Item Summary

Gloss on al-Taftazānī's gloss on al-Ījī's commentary on the Mukhtaṣar of Ibn al-Ḥājib.

Descriptive Information

Title
جواهر التحقيق.
Transliterated Title
Jawāhir al-taḥqīq.
Call Number
Oversize Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 2395Yq
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/mw22v8080
Publisher
20 Ramaḍān 1067 [July 2, 1657]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1657
Format
Manuscript
Extent
271 leaves : paper ; 305 x 207 (202 x 120) mm bound to 298 x 210 mm.
Provenance
Ownership statements: some obscured, two dated 1169? and 1253, names include Ibrāhīm Abī Amīr al-Muʼminīn al-Mahdī and Muḥammad ... Yaḥyá? al-Kabsī? (fol. 1a). Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Mach, R. Catalogue of Arabic Manuscripts (Yahuda Section), 870.
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
Marginal notes. Bookdealer's labels and insert including label: "ELS No. 2395". Title also on top edge of text block.
Collation: Paper ; fol. i (later green paper) + 271 + i (later green paper) ; catchwords ; pagination in red ink using Hindu-Arabic numerals ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 31 lines per page.
Description: Rubricated ; watermarks (three crescents; roman-alphabet countermark initials "AG" with trefoil and "PA" with trefoil) ; MS in good condition.
Origin: According to the colophon copied Ramaḍān 1067 (fol. 270b)
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله الذى هدانا بالهداية الذانسة الاصلية للوصول شريعته الالهيه الازليه وشرح صدور بالانوار البينات ... وبعد فقد توافق اصحاب الكمال ...
Colophon: تم الكتاب بسم الله العزيز الوهاب وله الحمد ابدا ... وذلك اخر نهار الاثنثن لعله عشرين فى شهر رمضان المعظم سنه 1067 ولا حول ولا قوة الا بالله ... وذلك برسم الفقيه الافضل الامثل جمال الدين ... على بن صلاح الطيتري اصلح الله حاله وبلغه من ... يا رب فاغفر لعبد كان كاتبه يا قارى الخط قل بالله امينا
Binding Note
Later full type III (without flap) binding in dark brown leather. Red leather blind-stamped mandorla with pendants. Green paper pastedowns and flyleaves. Multi-colored endbands.

Discovery Information

Subject
Taftāzānī, Masʻūd ibn ʻUmar 1322-1389?—Ḥāshiyah ʻalá sharḥ al-Ījī
Ījī, ʻAḍud al-Dīn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Aḥmad -1355—Sharḥ Mukhtaṣar al-Muntahá fī al-uṣūl
Ibn al-Ḥājib, ʻUthmān ibn ʻUmar 1175-1249—Mukhtaṣar al-Muntahá al-uṣūlī
Islamic law—Interpretation and construction—Early works to 1800
Malikites—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Watermarks
Blind tooled bindings
Headbands
Autographs

Physical Characteristics

File Count
280

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/e423408c-76c4-4c37-b305-b885a3151555/manifest