Item Summary

Vol. I of a commentary on al-Nubdhah al-alfīyah fī al-uṣūl al-fiqhīyah, the authorʼs own metrical treatise of a thousand verses on the principles of jurisprudence.

Descriptive Information

Title
الجزء الاول من الفوائد السنية في شرح الالفية الاصولية / شمس الدين محمد بن عبد الدائم بن موسى العسقلاني البرماوي المصري الشافعي.
Transliterated Title
al-Juzʼ al-awwal min al-fawāʼid al-sanīyah fī sharḥ al-Alfīyah al-uṣūlīyah / Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Dāʼim ibn Mūsá al-ʻAsqalānī al-Birmāwī al-Miṣrī al-Shāfiʻī.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 821H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcv405sn68h
Publisher
[not after 1523]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1400-1523
Format
Manuscript
Extent
219 leaves : paper ; 274 x 187 (200 x 130) mm.
Provenance
Obscured ownership signature dated 929 (fol. 1a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1647.
Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), VI, p. 294.
Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, II, p. 256.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
Marginal notes and glosses. On the title page is a table of contents and other inscriptions. Certificate? and other inscriptions on folio 129b.
Collation: 219 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 31 lines per page.
Description: Rubricated ; overlining and other use of red ; MS in fair condition; worm-eaten.
Origin: Probably from the XVth century. According to the colophon copied by Aḥmad ibn ʻUthmān al-Diyārbakrī al-Kurdī (fol. 219a).
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وصلي الله علي سيدنا محمد وعلي آله وصحبه وسلم قال شيخنا الشيخ الامام ... البرماوي ... اما بعد فهذا تعليق مبارك على ارجوزني المسماة بالمنرذة؟ الالفية في الاصول ...
Colophon: هذا اخرالجزء الاول من شرح الفية العلامة شمس الدين البرماوي افرغه احمد بن عثمان الديار بکري الکردي
Binding Note
Unbound.

Discovery Information

Subject
Birmāwī, Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Dāʼim 1362-1428—Nubdhah al-alfīyah fī al-uṣūl al-fiqhīyah
Islamic law—Interpretation and construction—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Autographs
Certificates

Physical Characteristics

File Count
442

Institutional Information

Collection
Princeton’s Holdings of the al-Madani Library
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/49920c2e-49b9-4da9-be0c-9f6636bf6702/manifest