Descriptive Information

Title

جوهرة النيرة

Transliterated Title

Jawharat al-nayyirah.

Call Number

Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 73Y

Identifier

http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/2801pj937

Publisher

[between 16--? and 1825]

Language

Arabic

Date Created

1600-1825

Format

Manuscript

Extent

iii, 344 leaves: paper ; 260 x 178 (180 x 115) mm. bound to 260 x 200 mm.

Provenance

On fol. 1a: note explaining that this copy was taken at the Sūq al-Sulṭānīyah on Muḥarram 1, 1241 [August 16, 1825], signed Aghā(?)-yi Ḥājjī ---? Aghāʹzādah(?) ---? Nūrī in ---?, with seal ; dated 17 M[uḥarram] 1254 [April 12, 1838] ; ownership statement signed al-Ḥājj Muḥammad Nūrī ; ownership statement signed Aḥmad Najīb ibn Aḥmad Ṭāhir, dated 11 D[hū al-Qaʻdah?] [12]79 [1863]. Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.

Source Acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

Mach, R. Yahuda, 990

Brockelmann, C. GAL, I, 174/12. f

Brockelmann, C. GAL, SI, 296/8

Rights Statement

No Known Copyright

Notes

Ms. codex.

Title supplied by cataloger.

33 lines per page. Written in small naskh in black ink with use of red. The text is framed within a red and black border on fol. 1b. Illuminated headpiece (ʻunwān) in gold, blue and red on fol. 1b. Fol. ii-iii are later additions , with table of contents on fol. (ii)b. Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the upper cover: "Ḥāʼ 171". Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the pastedown of the upper cover: "Ḥāʼ 645".

Incipit: الحمد لله ولا قوة الا بالله وما توفيقي الا بالله والصلاة ... هذا شرح لمختصر القدوري جمعته بالفاظ مختصره وعبارات ظاهرة تشتمل على كثير من المعاني ... كتاب الطهارة الكتاب في اللغة هو الجمع يقال كتبت الشي اي جمعته

Explicit: وهو ثلثة وعشرون ثلثة وهو سبعة وثلثان بقى خمسة عشر ثلث وهو نصيبه من التركة وهكذا كل وارث والله اعلم تم الكتاب بحمد الله تعالي وعونه وحسن توفيقه

Binding Note

Brown leather over paper pasteboards for upper and lower covers, fore-edge flap and envelope flap. Both covers have a central gold stamped mandorla with two pendants on the vertical axis and a border consisting of blind-tooled fillets with three small round stamps on each inner corner. Similar border on the envelope flap, with smaller gold stamp on its point. Blue-dyed paper pastedowns.

Discovery Information

Subject

Qudūrī, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad—Mukhtaṣar al-Qudūrī

قدوري، احمد بن محمد—مختصر القدوري

Islamic law—Early works to 1800

Hanafites—Early works to 1800

Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton

Physical Characteristics

File Count

352

Institutional Information

Collection

Manuscripts of the Islamic World

IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/79309e12-1e8f-455d-8fa7-98f55944e9fd/manifest

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