Item Summary

A work, in the the form of question and answer, on obscure cases in Hanafite law.

Descriptive Information

Title
كتاب الذخاير الاشرفية في الالغاز الحنفية / لابن الشحنة.
Transliterated Title
Kitāb al-Dhakhāyir al-Ashrafīyah fī al-alghāz al-Ḥanafīyah / li-Ibn al-Shiḥnah.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 852H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcgh93h984s
Publisher
23 Ṣafar 918 [20 May 1512]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1512
Format
Manuscript
Extent
182 leaves : paper ; 273 x 185 (190 x 120) mm bound to 271 x 180 mm.
Provenance
Ownership statements: Muḥammad Afandī; Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Awwal, Cairo dated Shaʻbān 928; purchase by ʻAbd al-Wahhāb from ʻAbd al-Qādir, Constantinople dated 963; purchase by Abd Allāh [?] dated 1280 (fol. 1a); ʻAbd al-Wahhāb with two impressions of his seal (fol. 181b). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1733.
Ḥājji Khalīfah III, p. 325.
Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, III, pp. 50/1.
Pertsch, Die orientalischen handschriften der Herzoglichen bibliothek zu Gotha, 1031.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
A few marginal notes. On the title page is a table of contents.
Collation: Paper ; fol. 182 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 13 lines per page.
Description: Rubricated ; some vowel signs ; MS in good condition.
Origin: According to colophon copy completed 23 Ṣafar 918 by ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad al Manẓarāwi (fol. 181b).
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم توكلت علي الله الحمد لله الذي کشف بالعلماء کل مشکل و ملغز واوضح بالفهماء ... وبعد فان الفقه عماد الدين وحبله المتين المصعد الي افق الحق المبين ...
Colophon: وکان الفراغ من نسخه في الثالث والعشرين من صفرالخير سنة ثماني عشرة وتسع مائة احسن الله عاقبتها وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد واله وصحبه وسلم. على يد فقير رحمة ربه علي بن محمد المنظراوي غفرالله له ولوالديه ولجميع المسلمين امين والحمد لله رب العالمين
Binding Note
Later? type II (with flap) binding in red leather. Blind-stamped mandorla with pendants, corner and edge designs and blind-tooled decorative edging on covers. Similar decoration on flap. Blue marbled pastedowns. Cover apparently re-used as it doesn't fit the width of the pages.

Discovery Information

Subject
Islamic law—Miscellanea—Early works to 1800
Hanafites—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Blind tooled bindings
Autographs
Stamps

Physical Characteristics

File Count
375

Institutional Information

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

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/3405666c-96a2-4cff-bcbe-71de87692dfc/manifest