Item Summary

A compendium of Hanafite law.

Descriptive Information

Title
كتاب خزانة الفقه على مذهب الامام الاعظم ابي حنيفة النعمان بن الثابت / تأليف ابي الليث نصر بن محمد بن ابرهيم السمرقندي.
Transliterated Title
Kitāb Khizānat al-fiqh ʻalá madhhab al-Imām al-aʻẓam Abī Ḥanīfah al-Nuʻmān ibn al-Thābit / taʼlīf Abī al-Layth Naṣr ibn Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Samarqandī.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 832H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dctq57p333p
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1516
Extent
105 leaves : paper ; 174 x 128 (127 x 73) mm bound to 170 x 135 mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1670.
Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), III, 135/6.
Pertsch, Die orientalischen handschriften der Herzoglichen bibliothek zu Gotha, 991-3.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 2a).
Marginal notes and glosses. On the folio before title page is a table of contents (fol. 1b). On folio 1a, the title page, and following the colophon on folios 104a-b are extracts; short inscriptions on folio 105b.
Collation: Paper ; fol. i + 105 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 19 lines per page.
Description: Rubricated ; watermarks (later endpaper only: eagle) ; MS in fair condition, worm-eaten.
Origin: According to colophon copy completed Jumādá al-Ākhir 922 (fol. 104a).
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه نستعين الحمد لله رب العالمين والصلوة والسلام على نبيه محمد ... اعلم ان الفقه علم حسن وهو اجل من ساير العلوم وهو علم الدين والشريعة وقوام الشرايع ...
Colophon: تم الکتاب بعون الله الوهاب في شهر جمادى الاخر من شهور سنة اثني وعشرين وتسعمائة
Binding Note
Later type II (with flap) binding in paper. Blind-stamped mandorla under paper on upper cover.

Physical Characteristics

File Count
224

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

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