Item Summary

Neat copy of a commentary on the author's Tanqīḥ al-Uṣūl, on the principles of jurisprudence.

Descriptive Information

Title
التوضيح في حل غوامض التنقيح
Transliterated Title
al-Tawḍīḥ fī ḥall ghawāmiḍ al-Tanqīḥ.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 3453Y
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/f4752k356
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1748
Extent
188 leaves: paper ; 215 x 143 (154 x 70) mm. bound to 215 x 155 mm.
Provenance
Impression of a seal on fol.Ea. Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Mach, R. Yahuda, 917
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from preamble of text (fol. 1a, l. 7).
Physical description: 23 lines per page. Written in medium small naskh in black ink with use of red to overline the commented text and for entries. The text is framed within a single line in red ink. European paper with watermark. Table of contents in a grid in red ink on fol. Bb-Da. Foliation in black ink using Arabic numerals (starts with "1" on the sixth leaf). Modern foliation in pencil (counting the first five leaves as fol A-E; this record follows this latter foliation).
Collation: Paper, fol. 188 ; 1⁴ 2-18¹⁰ 19¹⁴ ; the last word of each verso is repeated on the next recto.
Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the upper cover: "Uṣūl 71". Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the pastedown of the upper cover: "657/2 Ḥ".
Origin: According to colophon, copy completed in 1161 H. [1748] by Ḥusayn ibn ʻUmar ibn Ibrāhīm al-Dabbāghī al-mansūb bi-On īkī Dīwānī, in Qusṭanṭinīyah, in the madrasat al-sulṭān Muḥammad Khān (fol. 182a).
Copyist: Ḥusayn ibn ʻUmar ibn Ibrāhīm al-Dabbāghī.
Incipit: حامدا لله تعالى اولا وثانيا ولعنان الثناء اليه ثانيا وعلى افضل رسله واله مصليا وفي حليته الصلوات مجليا ومصليا وبعد فان العبد المتوسل الى الله تعالى باقوى الذريعة عبيد الله بن مسعود بن تاج الشريعة سعد جدّه وانجح جده يقول لما وفقنى الله تعالى بتاليف تنقيح الاصول اردت ان اشرح مشكلاته وافتح مغلقاته معرضا عن شرح المواضع
Explicit: حرمة لا يحتمل السقوط وحرمة يحتمل السقوط لكنهما لم تسقطا وهما حق الله تع م ويجب الضمان لوجود العصمة والله ولى العصمة والتوفيق
Binding Note
Quarter bound with flap in yellow paper and brown leather. Paper pastedowns. Wear.

Physical Characteristics

File Count
193

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/0ef72722-5b6d-4b67-b07b-ce843d863dad/manifest