Descriptive Information

Title

الجلد الاول [الثاني] من شرح مجمع البحرين / للعلامة عبد اللطيف بن فرشتا

Transliterated Title

al-Jild al-awwal [al-thānī] min Sharḥ Majmaʻ al-Baḥrayn / lil-ʻallāmah ʻAbd al-Laṭīf ibn Firishtā.

Call Number

Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 3674Y

Identifier

http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/cr56n361g

Publisher

Karahisar ...?, [ 1444]

Language

Arabic

Date Created

1444

Extent

2 v. (254 + 168, i leaves): paper ; 265 x 183 (200 x 120) and 270 x 183 (210 x 125) mm.

Provenance

Several ownership statements, some obliterated, on vol. 1, fol. 1a, one in the name of Muḥammad Darwīsh [---] Aḥmad? al-Malīḥī al-Balāṭunusī, dated 1148 H. [1735 or 6], with mention of a price. Several ownership statements and seals, some obliterated, on vol. 2, fol. 1a, 2a, in the name of ... al-Kurdī, dated Ramaḍān 1046 [Jan.-Feb. 1637] ; the same Muḥammad Darwīsh al-Malīḥī al-Balāṭunusī al-Ḥanafī, dated 1158 H. [1745 or 6]. Reading statement on vol. 2, fol. 168a, stating that this volume was read in 991 H. [1583 or 4] in front of Shaykh Muḥammad al-Baghdādī, mudarris in the Jāmiʻ Darwīsh Bāshā in Damascus. Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.

Source Acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

Mach, R. Yahuda, 1057

Brockelmann, C. GAL, I, 383 (49/1. Cmtre c) ; SI

Rights Statement

No Known Copyright

Contents

1. Vol. 1 : Kitāb al-Ṭahārah - Kitāb al-Ṣulḥ.

2. Vol. 2 : Kitāb al-Waqf - Kitāb al-Waṣāyā.

Notes

Ms. codex.

Title from vol. 1, fol. 1a (later hand).

Physical description: Vol. 1 : 31 lines per page. Written in medium small naskh in black ink with use of red for the commented text. Light cream paper with pulp and a few chain lines visible. Fol. 1, 7-10, 92-97, 195-210, 238, 242-243, 248-249, 251-254 are later replacements on glazed European paper with watermark. Title on tail of text block (illegible). Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the upper margin of fol. 2a: "Ḥāʼ 1100".

Vol. 2 : 29 lines per page. Written in medium small naskh with elements of taʻlīq in black ink with use of red to overline the commented text. Cream paper with pulp, laid and chain lines visible. Table of contents on fol. 1b. Short excerpt from Sharḥ al-Jāmiʻ al-ṣaghīr li-Qāḍī Khān on fol. 1a. Excerpts from Majmaʻ al-Fatāwá and other texts on fol. 168b. Title on tail of text block (illegible).

Origin: Copy of vol. 2 completed on 7 Muḥarram 848 [April 26, 1444] in the Madrasat of the town (qaṣbah) of Karahisar Demirli(?), by Ibrāhīm ibn Sulaymān (colophon, fol. 168a, followed by verses of poetry in Persian).

Incipit vol. 1 (later replacement) : يا من لا يحوط كمالكماله نطاق وصف ... وبعد فيقول الضعيف ... عبد اللطيف بن عبد العزيز بن امين الدين ... ان بعض اخوانى وخلص خلانى فى اثنا الصحابة

Explicit vol. 1 (later replacement) : لان التجارة تنفق في بعض الاحيان فقدر بشهر وان كان محترفا يمسك قوت يومه والله سبحانه وتعالى اعلم بالصواب واليه المرجع والماب ويليه فى الجزء الثاني كتاب الوقف

Incipit vol. 2 : كتاب الوقف وهو فى اللغة الحبس وفى الشرع حبس العين

Explicit vol. 2 : كان واقفا على مصالحه واجازها مّ حملا لكلامه الى الصرف الى مصالحه تصحيحا له هذا اخر الكلام تم هذا الكتاب

Binding Note

Upper and lower covers

Discovery Information

Subject

Ibn al-Sāʻātī, Aḥmad ibn ʻAlī 1254-1294 or 1295—Majmaʻ al-baḥrayn

Islamic law—14th century

Hanafites—14th century

Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton

Physical Characteristics

File Count

434

Institutional Information

Collection

Manuscripts of the Islamic World

IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/e25f9347-f0fe-4779-88d1-985bad5a896d/manifest

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