Item Summary

A compendium of the Hanafite principles of jurisprudence with references to the Shāfiʻite principles.

Descriptive Information

Title
[الوجيز في الاصول].
Transliterated Title
[al-Wajīz fī al-uṣūl].
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 851H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcm900p573k
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1500-1599
Format
Manuscript
Extent
i, 41, ii leaves : paper ; 180 x 122 (122 x 63) mm bound to 180 x 126 mm.
Provenance
Signatures: Shams [?]; Muṣṭafá al-Mujīb .. Manṭūrī; Khayr al-Dīn ibn Muṣṭafá; Ṭāshkubrīʹzādah Aḥmad Afandī; ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Mawlá Ḥusām al-Dīn; Aḥmad ibn ʻAbd al-Qādir Afandī .. (fol. 1a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1732.
Hājji Khalīfah, VI, p. 426.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Marginal and interlinear notes and glosses. Table of contents, calligraphy, and short inscriptions (fol. ia-1a) Bio-bibliographical paragraph on the author (fol. 40b). Inscriptions (fol. 41a-iia).
Collation: Paper ; fol. i + i + 41 + ii ; catchwords ; foliation in ink using Hindu-Arabic numerals ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 17 lines per page.
Description: Rubricated ; watermarks (later endpaper only: coat-of-arms with lion) ; MS in good condition; mended.
Origin: Probably from the XVIth century.
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم ربنا آننا من لذلك رحمة ... وبعد فهذا ما قصده اضعف عباد الله يوسف بن حسين الكرماستى من تحرير اصول الحنفية ...
Colophon: نحمد الله على اتمام ما اردته حمد الشاکرين ونصلي على افضل النبيين وعلى آله وصحبه الطيبين الطاهرين ونرجو منهم الشفاعة في يوم الدين. م
Binding Note
Later type II (with flap) binding in red leather. Blind-tooled edging. Blue marbled pastedowns and flyleaves. Multi-colored endbands.

Discovery Information

Subject
Islamic law—Interpretation and construction—Early works to 1800
Hanafites—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Blind tooled bindings
Headbands

Physical Characteristics

File Count
102

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/f03076c0-c46f-4d7b-9343-7237fe04bb81/manifest