Item Summary

The major part of one of the best works on Mālikite law and jurisprudence according to the narrative of Saḥnūn Abū Saʻīd ibn ʻAbd al-Salām al-Tanūkhī, 240 [854]. According to Ibn Khallikan (I, p. 494), Saḥnūn received the contents of al-Mudawwanah from Ibn al-Qāsim. The first who undertook to draw up a Mudawwanah was the Mālikite doctor, Asad ibn al-Furāt, 213 [828/9]. It originally consisted of questions proposed by him to Ibn al-Qāsim with their solution by the latter; he then took them with him to al-Qayrawān, and Saḥnūn wrote them out under his direction; it was called the Asadīyah, but as the questions were without any order in this first sketch, Saḥnūn drew them up under separate headings and augmented their number. This present volume contains the books on (1) al-Ṣiyām wa-al-iʻtikāf, (2) al-ḥudūd fī al-qadhf, (3) al-ʻAtq.

Descriptive Information

Title
المدونة.
Transliterated Title
al-Mudawwanah.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 900Hq
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dczk51vt18k
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1000-1099
Format
Manuscript
Extent
131 leaves : parchment ; 256 x 196 (182 x 130) mm. bound to 266 x 206 mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1834.
Ibn Khallikān, Wafayāt (1299 AH), I, p. 494.
Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), V, pp. 476/7.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Contents
1. fol. 1a-10b: Kitāb al-Ṣiyām wa-al-iʻtikāf min al-Mudawwanah.
2. fol. 11a-53b: Kitāb al-Ḥudūd fī al-qadhf min al-Mudawwanah.
3. fol. 54a-131b: Kitāb al-ʻAtq al-awwal min al-Mudawwanah.
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from fol. 1a.
Marginal notes and glosses.
Collation: Parchment ; fol. iii + 131 + iii ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 20 lines per page.
Description: MS in good condition. Several folios are defective, several others are stained with dampness. MS incomplete at end. Probably from the Xlth century. MS is rare.
Incipit: بسم الله ... السحور والاکل بعد الفجر. قلت لعبد الرحمن بن القاسم ما العجر عند ملك فقال ملكا عن الشفق ما هو ...
Ending: قيل ذلك والذي استحق قد كان وحب له قبل الزرع فله فيه الكرا على ما و
Binding Note
Modern type III (without flap) binding in red leather. Blind-tooled edging. Object includes earlier type II (with flap) binding in red leather and blue paper with block-pressed geometric design (257 x 200 mm.).

Discovery Information

Subject
Islamic law—Early works to 1800
Malikites—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Parchment (Paper)
Blind tooled bindings

Physical Characteristics

File Count
296

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/29913945-694f-4f1c-a75e-f93669c5550d/manifest