Item Summary

A metrical treatise in 2660 verses on the debated points of law.

Descriptive Information

Title
كتاب المنظومة في الفقه على مذهب الامام الاعظم ابي حنيفة النعمان بن ثابت الكوفي / تصنيف ابي حفص عمر النسفي الحنفي.
Transliterated Title
Kitāb al-Manẓūmah fī al-fiqh ʻalá madhhab al-Imām al-Aʻẓam Abī Ḥanīfah al-Nuʻmān ibn Thābit al-Kūfī / taṣnīf Abī Ḥafṣ ʻUmar al-Nasafī al-Ḥanafī.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 826H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcmg74qz413
Publisher
[15th century?]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1400-1499
Format
Manuscript
Extent
114 leaves : paper ; 176 x 122 (140 x 100) mm bound to 176 x 121 mm.
Provenance
Ownership signature: Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad al-[...] (fol. 1a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1624.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
A few marginal notes and glosses. Folio 1 is a replacement. Line drawings on pastedowns.
Collation: Paper ; fol. i + 114 ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 13 lines per page.
Description: Rubricated ; vowel signs ; MS in fair condition, some staining and mending.
Origin: Probably from XVth century.
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم رب يسر بسم الله له رب كل عبد * والحمد لله ولي الحمد * ثم التحيات بغير عدد * علي نبي المصطفي محمد * وبعد قد فال ابو حفص عمر * برحمه الله وعقباة عمر ...
Colophon: تم الكتاب وربنا محمود وله المكارم والعلي والجود وصلي الله عليه محمد واله وسلم تم
Binding Note
Later type III (without flap) binding in brown leather. Decorative blind-tooled edging. Covers in poor condition. Possibly a type II binding with flap removed.

Discovery Information

Subject
Islamic law—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Autographs
Blind tooled bindings

Physical Characteristics

File Count
238

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/ae272578-c170-457a-a2d4-efe7b7c80ecb/manifest