Item Summary

A short metrical treatise embodying the Muslim articles of faith.

Descriptive Information

Title
كتاب القواعد في نظم العقايد / تأليف قاسم بن عبد الله الحنفي.
Transliterated Title
Kitāb al-Qawāʻid fī naẓm al-ʻaqāyid / taʼlīf Qāsim ibn ʻAbd Allāh al-Ḥanafī.
Call Number
Oversize Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 996Hq
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dc6395wm16z
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1400-1499
Extent
9 leaves : paper ; 250 x 170 (180 x 110) mm bound to 249 x 170 mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1561.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
Contains Kitāb Waṣīyat al-Imām al-Aʻẓam Abī Ḥanīfah, the dying exhortations of Abū Ḥanīfah, and a note on the finality of Islam by Ḥamīd al-Dīn al-Ḍarīr [al-Rāmushī] (fol. 7b-9b). The main work was composed in 829 [1426]. Title page lists other titles not present in the current volume.
Collation: Paper ; fol. 9 ; collation mark (fol. 7a) ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 19 lines per page in two columns
Description: MS in good condition. Rare.
Origin: Probably from XVth century.
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم * تضوع طيب المسك من عرف قطعتي * كضيبه روض عطرها فايح النشر ...
Colophon: تمت النسخة بحمد الله تعالى وعونه وحسن توفيقه.م
Binding Note
Later half-bound type III (without flap) binding in red fabric and red paper with block-pressed design.

Physical Characteristics

File Count
26

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/dc3890a9-088a-4df1-b3e7-f4e40f723f9a/manifest