Item Summary

Commentary on the author's Tanqīḥ al-Uṣūl, on the principles of jurisprudence.

Descriptive Information

Title
التوضيح في حل غوامض التنقيح / للامام العلامة في الاصول والفروع عبيد الله بن مسعود
Transliterated Title
al-Tawḍīḥ fī ḥall ghawāmiḍ al-Tanqīḥ / lil-Imām al-ʻallāmah fī al-uṣūl wa-al-furūʻ ʻUbayd Allāh ibn Masʻūd ...
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 3800Y
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/7m01bp31d
Publisher
[1394]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1394
Extent
i, 141 leaves: paper ; 218 x 160 (145 x 105) mm. bound to 218 x 168 mm.
Provenance
Several ownership statements: two on fol. 1a, one partly erased, the other in the name of Aḥmad Nūr al-Dīn al-Istāmbulī, known as Nūḥādī Zādah ; one on fol. 3a, with impression of a seal. 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 inscription on fol. 1a, in the same hand as the ownership statement in the name of Nūḥādī Zādah.
Physical description: 21 lines per page. Written in black ink with use of red. Dark cream paper, glossy, with laid lines visible. Marginal annotations by several hand. Table of contents on fol. 1b-2a. Short texts and inscriptions on fol. 3b-4a and 134b-141b, including magic script (fol. 137a) and a poem in Ottoman Turkish (fol. 140b). Verses of poetry in praise of the book after the colophon (fol. 134a). Mainly quaternions. Foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the upper cover: "Uṣūl thānī 56". Inscription in Arabic numerals on a label pasted on the pastedown of upper cover: "Ḥ 363".
Origin: According to colophon, copy completed in Shaʻbān 796 [June 1394] by Muḥammad ibn Mūsá ibn Ismaʻīl al-Q--nī(?) (fol. 134a).
Incipit: حامدا لله تعالى اولا وثانيا ولعنان الثناء اليه ثانيا وعلى افضل رسله محمد واله مصليا وفي حليته الصلوات مجليا ومصليا وبعد فان العبد المتوسل الى الله عز وعلا 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 تحتمل السقوط وحرمة تحتمل السقوط لكنهما لم تسقطا وهما حق الله تعالى ويجب الضمان لوجود العصمة والله اعلم
Binding Note
Dark brown leather over paper pasteboards for upper and lower covers. Blind stamped central scalloped mandorla filled with a floral arabesque and outer border consisting of blind fillets.

Physical Characteristics

File Count
162

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/22349b3b-952d-40da-b3a2-990a1c79b861/manifest