Item Summary

A brief account of the lives of the four Imāms together with a few problems of jurisprudence after the Hanafite school. The treatise was composed and prepared as a present for the governor of Cairo, Muṣṭafá Pāshā.

Descriptive Information

Title
في ذكر الائمة الاربعة المجتهدين وبعض مسايل فقهية على مذهب الحنفية / للفقير مصطفى بن حمزة بن ابراهيم بن ولي البولوي.
Transliterated Title
Fī dhikr al-aʼimmah al-arbaʻah al-mujtahidīn wa-baʻḍ masāyil fiqhīyah ʻalá madhhab al-Ḥanafīyah / lil-Faqīr Muṣṭafá ibn Ḥamzah ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Walī al-Būlawī.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 936H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dch989rf69z
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1600-1699
Extent
12 leaves : paper ; 196 x 135 (132 x 70) mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1773.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from dedication (fol. 1a).
A few marginal notes. On the title page and after the colophon are verses of poetry.
Collation: Paper ; fol. 12 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 19 lines per page.
Description: Rubricated ; some vowel signs ; watermarks (coat-of-arms? with countermark roman-alphabet initials with trefoil) ; MS in fair condition.
Origin: Copy completed 24 Jumād Awwal [?] by ʻAlī al-Ḥusaynī al-Azʹharī (fol. 12b).
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله الذي بسط الارض بقدرته ورفع السما وهو العزيز الحكيم يحكم ما يريد ويفعل ما بشا ...
Colophon: وکان الفراغ من کتابة هذه النسخة لاربع وعشرين خلت من جماد اول على يد کاتبها اضعف العباد علي الحسيني الازهري عفي [عفا] الله عنه آمين
Binding Note
Unbound.

Physical Characteristics

File Count
24

Institutional Information

Collection
Princeton’s Holdings of the al-Madani Library
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
Holding location
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IIIF Manifest URL

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