Item Summary

A commentary on al-Fiqh al-akbar, a treatise on doctrine by Imām Abī Ḥanīfah. Followed by a treatise on allegorical metaphors, and a gloss on the first part of the commentary of Quṭb al-Dīn al-Rāzī on al-Shamsīyah.

Descriptive Information

Title
هذا كتاب ابو المنتهى لشرح الفقه الاكبر ... [الخ.]
Transliterated Title
Hādhā Kitāb Abū al-Muntahá li-sharḥ al-Fiqh al-akbar ... [etc.]
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 480H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcsx61dx86x
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1750
Extent
59 leaves : paper ; 206 x 135 (138 x 65) mm. bound to 206 x 140 mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1666, 572, 847.
Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), IV, p. 458; IV, pp. 268/9
Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, II, p. 25.
Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 1929/30, 7325.
Catalogue des manuscrits et xylographes orientaux de la Bibliothèque impériale publique de St. Pétersbourg, 90¹, 106⁹.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Contents
1. fol. 1a: [inscription]
2. fol. 1b-38a: Hādhā Kitāb Abū al-Muntahá li-sharḥ al-Fiqh al-akbar.
3. fol. 38b-46a: ʻInāyah fī taḥqīq al-istiʻārah bi-al-kināyah.
4. fol. 46a-56a: [Ḥāshiyah ʻalá dībājat sharḥ Quṭb al-Dīn]
5. fol. 56b: [Fāʼidah fī taqlīm al-aẓfār and several traditions]
6. fol. 57a: [Extract from Ḥayāt al-qulūb]
7. fol. 58a-59b: [Incomplete work in Ottoman Turkish]
Notes
Ms. composite codex.
Title from caption (fol. 1b).
Marginal and interlinear notes and glosses. Several inserts. The three main works are in the same hand. Title on lower edge of text block illegible ("Fiqh ...")
Collation: Paper ; fol. ii + 59 + iv ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 17 lines per page ; frame-ruled in red.
Description: Rubricated ; overlining in red ; folios 58-59 and the two following folios are yellow paper ; watermarks (fol. 1-58: roman-alphabet lettering; fol. 58-59: eagle with roman-alphabet letters "GFA"; three hats; pastedown: coat-of-arms in a double circle topped by a crown) ; MS in good condition.
Decoration: Simple illuminated headpieces in a gold floral design on folios 1b and 38b. Fol. 1b-2a and 38b-39a frame-ruled in gold.
Origin: [Ḥāshiyah ʻalá dībājat sharḥ Quṭb al-Dīn] Copied 1164 by Muṣṭafá ibn ʻUmar (fol. 56a).
Incipit: [شرح الفقه الاکبر] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله الذي هدانا الى طريق السنة ... اما بعد فيقول العبد الضعيف المذنب ابو المنتهى عصمه الله تعالى الكبير الكريم ... -- [العناية في تحقيق الاستعارة بالکناية] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه اما بعد الحمد لوليه على خفي لطفه وجليه والصلوة على نبيه النبي محمد واله وذويه فهذا رسالة موسومة بالعناية في تحقيق الاستعارة بالكناية ... -- [حاشية على ديباجة] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم. متوکلاً بکرمه العميم ... وبعد فيقول المحتاج الى رحمة الملك القديم برهان الدين ابن كمال الدين ...
Colophon: [شرح الفقه الاکبر] اللهم يا هادي المهتدين اهدنا الصراط المستقيم تمت [تم] الکتاب -- [العناية في تحقيق الاستعارة بالکناية] والحمد لله رب العالمين وصلى الله على نبيه محمد وآله وصحبه اجمعين -- [حاشية على ديباجة] تم ما اوردنا في صدر الشرح والله المعين والحمد لله رب العالمين
Binding Note
Type II (with flap) binding in brown leather and marbled paper. Marbled paper flyleaves.

Physical Characteristics

File Count
156

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/3ef2e903-472a-4640-ba18-90f1051d34ae/manifest