Item Summary

Commentary on Majmaʻ al-Baḥrayn by Ibn al-Sāʻātī (d. 696/1296), a compendium on Ḥanafī law, based on the Mukhtaṣar by al-Qudūrī (d. 428/1037) and the Manẓūmah by al-Nasafī (d. 537/1142). The text is followed on fol. 325b-326b by several short excerpts from various texts, apparently by the same hand as the main text.

Descriptive Information

Title
شرح النظام الدين
Transliterated Title
Sharḥ al-Niẓām al-Dīn.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 2672Y
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/m326m433n
Publisher
[ 1488]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1488
Format
Manuscript
Extent
i, 326, i leaves: paper ; 253 x 175 (195 x 125) mm. bound to 255 x 190 mm.
Provenance
Seal on fol. 1a. Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Mach, R. Yahuda, 1057
Brockelmann, C. GAL, I, 383 (49/1. Cmtre c) ; SI
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from colophon (fol. 325a).
Incipit: يا من لا يحوط كماله كماله نطاق وصف الفصحاء ولا ينوط بادراك ادراكه افكار فحول الفضلاء نحمدك ... وبعد فيقول العبد الضعيف ... عبد اللطيف بن عبد العزيز بن امين الدين ختم الله بالخير عمله ... انّ بعض اخوانى وخلّص خلانى فى اثناء الصحبة من البين قالوا ان مجمع البحرين كتاب بديع ... الحمد لله ابتداء المصنف فى اول تصنيفه بالتحميد اقتداء بكتاب الله تعالى الحميد
Explicit: واجازها محمد حملا لكلامه الى الصرف الى مصالحه تصحيحا له هذا اخر الكلام الحمد لله على التمام ولرسوله افضل السلام
Physical description: 29 lines per page. Written in square naskh?, in black ink with red for the commented text. The text is framed within two red lines on the last page (fol. 324b). Light cream paper, glossy, with laid lines and fibers visible ; frame-ruled. Some leaves apparently later replacements. Table of contents in red ink on fol. 1a. Kabīkaj on fol. 1a. Fol. i is a later added enpaper, with inscriptions on the recto. The lower part of some leaves are mended, with the text recopied on the repair.
Inscription in Roman script on a label pasted on the pastedown of the upper cover: "A234".
Origin: Copy completed on 24 Dhū al-Qaʻdah 893 [Oct. 30, 1488] (apparently overwritten on an erased sentence) by Muḥammad ibn ʻUthmān ibn Yūsuf ibn Mūsá (colophon, fol. 325a).
Binding Note
Red brown leather, peeling, on pasteboards for upper and lower covers, fore-edge flap and envelope flap. The covers are similarly blind tooled and stamped, with a central horizontal lozenge motif outlined by two fillets and filled with impressions of a small rosette stamp. Eight double fillets, with impressions of the same stamp, irradiate from this lozenge to the outer border, which consists of fillets, a running pattern of impressions of the same rosette stamp, and a running pattern of imp[ressions of a tear-drop stamp. Similar tooling with fillets and impressions of rosette and tear-drop stamps on the fore-edge flap and envelope flap. Paper pastedowns.

Discovery Information

Subject
Islamic law—14th century
Hanafites—14th century
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Ibn al-Sāʻātī, Aḥmad ibn ʻAlī 1254-1294 or 1295—Majmaʻ al-baḥrayn

Physical Characteristics

File Count
336

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/10411583-0f1c-4857-8703-df1aa11314de/manifest