Item Summary

Commentary on Manār al-anwār fī uṣūl al-fiqh, a treatise on Ḥanafī uṣūl al-fiqh by al-Nasafī (d. 710/1310), with selections from al-Jawāhir al-muḍiʼah fī ṭabaqāt al-Ḥanafīyah and from other texts.

Descriptive Information

Title
الجواهر المضية في طبقات الحنفية لحافظ الحجة محيي الدين عبد القادر بن محمد بن محمد بن نصر الله القرشي الحنفي ويليه شرح الم[نار] [---] الامام الفقيه [---] عبد اللطيف [---] فرشته
Transliterated Title
al-Jawāhir al-muḍīyah fī ṭabaqāt al-Ḥanafīyah li-hāfiẓ al-ḥujjah Muḥyī al-Dīn ʻAbd al-Qādir ibn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Naṣr Allāh al-Qurashī al-Ḥanafī wa-yalīhi Sharḥ al-Ma[nār] [---] al-imām al-faqīh [---] ʻAbd al-Laṭīf [---] Firishtah.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 3714Y
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/n009w489n
Publisher
Mecca, [1444]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1444
Format
Manuscript
Extent
i, 196, i leaves: paper ; 255 x 170 mm. bound to 255 x 175 mm.
Provenance
Several ownership statements on fol. 1a. Reading statement in the name of al-faqīr Sulaymān on fol. 193b. Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Mach, R. Yahuda, 898, 4653
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Contents
1. fol. 2b-40b: al-Multaqaṭ min al-Jawāhir al-muḍiʼah fī ṭabaqāt al-Ḥanafīyah / ʻAbd al-Qādir ibn Muḥammad al-Qurashī.
Mach, R. Yahuda, no. 4653.
2. fol. 40a-193b: Sharḥ al-Manār / ʻAbd al-Laṭīf ... [Ibn] Firishtah .
Mach, R. Yahuda, no. 898.
3. fol. 193b-195a: Excerpt from al-Muḥīṭ and al-Baḥr al-ʻamīq fī manāsik al-bayt al-ʻatīq.
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from fol. 2a (partly covered by repair).
Physical description: Number of lines per page varies (from 36 to 25). Written in small naskh in black ink with use of red in Text 2. Dark cream paper, glossy, with laid lines and chain lines visible. Fol. 1 and 196 are later additions. Stained with dampness ; some worm damage ; a few loose leaves.
Inscription in Arabic script in red pencil on fol. 1a: "Raqm 78".
Origin: According to colophon, Text 2 copied by Yūsuf ibn Ibrāhīm, and completed in Mecca, on Wednesday 9 Rajab 848 [Oct. 22, 1444] (fol. 193b).
Binding Note
Red leather over paper pasteboards for upper and lower covers. Both covers have a central lozenge consisting of gilt impressions of a small circular stamp. Impressions of the same stamp in the inner corners of the border, which consists of a guilloche and fillets. Rebacked. Traces of an embossed leather doublure on fol. 195b.

Discovery Information

Subject
Hanafites—Biography—History—14th century—Sources
Islamic law—Interpretation and construction—History—14th century—Sources
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Nasafī, ʻAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad -1310—Manār al-anwār fī al-uṣūl

Physical Characteristics

File Count
202

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/1d4dee3a-98b2-41ea-987b-379a7cb71d0a/manifest