Item Summary

Composite codex consisting of three distinct parts: the beginning of the Sharḥ Mukhtaṣar al-Qudūrī , a commentary by Mukhtār ibn Maḥmūd al-Zāhidī (d. 658/1259 or 60) on a compendium on Ḥanafī law (incomplete at end) ; a copy of the Sharḥ Taṣrīf al-ʻIzzī by al-Jurjānī, on grammar, and the beginning of a text explaining difficult words (fol. 60b), both written by the same hand ; and an added leaf with portion of a text mentioning the Iḥyāʼ ʻulūm al-dīn (fol. 61).

Descriptive Information

Title
كتاب زاهدي شرح قذوري. شريف شرح على العزي
Transliterated Title
Kitāb-i Zāhidī sharḥ-i Qudhūrī. Sharīf Sharḥ ʻalá al-ʻIzzī.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 5919Y
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/r207tr94z
Publisher
[1641?]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1641
Format
Manuscript
Extent
61 leaves: paper ; 210 x 160 mm. bound to 215 x 160 mm.
Provenance
Waqf statement dated 1262 [1845 or 6] on a piece of paper pasted on fol. 1a, in the name of al-Sayyid ʻAbd Allāh Adīb (Abdullah Edip), known as Jannatʹzādah (Cennet-zade), qāḍī of Erzurum, accompanied by his seal. Several ownership statements and impression of a circular seal with the figure of goat in purple ink, with inscription "356" in Western numerals on top on fol. 1a. Ownership statement with impression of a seal on fol. 19a. Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Mach, R. Yahuda, 989, 3508
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Contents
1. fol. 1a-18b: Kitāb-i Zāhidī sharḥ-i Qudhūrī [Sharḥ Mukhtaṣar al-Qudūrī
Kitāb al-Ṭahārah and first lines of Kitāb al-Ṣalāh] / [Mukhtār ibn Maḥmūd] al-Zāhidī.
Mach, R. Yahuda, no. 989.
2. fol. 19a-60b: Sharīf Sharḥ ʻalá al-ʻIzzī [Sharḥ Taṣrīf al-ʻIzzī] / [al-Jurjānī].
Mach, R. Yahuda, no. 3508.
3. fol. 60b: Kalimāt mushkilah.
4. fol. 61a-b: [Portion of a text].
Notes
Ms. composite codex.
Title from fol. 1a and fol. 19a.
Physical description: Text 1 written in medium large naskh in black ink with use of red, with 15 lines per page (written surface: 165 x 110 mm.), on European paper with watermark ; the text is framed within a single red line on fol. 1b-3a. Text 2 and 3 written in medium small round naskh in black ink with use of red (written surface: 155 x 105 mm.), on thin European paper with watermark. Several inscriptions on fol. 1a in Arabic and in Ottoman Turkish. Leaves of Text 2 stained with water (text legible).
Inscription in Roman script on the pastedown of the upper cover: "61 Bl.".
Origin: The copy of Text 2 is dated 1051 H. [1641 or 2] (colophon, fol. 60b). R. Mach reads "1151" [1738 or 9].
Binding Note
Coarse dark brown leather over paper pasteboards for upper and lower covers.

Discovery Information

Subject
Islamic law—History—13th century—Sources
Hanafites—History—13th century—Sources
Arabic language—Grammar—History—14th century—Sources
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Qudūrī, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad 972 or 973-1037—Mukhtaṣar al-Qudūrī

Physical Characteristics

File Count
66

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/3791c599-a930-4ef6-a4fa-87665c3fde50/manifest