Item Summary

A compendium of jurisprudence according to the Hanafite school of law with interlinear Turkish translation in red.

Descriptive Information

Title
كتاب تحفة الملوك.
Transliterated Title
Kitāb Tuḥfat al-mulūk.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 242L
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcg732dp313
Publisher
962 [1554 or 1555]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1554
Format
Manuscript
Extent
213 leaves : paper ; 267 x 177 (200 x 125) mm bound to 265 x 179 mm.
Provenance
Ownership signatures: Muḥammad Ṣādiq, Bakr? ibn Aḥmad al-Ḥijjāj (fol. 1a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1904.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1717.
Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), II, p. 240.
Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 4517/8.
Catalogue des manuscrits arabes de la Bibliothèque Nationale, 873.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
Folios 169-204 are European paper and were supplied by a later hand and lack the Turkish translation. Short prayers and signatures (fol. 1a).
Collation: Paper ; fol. 213 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 5 lines per page ; ruled.
Description: Vowel signs ; MS in good condition.
Origin: According to colophon copy completed 962? (fol. 213b).
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله وسلام على عباده الذين اسطفى هذا مختصر في علم الفقه جمعته لبعض اخواني في الدين ...
Colophon: والاستعداد للقاء الله عزّوجل ونعيم الاخرة والله اعلم بالصواب واليه المرجع والمآب تمت سنة 962
Binding Note
Later type III (without flap) binding in brown leather. Blind-and gold-tooled mandorla with pendants and decorative border.

Discovery Information

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

Physical Characteristics

File Count
434

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/a078104d-3eb0-4a6f-8986-3a7189976a01/manifest