Item Summary

Commentary on Khaṭīb al-Tamartāshī's work on Islamic law, Tanwīr al-abṣār.

Descriptive Information

Title
كتاب الدر المختار في شرح تنوير الأبصار / تأليف علي الدمشقي.
Transliterated Title
Kitāb al-Durr al-mukhtār fī sharḥ Tanwīr al-abṣār / taʼlīf ʻAlī al-Dimashqī.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 1262Y
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/xd07gw28k
Publisher
[23 Ṣafar 1201, i.e. December 15, 1786]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1786
Format
Manuscript
Extent
399 leaves : paper ; 204 x 123 (145 x 85) mm bound to 203 x 127 mm.
Provenance
Ownership signatures: Muḥammad ʻAṭā Allāh; Muḥammad ʻĀrif al-Ḥilmī, mudarris bi-Dār al-Khilāfah al-ʻAlīyah dated 11 Sh. [1]239 (fol. f a). Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Mach, R. Catalogue of Arabic Manuscripts (Yahuda Section), 1199.
Brockelmann, GAL, II, 404 (commentary b); S II, 428.
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page of index (fol. A)
Marginal annotations. Table of contents (fol. A-F). Quote from Manāqib Abī Ḥanīfah (fol. 1a). Bookdealer's insert and label: "ELS No. 1262" (pastedowns).
Collation: Paper ; fol. i + f + 399 + ii ; catchwords ; foliation in ink using Hindu-Arabic numerals ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 25 lines per page ; later table of contents pages frame-ruled in gold (fol. A-F).
Description: Text in red, commentary in black ; some paper tinted red or yellow ; folios 247-256 have wide painted borders of red or yellow ; watermarks (three hats; lion) ; MS in good condition.
Decoration: Illuminated headpiece in gold, blue, tan and black. Marginal medallion in gold and pink (fol. 1b). Opening spread frame-ruled in gold (fol. 1b-2a).
Origin: According to the colophon copied 23 Ṣafar 1201 by Muḥammad Saʻīd ibn Jār Allāh ibn Wafā ... al-Luṭfī al-Maqdisī al-Ḥanafī (fol. 398b). Title page of index dated 19 al-Ḥijjah 1204 (fol. A a).
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم حمدا لک يا من شرحت صدورنا بانواع الهدية سابقا ... وبعد فيقول سيدنا شيخ الاسلام والمسلمين عين المحققين ... محمد علأ الدين بن الشيخ علي الامام بجامع بني امير بدمشق المحمية الحنفي لما بيضت الجزؤ الاول من خزاين الاسرار وبدايع الافكار في شرح تنوير الابصار وجامع البحار ...
Colophon: قال كاتبه الفقير الحقير تراب اقدام العلما والمساكين محمد سعيد ابن جار الله ابن وفا ابن جار الله ابن علي ... اللطفى المقدسي الحنفي عامله الله باللطف الخفي قد فرغت من كتابته اليوم الثالث من الثلث الثالث من الشهر الثاني في النصف الاول من العشر الاول من المائة الثالثه من الالف الثانيه هجرية علي صاحبها افضل الصلاة ازكي التحية في صحن الصنحرة المشرفة غفر الله له ولجميع المسلمين ولمن طالع فيه قرءا له الفاتحة الفاتحة امين اللهم امين اه
Binding Note
Later? type II (with flap) binding in dark brown leather. Blind-tooled mandorla with pendants outlined in gold and blind- and gold-tooled edging on covers. Similar decoration on flap. Green paper pastedowns and flyleaves. Multi-colored endbands.

Discovery Information

Subject
Khaṭīb al-Tamartāshī, Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd Allāh 1532 or 3-1595 or 6.—Tanwīr al-abṣār
Islamic law—Early works to 1800
Hanafites—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton

Physical Characteristics

File Count
409

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/bdacf314-0952-4d2f-9b32-301e1d532cae/manifest