Item Summary

Commentary by the author on his Manār al-anwār fī uṣūl al-fiqh.

Descriptive Information

Title
كتاب الكشف في اصول الفقه
Transliterated Title
Kitāb al-Kashf fī uṣūl al-fiqh.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 3649Y
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/nz8062317
Publisher
[ 1337]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1337
Format
Manuscript
Extent
205, i leaves: paper ; 265 x 183 (188 x 135) mm. bound to 266 x 205 mm.
Provenance
Two ownership statements, one signed ʻUthmān Hadī ibn Muṣṭafá (fol. 1a), the other signed Nūḥādīʹzādah(?), with seal reading "al-Sayyid Aḥmad Nūrī" (fol. 3a). Seal on fol. 204a. Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Mach, R. Yahuda, 896
Brockelmann, C. GAL, II, 250/cmt. 1b
Brockelmann, C. GAL, SII, 263
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 3a).
25 lines per page. Written in medium small naskh in black ink with use of red. Ḥāshiyah on the margins. Fol. 3 is pasted on the next folio. Modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals (first fly-leaves with inscriptions are counted fol. 1-3). Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the upper cover: "Uṣūl thānī 55".
Copy completed on Friday 29 Jumādá al-Awwal 737 [January 3, 1337]. Copy of the mamlūk Āqbughābākī Ibn ʻAbd Allāh al-Malikī al-Nāṣīrī (colophon, fol. 205a).
Collation: Paper, fol. ii, 203, i ; iii (fly-leaves, with inscriptions ; fol. iii is pasted on the first fol. of the first quire) + 1¹⁰ 2-19¹⁰ 20¹⁰ (+2, fol. 194 and 205 + i ; catchword on the verso of each leaf, except central bifolio of each quire ; the quires are numbered using Arabic ordinals, in the form "thānī" (see fol. 14a).
Incipit: احمد الله ذا الحجة الباهرة والعزة القاهرة على نعمه العظام ... قال مولانا الصدر ... ابو البركات عبد الله بن احمد بن محمود النسفى ... لما رايت الهمم مايلة الى علم اصول الفقه
Explicit: ليس كذلك فهو مومن والجواب ان معناه انما الكاملو الايمان والحمد لله وحده
Binding Note
Upper and lower covers, fore-edge flap and envelope flap made of red leather. Black embossed paper pasted over covers and envelope flap. Traces of a leather embossed doublure on fol. 205b.

Discovery Information

Subject
Nasafī, ʻAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad -1310—Manār al-anwār
Islamic law—Interpretation and construction
Hanafites
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton

Physical Characteristics

File Count
211

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/7b53faed-2b8c-4534-87a9-a52a3a4c4500/manifest