Item Summary

Gloss on Durar al-Ḥukkām, a commentary by Muḥammad ibn Farāmurz Mullā Khusraw on his Ghurar al-aḥkām, a treatise on Ḥanafī uṣūl al-fiqh. This copy comprises Kitāb al-Ṭahārah - Kitāb al-Waṣāyā.

Descriptive Information

Title
غنية ذوي الاحكام في بغية درر الاحكام / للعلامة الشيخ حسن الشرنبلالي الحنفي
Transliterated Title
Ghunyat dhawī al-iḥkām fī bughiyat Durar al-aḥkām / lil-ʻAllāmah al-Shaykh Ḥasan al-Shurunbulālī al-Ḥanafī.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 165Y
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/db78tf627
Publisher
[1678]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1678
Format
Manuscript
Extent
i + i, 390, i + i leaves: paper ; 255 x 180 (193 x 112) mm.
Provenance
Several ownership statements on fol. 1a, some totally obliterated, one reading Aḥmad Nūr al-Dīn al-Qāḍī bi-ʻAskar Anaṭū---?, known as Tūqādīʹzādah ; another reading Muḥammad ---? bi-ʻAskar Rūm. Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Mach, R. Yahuda, 1125
Brockelmann, C. GAL, II, 226 (10/1. Cmt. Gloss f)
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Contents
1. fol. (i)a-180b: al-Juzʼ al-awwal min Ḥāshiyat al-Durar wa-al-ghurar.
2. fol. 181a-389b: al-Juzʼ al-Thānī
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from fol. (i)a. The same title appears in the preamble (fol. 2a, l. 7).
27 lines per page. Written in medium small naskh in black ink with use of red. Glazed European paper with watermark. Table of contents of part 1 on fol. (i)b. Table of contents of part 2 on fol. 181a. Foliation in black ink using arabic numerals (starting over on fol. 181b). On the left edge of the text block, inscription reading: "Awwal thānī". Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the upper cover: "Thānī 274". Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the pastedown of the upper cover: "Ḥāʼ 835".
Short biographical note on Shurunbulālī written in the same hand as the ownership statement signed Aḥmad Nūr al-Dīn on a piece of paper placed at the beginning of the ms.
Copy completed on 14 Shawwāl 1089 [Nov. 29, 1678] by ʻAlī ibn Aḥmad ibn Salām al-Shāfiʻī al-Ṣūfī al----? (colophon, fol. 389b, followed by four lines of poetry).
Incipit: الحمد لله الذي اظهر في هذه الدار ببديع قدرته ... وبعد فيقول العبد الفقير ... حسن بن عمار المكني بابي الاخلاص الوفائي الشرنبلالي الحنفي ... اني لما قرات درر الحكام شرح غرر الاحكامعلي اتفي استاذ علمته ممن ادركت من العلمأ الاعلام
Explicit: ما يساوي خمسة عشر بعشرة فهو خير وبما فوقها لا وهذا يحفظ وبه يفتي والله اعلم وصلي الله علي سيدنا محمد وعلي اله وصحبه وسلم
Binding Note
Red brown leather over paper pasteboards for upper and lower covers, fore-edge flap and envelope flap. Large blind stamped central mandorla and border made of fillets on the covers. Similar border on the envelope flap, with smaller blind stamp on its point. Orange paper pastedown and free endpaper.

Discovery Information

Subject
Islamic law—Interpretation and construction—Early works to 1800
Hanafites
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Hüsrev Molla d. 1480—Durar al-ḥukkām fī sharḥ Ghurar al-aḥkām

Physical Characteristics

File Count
398

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/3bcabe77-82fa-4209-84bd-4ce21f2b5fab/manifest