Item Summary

Treatise on the principles of jurisprudence according to the Ḥanafite school.

Descriptive Information

Title
كتاب المغني في الاصول / تأليف الامام العالم العلامة جلال الدين عمر بن محمد بن عمر الخبازي الحنفي
Transliterated Title
Kitāb al-Mughnī fī al-uṣūl / taʼlīf al-Imām al-ʻālim al-ʻallāmah Jalāl al-Dīn ʻUmar ibn Muḥammad ibn ʻUmar al-Khabbāzī al-Ḥanafī.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 175B
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/np193c796
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1456
Extent
i, 129, i leaves : paper ; 255 x 170 (130 x 95) mm. bound to 270 x 180 mm.
Provenance
Impression of a stamp in the name of Ibrāhīm Shawqī on fol. 8a. Acquired by Robert Garrett from Brill, 1925, from the books of Murād Bey al-Bārūdī (Beirut).
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett coll., 1715
Brockelmann, C. GAL, I, 382 (48/1) ; SI
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from fol. 1a (later replacement).
Physical description: 13 lines per page. Written in medium large naskh in black ink. Larger script for headings. Soft light cream paper with laid lines and pulp visible. Fibers visible on the surface. Hāshiyah on the margins (rare after fol. 44a). Fol. 1-7 are later replacements on thick European paper with watermark. On fol. 129b is an obliterated inscription in Ottoman Turkish.
Origin: Copy completed in 861 H. by Jalāl al-Dīn ibn Aḥmad ibn Dalanjī (colophon, fol. 129a, followed by verses of poetry in Persian).
Incipit: الحمد لله رب العالمين والعاقبة للمتقين والصلاة على رسوله محمد واله اجمعين باب الامر هو قول القائل لمن دونه افعل ولا تتوقف حقيقته
Beginning of original copy (fol. 8a): القضآ فالمحض الكامل ما يدويه الانسان بوصفه الذي شرع
Explicit: الظرف حقيقة يصير كناية عن الشرط مجازًا تمت الكتاب
Binding Note
Modern binding with flap, consisting of soft brown leather over paper pasteboards for upper and lower covers, fore-edge flap and envelope flap, with a blind-stamped and color painted panel on each cover. Paper pastedown and free endpaper.

Physical Characteristics

File Count
135

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/3a52ef52-897f-42ac-a86c-1f1d750aaec2/manifest