Item Summary

Commentary on Mukhtaṣar al-muntahá, an abridgment by Jamāl al-Dīn ʻUthmān ibn al-Ḥājib (d. 646/1249) of his own Muntahá al-suʼāl wa-al-amal fī ʻilmay al-uṣūl wa-al-jadal, a manual of Malikī law. The commentary was completed on 10 Jumādá II 766 [March 4, 1365] (see end of text, fol. 167a). The text is followed on fol. 167b-168a by a commentary on the introduction of the Muntahá attributed to Ibn al-ḤBāb (fol. damaged with loss of text). Biographical note on the author on fol. 1a.

Descriptive Information

Title
شرح ابن الحاجب / للامام العالم العلم الثبت المحقق ... محيي الدين ابو زكريا يحيى بن الشيخ الصالح ابي عمران موسى بن عمر الرهوني
Transliterated Title
Sharḥ Ibn al-Ḥājib / lil-Imām al-ʻālim al-ʻalam al-thabat al-muḥaqqiq ... Muḥyī al-Dīn Abū Zakaryā Yaḥyá ibn al-shaykh al-ṣāliḥ Abī ʻUmrān Mūsá ibn ʻUmar al-Rahūnī.
Call Number
Oversize Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 26Yq
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/79408077g
Publisher
[ 1438]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1438
Format
Manuscript
Extent
i, 168, i leaves : paper ; 280 x 210 (210 x 160) mm. bound to 290 x 220 mm.
Provenance
Ownership statement on fol. 1a. Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Mach, R. Yahuda, 883
Brockelmann, C. GAL, I, 306/VIII. Auszug. Cmtre 6 ; SI
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from colophon (fol. 167a). The title appears in the preamble as "Tuhfat al-masʼūl fī sharḥ Mukhtaṣar Muntahá al-sūl" (fol. 2a, l. 3).
Physical description: 32 lines per page. Written in medium small Maghribī script in black ink, with larger script in black or magenta ink for "qāla" "aqūl". Light cream European paper with watermark. Lower and inner margins worm eaten.
Inscriptions in pencil in Arabic script on fol. 1a, reading respectively: "Uṣūl-i fiqh 624", "---? 777".
Origin: Copy completed for himself ("li-nafsih") by Muḥammad ibn Maymūn(?) al-Wāṣilī, on Sunday 3(?) Shawwāl 841 [March 30, 1438] (colophon, fol. 167a).
Incipit: قال الشيخ الامام العلامة فاتح اقبال المشكلات وكاشف نقاب الشبه المعضلات ... محيى الدين ابو زكريا يهيى بن الشيخ العالم ابى عمر موسى بن عمر الرهونى الحمد لله الذى باين بين العقول مباينة ... اما بعد فان العقول السليمة متطابقة والشرايع باسرها متوافقة على ان العلم من اكمل الكمالات
Binding Note
Quarter bound in blue cloth and brown leather, with gilt tooling on spine. Green paper pastedown and free endpaper.

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Subject
Ibn al-Ḥājib, ʻUthmān ibn ʻUmar 1175-1249—Mukhtaṣār Muntahá al-sūl
ابن الحاجب، عثمان بن عمر—مختصار منتهى السول
Islamic law—Interpretation and construction—14th century
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton

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File Count
175

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/15272272-1242-4e08-9a29-e912d75235c4/manifest