Item Summary

Reworking of al-Jāmiʻ al-ṣaghīr by al-Shaybānī, a work on Ḥanafī fiqh.

Descriptive Information

Title
كتاب جامع الصغير
Transliterated Title
Kitāb Jāmiʻ al-ṣaghīr.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 3690Y
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/rr172081f
Publisher
[1469]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1469
Format
Manuscript
Extent
211 leaves : paper ; 270 x 175 (165 x 105) mm. bound to 270 x 185 mm.
Provenance
Ownership statement in the name of Aḥmad Najīb ibn Aḥmad Ṭāhir, dated Rabīʻ I [12]81[Aug.-Sept. 1864] on fol. 1a. Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Mach, R. Yahuda, 976
Brockelmann, C. GAL, I, 172 (3/IV. cmt.2) ; SI
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
Incipit: الحمد لله رب العالمين والصلوة والسلام على خير خليقة محمد وآله وصحبه الطيّبين الطاهرين قال الشيخ الامام الاجل حسام الدين عمر بن عبد العزيز البخارى نعمه الله اما بعد فانّ مشايخنا رحمهم الله كانوا يعظمون هذا الكتاب تعظيما ويقدمون على ساير الكتب
Explicit: ويصير من فروض الاعيان ولو اشترى بثمن مجهول معاين يسقط به حق الشفعة
Physical description: 13 lines per page. Written in black ink with use of red. Light cream paper with laid lines and pulp visible. Marginal and interlinear ḥāshiyah. Several inscriptions on fol. 1a, including a note on the number of leaves in the copy. Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the upper cover: "116". Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the pastedown of the upper cover: "Ḥāʼ 944".
Origin: Copied by ʻAlī ibn ʻUthmān in Ramaḍān 873 (colophon, fol. 211b).
Binding Note
Modern binding, consisting of dark purple cloth over pasteboards for upper and lower covers. Light purple paper pastedowns and free endpaper.

Discovery Information

Subject
Islamic law
Hanafites
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Shaybānī, Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan approximately 750-804 or 805—Jāmiʻ al-ṣaghīr fī al-fiqh Abridgment

Physical Characteristics

File Count
223

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/3e8be968-9b93-4fc6-a05b-64fa8a447215/manifest