Item Summary

A metrical treatise in 2660 verses on the debated points of law.

Descriptive Information

Title
[المنظومة النسفية في الخلافيات].
Transliterated Title
[al-Manẓūmah al-Nasafīyah fī al-khilāfīyāt].
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 825H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dckk91fx880
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1200-1299
Format
Manuscript
Extent
73 leaves : paper ; 169 x 122 (120 x 80) mm bound to 161 x 120 mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1623.
Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), VI, p. 195.
Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, III, pp. 138/9.
Rieu, Supplement of the catalogue of the Arabic Mss, 320.
Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 4854/5.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Marginal notes and glosses. MS is incomplete at the beginning. According to the colophon the work was composed 504/1110. Inscription on folio 73b.
Collation: Paper ; fol. 73 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 19 lines per page.
Description: Vowel signs ; MS in fair condition; worm-eaten; first 26 and last 2 folios defective.
Origin: Probably from XIIIth century. Copied by ʻAlī ibn Maḥmūd ibn Abī Ṭālib (fol. 73a).
Incipit (as extant): ان لم يکن قيل له اعمل ما ترى وصححا في قسطه وقررا ...
Colophon: قد انتهى نظم الخلافيات * والحمد لله على الحالات * ثم الصلوة والسلام ابدًا * على النبي الهاشمي سرمدًا * وصاحب النظم ابو حفص عمر * من نسف اتم هذا في صفر * للنصف يوم السبت وقت التغذية * في سنة الاربع الخمسماية. وقد نسخه السيد الضعيف الداعي لجميع المسلمين سيد علي بن محمود ابن ابي طالب
Binding Note
Remnants of binding in dark brown leather survive. Spine is largely intact; leather on covers largely missing revealing the written pages used in the binding.

Discovery Information

Subject
Islamic law—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton

Physical Characteristics

File Count
154

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/e2bc0a8c-fa00-4e98-9da8-763bc7977791/manifest