Descriptive Information

Title

المجلد الاول من الشرح

Transliterated Title

al-Mujallad al-awwal min al-Sharḥ.

Call Number

Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 1780Y

Identifier

http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/4t64gq79t

Publisher

[1372]

Language

Arabic

Date Created

1372

Format

Manuscript

Extent

232 leaves : paper ; 255 x 170 (180 x 115) mm. bound to 257 x 180 mm.

Provenance

Four ownership statements on fol. 2a, two in the name of ʻAbd Allāh ; one in the name of Muḥammad (with seal reading "Muḥammad") ; one in the name of Aḥmad Najīb ibn Aḥmad Ṭāhir (dated '81). Several ownership statements on fol. 3a, in the name of ʻAbd al-Raḥīm al-qāḍī bi-...? (repeated on fol. 231b) ; of ʻAbd Allāh, al-qāḍī bi-...? ; of ʻAbd Allāh ibn al-ḥājj ʻUthmān, kātib waẓifah ... Istanbul ; a long one by an earlier hand, dated al-Qāhirah, 10 Rabīʻ II 808 [Oct. 5, 1405]. Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.

Source Acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

Mach, R. Yahuda, 853

Brockelmann, C. GAL, I, 372 (4/1. Cmtre c) ; SI

Rights Statement

No Known Copyright

Notes

Ms. codex.

Title from colophon (fol. 231b).

Physical description: 19 lines per page. Written in medium large naskh in black ink. Yāʼ for alif maqṣūrah. The text is vocalized. Dark cream paper, with large regular laid lines visible. Fol. 1 and 2 are later additions (European paper). Marginal annotations (chiefly collation notes ; occasional gloss). On fol. 1a: bibliographical note on the author ; note mentioning a price. Title on tail of text block. Modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.

Chiefly quinions. Ctachword on the verso of most leaves ; the quires are numbered using Arabic ordinals (see "Thānī" on fol. 12a).

Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the upper cover: "Uṣūl 4". Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the pastedown of the upper cover: "Ḥ 85". Inscription in Roman numerals on a circular spine label: "719 [next line] 2*".

Origin: According to colophon, copied by Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf ibn ʻUmar, Monday 10 Shaʻbān 773 [Feb. 16, 1372] (fol. 231b).

Incipit: بسم ... حسبنا اله ونعم الوكيل الحمد لله مصور النسم فى شبكات الارحام ... وبعد فان علوم الدين احق المفاخر بالتوقير

Explicit: قوله صلى الله عليه وسلم يعلموا الفرايض فانها نصف العلم كذا فى المعرب والله اعلم بالصواب واليه المرجع زالماب ونسأله تخفيف الحساب ودفع العقاب انه عذير وهاب

Binding Note

Brown leather over paper pasteboards. Upper and lower covers are similarly gold and blind tooled, with a central panel defined by fillets with at its centre a eight-pointed star filled with knotwork. Two pendants in the vertical axis consisting of knotwork. The outer border consists of fillets and a running pattern. Edges partially covered by repair. Brown leather doublure.

Discovery Information

Subject

Islamic law—Interpretation and construction—History—14th century—Sources

Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton

Bazdawī, ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad 1009 or 1010-1089 or 1090—Kanz al-wuṣūl ilá maʻrifat al-uṣūl

Physical Characteristics

File Count

238

Institutional Information

Collection

Manuscripts of the Islamic World

IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/49a12445-2be2-4fc9-b269-230b79f5bd56/manifest

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