Descriptive Information

Title

التلويح في كشف حقائق التنقيح

Transliterated Title

al-Talwīḥ fī kashf ḥaqāʼiq al-Tanqīḥ.

Call Number

Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 3705Y

Identifier

http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/4q77ft974

Publisher

Harāt, [ 1455]

Language

Arabic

Date Created

1455

Format

Manuscript

Extent

219 leaves: paper ; 265 x 170 (190 x 105) mm. bound to 265 x 180 mm.

Provenance

On fol. 1a: Seal reading "Muṣtafá Shawkat(?)" ; ownership statement in the name of al-Sayyid Aḥmad Nūrī, known as Nūḥādīʹzādah(?), with seal, reading "al-Sayyid Aḥmad Nūrī" ; erased statement dated 1226(?) H. Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.

Source Acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

Mach, R. Yahuda, 918

Brockelmann, C. GAL, II, 214 (I/3. cmt. b) ; SII, 300

Rights Statement

No Known Copyright

Notes

Ms. codex.

Title from preamble (fol. 2a, l. 9).

31 lines per page. Written in medium small naskh with elements of taʻlīq in black ink with use of red. Thin biscuit paper with laid lines visible. Ḥāshiyah on the margins. The first leaf consists of a later page pasted on the recto of an original folio. Water damage. Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the upper cover: "Uṣūl thānī 14". Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the pastedown of the upper cover: "857/2 ḥāʼ".

Copy completed in Harāt in Jumādá al-Thānī 859 [May-June 1455] (colophon, fol. 219a).

Incipit: الحمد لله الذي احكم بكتابه اصول الشريعة ... وبعد فان علم الاصول الجامع بين المنقول والمعقول النافع فى الوصول الى مدارك المحصول ... [2أ] ... قوله حامدا لله حامدا حال من المستكن فى متعلّق الباء اى باسم الله ابتدىء الكتاب حامدا

Explicit: على لفظ وجود العصمة عصمنا الله تع بعونه الكريم عن اتباع الهوى ووفّقنا بلطفه العميم لسلوك طريق الهدى انه ولى العصمة والتوفيق ومنه الهداية الى سواء الطريق وصلى الله على محمد سيّد الانام عليه الصلوة والسلام وعلى آله وصحبه الكرام بفضلخ وكرمه يا ذا الجلال والكرام

Binding Note

Dark brown leather over paper pasteboards for upper and lower covers. Both covers have a blind stamped mandorla with a floral motif with a scalloped border outlined in gold. Outer frame made of blind tooled and gold painted fillets and guilloche. Blue and cream marbled paper pastedowns. Rebacked.

Discovery Information

Subject

Islamic law—Interpretation and construction—14th century

Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton

Maḥbūbī, ʻUbayd Allāh ibn Masʻūd -1346 or 1347—Tanqīḥ al-uṣūl

Physical Characteristics

File Count

227

Institutional Information

Collection

Manuscripts of the Islamic World

IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/89cc5d9d-f2c5-4276-8cbf-be82abf61466/manifest

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