Item Summary

Summary of Munyat al-fuqahāʼ, a compilation of legal cases by al-Zāhidī's teacher, Fakhr al-Dīn Badīʻ ibn Abī Manṣūr al-ʻArabī al-Quzabnī (or: Qubaznī). The text ends on fol. 332b [331b in the modern foliation] and is followed on fol. 334b-335a [333b-334a] by a "Faṣl Qāḍī Khān".

Descriptive Information

Title
قنية المنية لتتميم الغنية
Transliterated Title
Qunyat al-munyah li-tatmīm al-ghunyah.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 629Y
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/5138jh493
Publisher
[ 1420]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1420
Format
Manuscript
Extent
335 leaves: paper ; 273 x 178 (190 x 110) mm. bound to 275 x 180 mm.
Provenance
Several ownership statements, some with seals on fol. 10a [9a in the modern foliation]. Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Mach, R. Yahuda, 1050
Brockelmann, C. GAL, I, 382 (44/1) ; SI
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from preamble (fol. 10b, l. 23-24). The name of the author appears at the beginning of the text.
Physical description: 23 lines per page. Written in black and red ink. Headings in larger script with re-inking in red. Light biscuit paper with laid and chain lines and pulp visible. Marginal annotations. Fol. 1-8 and 333 [332 in the modern foliation] are later additions of glazed European paper with watermark, with a table of contents on fol. 1a-8a. Several short texts relating stories and fatwas on fol. 9a [8a in the modern foliation]. List of abbreviations used in the text on fol. 9b [8b]. Several inscriptions including ownership statements on fol. 10a [9a]. Magic formula on fol. 335b [334b]. Foliation in red ink using Arabic numerals (starts with "1" on fol. 11a [10a]). Modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals (omits the first fol.).
Three spine labels (vertical), one with a red border, with the title in Arabic script, reading "Qunyat al-munyah lil-Zāhidī" ; the scond bordered in blue, with the inscription in Roman script: "R3" (repeated on a similar label pasted on the pastedown of the upper cover, and in red pencil on fol. 1a) ; the third almost completely wanting.
Origin: Copy completed in Rajab 823 [July-Aug. 1420] by Najm al-Jalālī(?) al-Bukhārī (colophon, fol. 333b [332b in the modern foliation]).
Incipit: الحمد لله الذى اوضح معالم العلوم واعلى منارها ونشر فى ملكوت السموات ... وبعج فيقول الشيخ الامام ... مختار بن محمود نجم الحق والدين الزاهدي نغمّده الله بالرحمة والرضوان ... لما خلت عوالم الفضايل عن فقهاء البرية وكثرت وقوع الاحاديث
Explicit: فشهد عليه الوارثان المقران به هل تقبل شهاتهما كشهادتهما بالدين ام لا والله اعلم بالصواب واليه المرجع والماب
Binding Note
Brown leather over paper pasteboards for upper and lower covers, fore-edge flap and envelope flap. Both covers have a central stamped mandorla with an arabesque of flowers and an outer border made of several fillets, with impressions of a small circular stamp. The envelope flap has a similar border with a small stamped roundel on its point. Marbled paper pastedowns. Leather doublure for the envelope flap. Edges covered by repairs. The upper cover is disbound.

Discovery Information

Subject
Islamic law—Early works to 1800
Hanafites—13th century
Fatwas—13th century
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Quzabnī, Badīʻ ibn Abī Manṣūr active 13th century—Munyat al-fuqahāʼ Abridgment

Physical Characteristics

File Count
340

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/23cd781a-a306-4e2e-a2f3-6b482feb1957/manifest