Descriptive Information

Title

تبيين الحقائق من شرح كنز الدقائق

Transliterated Title

Tabyīn al-ḥaqāʼiq min sharḥ Kanz al-daqāʼiq.

Call Number

Oversize Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 397Yq

Identifier

http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/cj82k989v

Publisher

[ 1452-1454]

Language

Arabic

Date Created

1452-1454

Format

Manuscript

Extent

5 v. (i, 144, i + 182 + 159 + 190 + 193) leaves: paper ; 270 x 190 (190 x 130) mm. bound to 270 x 190 mm.

Provenance

Waqf statement in the name of Masʻūd, formerly Āghā Dār al-Saʻādah al-Sharīfah [Istanbul], who first endowed the set for the Jāmiʻ al-Azhar in 1079 H. [1668] and then changed it ("rajaʻa ʻan sharṭihi al-awwal") in favor of al-Sayyid ʻAlī Efendi, qāḍī al-quḍāh bi-al-Diyār al-Miṣrīyah and his progeny, then for the Jāmiʻ Shāhʹzāde, dated beginning of Muḥarram 1096 [Dec. 1684] (vol. 1, fol. 1a-b; vol. 2, fol. 1a-b; vol. 4, 2a-b ; vol. 5, fol. 2b ; vol. 6, fol. 2b, with impressions of a small rectangular stamp with the inscription "ʻAbduhu Masʻūd"; impressions of the same stamp throughout). Vol. 5 has impressions of an oval stamp with the inscription "Masʻūd". Impression of a small circular stamp with inscription reading "Muḥammad Ṭāhir", dated 1211 H. [1796 or 7] on vol. 2, fol. 182b. Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.

Source Acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

Mach, R. Yahuda, 1065

Brockelmann, C. GAL, II, 196 (1/III. Cmtre 1) ; SII

Rights Statement

No Known Copyright

Contents

1. vol. 2 (incomplete at the beginning) : [Kitāb al-Ḥajj, Bāb al-Iḥrām] - Kitāb al-Ṭalāq, Bāb al-Rajʻah (end of Juzʼ 1).

2. vol. 3 (incomplete at end) : Bāb al-Īlāʼ - Kitāb al-Mafqūd.

3. vol. 4 (incomplete at beginning) : Kitāb al-Mafqūd (end) - Kitāb al-Wikālah, Bāb ʻAzl al-wakīl (end of Juzʼ 2).

4. vol. 5 : Kitāb al-Daʻwá - Kitāb al-Qismah.

5. vol. 6 : Kitāb al-Muzāraʻah - end.

Notes

Ms. codex.

Title from colophon of vol. 1 (fol. 143a).

29 lines per page. Written in medium small naskh in black ink with use of red for headings, "qāla", re-inking and overlining. Light cream paper, glossy, with laid and chain lines visible. Ḥāshiyah on the margin. Foliation in red ink using Arabic numerals. Mention "waqf" on the margins.

Table of contents by a later hand on vol. 1 (fol. 1a), vol. 2 (fol. 2a, crossed out), vol. 4 (fol. 1a), vol. 5 (fol. 1a), vol. 6 (fol. 1a).

Note mentioning the number of folios in the vol. on vol. 1 (fol. 143a), vol. 4 (fol. 157b), vol. 5, fol. 188b, vol. 6 (fol. 192a), with a mention of the total number of leaves in the six volumes.

Each volume has a label pasted on the upper cover, with inscription in Arabic script reading "107" (some have "Ḥāʼ 107" on the pastedown of the upper cover).

Copy of vol. 1 completed on the last day of Shaʻbān 856 [Sept. 16, 1452] by Ismāʻīl ibn Khalīl ibn Aḥmad al-Ghazzī (colophon, fol. 143a). Copy of vol. 6 completed on 5 Muḥarram 859 [Dec. 26, 1454] by the same (al-Ḥanafī added).

Vol. 2 and 4 collated on an autograph by Aḥmad ibn Yūnus al-..., known as Ibn al-ShLBī (the name appears on vol. 4; see collation statement, vol. 1, fol. 143a, dated 5 Rajab 938 [Feb. 12, 1532] ; vol. 4, fol. 157b, dated 23 Shaʻbān 938 [March 31, 1532]).

Reading statement in the name of Aḥmad al-ʻIbādī(?) al-Ḥanafī, dated Jāmiʻ al-Azhar, Jumādá I 1067 [Feb.-March 1657] on vol. 1, fol. 143a.

Binding Note

Vol. 2, 4, 5 are similarly bound with golden brown leather (partly wanting on vol. 4) over paper pasteboards for upper and lower covers, fore-edge flap and envelope flap. Both covers have a central gold stamped mandorla with two gold stamped pendants on the vertical axis, the whole outlined in gold with radiating flecks. The outer border consists of gold fillets and a guilloche. Similar border on the envelope flap, with a small gold stamped motif outlined in gold with radiating flecks at its center. Marbled paper pastedowns. Vol. 3 and 6 are bound in the same leather, with the same outer border on the covers, and a larger blind stamped central mandorla, with two pendants on the vertical axis (blind-stamped on vol. 6, gold-stamped on vol. 3). Blind-stamped motif on the envelope flap, outlined in gold.

Discovery Information

Subject

Nasafī, ʻAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad -1310—Kanz al-daqāʼiq—Commentaries—14th century

Islamic law—Interpretation and construction—Early works to 1800

Hanafites—Early works to 1800

Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton

Physical Characteristics

File Count

910

Institutional Information

Collection

Manuscripts of the Islamic World

IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/5e6b96be-8bf8-441f-9be8-70a880ddc33d/manifest

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