Item Summary

Treatise on Hanafite law and jurisprudence, in 40 chapters (faṣl). See table of contents in preamble of text, fol. 2b-7b. According to Kashf al-ẓunūn, it was started by the father of the author and completed by ʻAbd al-Raḥīm at the end of Shaʻbān 651 [1253] in Samarqand. The text is followed on fol. 346b by a note attributed to the author copied from a manuscript of this text.

Descriptive Information

Title
فصول الاحكام في اصول الاحكام
Transliterated Title
Fuṣūl al-iḥkām fī uṣūl al-aḥkām.
Call Number
Oversize Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 141Bq
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/m039k751z
Publisher
[1470]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1470
Format
Manuscript
Extent
ii + 347, i leaves: paper ; 277 x 177 (200 x 125) mm. bound to 277 x 195 mm.
Provenance
Ownership statement on fol. 1a. Acquired by Robert Garrett from Brill, Leyden, 1925, from the books of Murād Bey al-Bārūdī (Beirut).
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett coll., 1707
Brockelmann, C. GAL, I, 382/45 ; SI
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from preamble (fol. 2b, l. 2).
Physical description: 27 lines per page. Written in small nastaʻlīq in black ink with use of red. Thin light cream paper, glossy. Inscription in Ottoman Turkish on fol. (i)a. Foliation in black ink using Arabic numerals (starts with "1" on fol. 6a). Title on head of text block: "ʻImādī".
Origin: Copy completed on 11 Shawwāl 874 [April 13, 1470] by ʻAbd al-Ḥamīd(?) ibn mawlānā Kafī(?) al-Ḥanafī(?) al-Bayḍāwī (colophon, fol. 346a).
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وباسمه يبدأ كل كتاب ويختم وينثر كل خطاب وينظم وبالصلوة على رسوله محمد ... وبعد فان العلم فخر يبقى على مرور الايام حقاب وذكر يتوارثه الاعقاب بعد الاعقاب
Explicit: كان القول رب الارض كما اذا اختلف فى جريان ما الطاحونة وانقطاعه وقال القاضى الامام فخر الدين خان وينبغى ان يكون القول قول منك الشغل وتمامه فى اجارات فناواه تم الكتاب
Binding Note
Quarter bound with flap, in brown leather and cream paper. Paper pastedowns. Leather doublure on fore-edge flap.

Discovery Information

Subject
Islamic law—History—13th century—Sources
Hanafites—History—13th century—Sources
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton

Physical Characteristics

File Count
355

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/0b3df0d4-5080-4064-8f40-f5680c211691/manifest