Item Summary

Work on Islamic law. Incomplete at end with several lacunae and some leaves out of order.

Descriptive Information

Title
كتاب المحصول في اصول الفقه / تصنيف فخر الدين ابي عبد الله محمد بن عمر بن الحسين الرازى.
Transliterated Title
Kitāb al-Maḥṣūl fī uṣūl al-fiqh / taṣnīf Fakhr al-Dīn Abī ʻAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn ʻUmar ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Rāzī.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 2219Y
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/fn107157w
Publisher
[14th century]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1300-1399
Format
Manuscript
Extent
276 leaves : paper ; 240 x 175 (185-195 x 125-135) mm bound to 240 x 180 mm.
Provenance
Ownership statements: Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Shāfiʻī dated 990, Ibrāhīm ibn Aḥmad ibn al-Mullā Aḥmad, and obscured seal impression (fol.1a). Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Mach, R. Catalogue of Arabic Manuscripts (Yahuda Section), 855.
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
Inscription detailing abridgements and commentaries on the work (fol. 1a). Bookdealer's label: "ELS No. 2219".
Collation: Paper ; fol. 276 ; quires signed ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 29 lines per page.
Description: Rubricated ; some paper tinted red ; MS in good condition.
Brockelmann, GAL, I, 667 (no. 3); S I, 921.
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم اللهم اعن ويسر ... قال ... الکلام فى المقدمات وفيه فصول الفصل الاول فى تفسير اصول الفقه ...
Binding Note
Later full type II (with flap) binding in light brown leather. Blind-stamped mandorla with pendants and blind-tooled edging on covers. Similar decoration on flap. Red paper pastedowns. Not sewn.

Discovery Information

Subject
Islamic law—Interpretation and construction—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton

Physical Characteristics

File Count
286

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/a7d8dd84-c245-4622-baef-6375828a2c79/manifest