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كتاب الاشباه والنظائر في الفقه على مذهب الامام الاعظم والهمام الاكرام ابي حنيفة النعمان بن ثابت ...
Kitāb al-Ashbāh wa-al-naẓāʼir fī al-fiqh ʻalá madhhab al-imām al-aʻẓam wa-al-humām al-akrām Abī Ḥanīfah al-Nuʻmān ibn Thābit ...
1594
Elegant copy of a treatise on Ḥanafī law. The text is preceded on fol. 1b-7a by a description of contents.
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- Publisher
- Qusṭantinīyah, [1594]
- Language
- Arabic
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Item Summary
Elegant copy of a treatise on Ḥanafī law. The text is preceded on fol. 1b-7a by a description of contents.
Descriptive Information
- Title
- كتاب الاشباه والنظائر في الفقه على مذهب الامام الاعظم والهمام الاكرام ابي حنيفة النعمان بن ثابت ...
- Transliterated Title
- Kitāb al-Ashbāh wa-al-naẓāʼir fī al-fiqh ʻalá madhhab al-imām al-aʻẓam wa-al-humām al-akrām Abī Ḥanīfah al-Nuʻmān ibn Thābit ...
- Call Number
- Islamic Manuscripts, New Series no. 1970
- Identifier
- ark:/88435/dc2j62sg45p
- Publisher
- Qusṭantinīyah, [1594]
- Language
- Arabic
- Date Created
- 1594
- Format
- Manuscript
- Extent
- i, 289, i leaves : paper ; 201 x 118 (140 x 60) mm. bound to 202 x 130 mm.
- References
- Mach, R. and E. Ormsby. Handlist (New Series), 74
- Brockelmann, C. GAL, II, 310 (4/1)
- Rights Statement
- Copyright Not Evaluated
- Notes
- Ms. codex.
- Title from end of text (fol. 287a).
- Physical description: 19 lines. Written in nastaʻlīq in black ink with use of red; gold for entries and text stops on fol. 1b-7b. The text is framed in gold outlined in black. Dark cream paper with laid lines and fibres visible. Several inscriptions and short excerpts on fol. (i)a-(ii)b, including ownership statements.
- Decoration: Illuminated headpieces (ʻunwān) on fol. 1b and 7b, elegantly executed in gold, red, blue, light blue and white.
- Origin: According to colophon, copied by Faḍl Allāh ibn Muḥammad in Qusṭantinīyah, and completed on Thursday 10 Shawwāl 1002 [June 1594] (fol. 287a).
- Incipit: الحمد لله وسلام على عباده الذين اصطفى وبعد فلما يسر الله تعالى اتمام كتاب الاشباه والنظاير الفقهية على مذهب الحنفية المشتمل على سبعة انواع اردت ان افهرسه فى اوله ليسهل الكظر فيه الاول فن القواعيد الاولى
- Incipit main text (fol. 7b): الحمد لله على ما انعم وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد وسلم وبعد فان الفقه اشرف العلوم قدرا واعظمها اجرا
- Explicit: على راس شجرتين فتقطع نصفين [287أ] رحمه الله تعالى وهذا اخر ما اوردناه من كتاب الاشباه والنظاير فى الفقه على مذهب الامام الاعظم والهمام الاكرم ابى حنيفة النعمان بن ثابت ... وقد كان الفراغ من تأليفه فى السابع والعشرين من جمادى الاخرة سنة تسع وستين وتسعماية وكانت مدة تأليفه ستة اشهر مع تخلّل ايام توعك الجسد والحمد لله على التمام وصلى الله ... رذوان الله تعالى عليهم اجمعين والحمد لله رب العالمين امين امين امين
- Binding Note
- Dark brown leather over paper pasteboards for upper and lower covers and envelope flap. The covers have a gold stamped central scalloped mandorla filled with a floral arabesque left plain. The border is not visible on the covers due to repair. Smaller stamp on the envelope flap, with a border consisting of fillets and a guilloche in gold. Red-brown leather doublure.
Physical Characteristics
- File Count
- 588
Institutional Information
- Collection
- Manuscripts of the Islamic World
- IIIF Manifest URL
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https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/a6a0edc0-c031-4ea5-a30a-61d72588da93/manifest