Item Summary

Collection of ordinances according to traditions, from Muslim and al-Bukhārī.

Descriptive Information

Title
العمدة في الاحكام في الحديث / جمع الشيخ الفقيه ابي محمد عبد ال[...] المقدسي.
Transliterated Title
al-ʻUmdah fī al-[aḥkām fī al-ḥadīth] / jamaʻa al-shaykh al-faqīh Abī Muḥammad ʻAbd al-[---] al-Maqdisī.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 713H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcsf268h09x
Publisher
12 Ṣafar 713 [June 8, 1313]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1313
Format
Manuscript
Extent
i, 90, i leaves: paper ; 175 x 130 (125 x 85) mm bound to 175 x 135 mm.
Provenance
Acquired by Robert Garrett from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett coll., 1377.
Brockelmann, C. GAL, I, 356 (14/2) ; SI.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page, partly wanting (fol. 2a), repeated on fol. 1b. The words between square brackets are written by a later hand on a repair.
Inscription in black ink using Western numerals on the upper cover: "340" (corresponds to Brill's list, see Houtsma, M. Th. Catalogue d'une collection de manuscrits arabes et turcs, [1889], no. 713). Inscriptions on fol. 89b.
Collation: Paper, fol. i, 90, i ; i (later added free enpaper; European paper) 1¹⁰ (fol. 1 consists of a leaf in european paper pasted on the recto of first fol. of the quire) 2-9¹⁰ ; the quires are numbered using arabic ordinals in the form "Sādisat al-ʻUmdah" (see fol. 50a) ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 13 lines per page.
Description: Written in medium large script in black ink with use of red. Cream paper with laid and chain lines and fibers visible. The outer part of the first two leaves is mended. The beginning of the text is partly written by a later hand on the repair of fol. 2. Fol. 1 consists of a later fol. pasted on the recto of an original leaf.
Origin: Copied on 12 Ṣafar 713 [June 8, 1313] by ʻAlī ibn al-Ḥājj ʻAlī ibn Aḥmad al-Shādhilī (colophon, fol. 89a).
Incipit: [الحمد لله] الواحد القهّار واشهد ان لا [اله الا الله وحده] لا شريك له رب السموات [والارضين] العزيز الغفار ... [وبعد] فان بعض اصحابى سالني اختصار
Explicit: يكن له مال غيره فباعه [--] ثمان مايه درهم ثم ارسل ثمنه اليه تم الكتاب بحمد الله وعونه
Binding Note
Later half-bound type III (without flap) binding in brown leather and grey and cream marbled paper pasted on paper pasteboards. Paper pastedown and free endpaper.

Discovery Information

Subject
Hadith—Texts—Early works to 1800
Islamic law—Interpretation and construction—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton

Physical Characteristics

File Count
192

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/e129aacf-8748-4f28-badc-4af2c74a1044/manifest