Item Summary

A commentary on al-Durrah al-munīfah, the authorʼs own work on Ḥanafite law.

Descriptive Information

Title
كتاب الجواهر النفيسة شرح الدرة المنيفة في مذهب الامام ابي حنيفة النعمان / للشيخ عمر بن عمر الازهري.
Transliterated Title
Kitāb al-Jawāhir al-nafīsah sharḥ al-Durrah al-munīfah fī madhhab al-Imām Abī Ḥanīfah al-Nuʻmān / lil-Shaykh ʻUmar ibn ʻUmar al-Azʹharī.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 256L
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcvq2801619
Publisher
1101 [1689 or 1690]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1689
Format
Manuscript
Extent
265 leaves : paper ; 212 x 155 (147 x 82) mm bound to 210 x 165 mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1904.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1766.
Khulāṣat al-Athar III, p. 220.
Pertsch, Die orientalischen handschriften der Herzoglichen bibliothek zu Gotha, 1037.
Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, III, p. 36.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
Marginal notes. Label on upper cover: "ZK 6". Obscured inscription (fol. 1a).
Collation: Paper ; fol. i + 265 + ii ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 19 lines per page.
Description: Text commented upon in red or overlined in red ; watermarks (crown-star-crescent) ; MS in good condition.
Origin: According to colophon copy completed 1101 by ʻUthmān ibn Muḥammad (fol. 265b).
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله الذي قهر العباد بكاس الموت وجعله على كافة الناس ... وبعد فاني قد استخرت الله سبحانه وتعالى في شرح مقدمتي الموقومة بالدرة المنيفة ...
Colophon: تم الکتاب سنة 1101
Binding Note
Later type II (with flap) binding in dark brown leather. Gold-stamped mandorla with pendants and blind-tooled edging on covers. Similar decoration on flap. Multi-colored endbands.

Discovery Information

Subject
Zuhrī, ʻUmar ibn ʻUmar -1668 or 1669—Durrah al-munīfah fī fiqh Abī Ḥanīfah
Islamic law—Early works to 1800
Hanafites—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Watermarks
Blind tooled bindings
Gold tooled bindings
Headbands

Physical Characteristics

File Count
551

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/b9029f6a-ff5c-48db-8348-37b2b1facb2e/manifest