بحضرة والدى وشيخى واستادى و ... مولانا محمد المسكين لا زالت سموس اقباله ساطعة لامعة الى يوم الدين آمين يا رب العالمين واعلا درجته جاز فى اعلامه عليين مقام الانبياء والمرسلين بحق محمد وآله اجمعين ما ان مدحت محمد بمقالى ولكن محدت بمقالتى محمد بقاء الدهر التمام باكيف اهله وهذا دعاء ... من الكتب المعتبرة المتداولة الموثوق بها
Binding Note
Modern library binding in blue cloth over cardboards.

Discovery Information

Subject
Islamic law—15th century
Hanafites—15th century
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Nasafī, ʻAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad -1310—Kanz al-daqāʼiq—Commentaries—15th century

Physical Characteristics

File Count
169

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/03b2110a-2f8a-4ee5-a846-4692b0af7b1d/manifest