Item Summary

An urjūzah of over 20,000 verses mainly on jurisprudence but also discusses theology and grammar. The work is in two parts, the first of which is incomplete at the end. It is also known as Manẓūmat al-Kamāl or Durr al-maqāl and is based on the great standard works of Shāfiʻite law.

Descriptive Information

Title
رموز الكنوز الذي برز ابريزه احسن بروز / نظم كمال الدين محمد بن موسى بن عيسى الدميري المصري الشافعي.
Transliterated Title
Rumūz al-kunūz alladhī baraza ibrīzihi aḥsan burūz / naẓẓama Kamāl al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Mūsá ibn ʻĪsá al-Damīrī al-Miṣrī al-Shāfiʻī.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 891H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dc08613100g
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1600-1699
Format
Manuscript
Extent
402 leaves : paper ; 260 x 180 (182 x 107) mm bound to 260 x 193 mm.
Provenance
Ownership signatures include: Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Saqqāf; Ḥusayn ibn ʻUmar [..] dated 1121; ʻAbd al-[..] ibn Muḥammad Hilāl; Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī [..] dated 939 (fol. 1a); Muḥammad ibn al-Shihnah al-Shāfiʻī; Nāṣir al-Dīn Muḥammad al-Shāmī al-Mālikī; Ḥusayn [..] ibn ʻUmar al-Rāwī; ʻAbd al-Ghanī ibn Muḥammad Hilāl (fol. 129a). Seal impression (fol. 1a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1819.
Suyūṭī, Ḥusn al-Muḥāḍarah (1321 AH), I, p. 186.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
Marginal notes and glosses. al-Juzʼ 2 begins on folio 129a. Unnumbered folio after fol. 170.
Collation: Paper ; fol. 402 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 25 lines per page in two columns.
Description: Rubricated ; verse separators in red ; MS in fair condition; foxed and stained with dampness.
Origin: Probably from the XVIIth century. Very rare.
Incipit: بسم * الله الرحمن الرحيم رب يسر بالكري[م] * الحمد لله العظيم ذي الکمال * والاقتدار والجلال والجمال ...
Ending: وحررت بالحجر في شهر رجب * فالشکر لله علينا قد وجب * اذ کان في شهر حرام وحرم * والحجر والبيت العتيق والحرم * فنسأل الله القبول والرضى * بما قضى والعفوعن ذنب مضى. لله الحمد اولا وآخرا
Binding Note
Later type II (with flap) binding in red leather. Blind-stamped mandorla with pendants and blind-tooled decorative edging on covers. Similar decoration on flap. Blue paper pastedowns.

Discovery Information

Subject
Islamic law—Early works to 1800
Shafiites—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Blind tooled bindings
Autographs
Stamps

Physical Characteristics

File Count
858

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/ba18280f-7e36-47e4-83ca-5550c36ddd0a/manifest