Item Summary

Collection containing a treatise on the principles of jurisprudence according to the Ḥanafite school with a commentary.

Descriptive Information

Title
كتاب المغني من اصول الفقه مع شرح ... الخوارزمي
Transliterated Title
Kitāb al-Mughnī min uṣūl al-fiqh maʻa sharḥ ... al-Khwārizmī.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 53Y
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/5138jh474
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1400-1699
Extent
247 leaves : paper ; 267 x 184 (150 x 95) mm. bound to 265 x 185 mm.
Provenance
Two impressions of an oval stamp on fol. 49a. Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Mach, R. Yahuda, 889, 890
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Contents
1. fol. 2a-139b : Matn Mughnī min al-uṣūl / [ʻUmar ibn Muḥammad al-Khabbāzī].
Mach, R. Yahuda, no. 889.
2. fol. 140a-245b : Sharḥ al-Mughnī lil-Khabbāzī / Manṣūr ibn Aḥmad al-Qāʼānī [incomplete at end].
Mach, R. Yahuda, no. 890.
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from tail of text block.
Physical description: 12 and 27 lines per page. Written in medium small naskh(?) in black ink with use of red. Thick paper, glossy, hardly translucid, with a few chain lines visible ; some leaves of European paper with watermark (particularly in first part). Gloss on the margin and between the lines of the main text. Note mentioning a price on fol. 1a. Kabīkaj, short texts, and inscriptions on fol. 140a.
Chiefly quaternions in first part ; quinions in the second part ; catchword on the verso of each leaf.
Inscription in Arabic numerals on a label pasted on the pastedown of the upper cover: "40".
Binding Note
Brown leather over paper pasteboards, with flap. Blind-tooled.

Physical Characteristics

File Count
252

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/44add355-e547-4479-b67d-a74741b0f965/manifest