Item Summary

A redaction of al-Jāmiʻ al-ṣaghīr, a corpus of Hanafite law by Abū ʻAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan al-Shaybānī.

Descriptive Information

Title
كتاب شرح الجامع الصغير.
Transliterated Title
Kitāb Sharḥ al-Jāmiʻ al-ṣaghīr.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 830H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcbz60d7563
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1379
Extent
242 leaves : paper ; 270 x 176 (140 x 100) mm bound to 267 x 176 mm.
Provenance
Obscured signature dated 1170; ṭughrā; purchase statement signed Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq ibn ʻAqīl (fol. 1a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1672.
Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), II, p. 557.
Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, III, p. 32.
Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 4437.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
Marginal and interlinear notes and glosses. The first folio was supplied by a later hand. Inscriptions, including kabīkaj (invocation against bookworms), on fol. 241b-242b.
Collation: Paper ; fol. 242 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 11 lines per page ; ruled.
Description: Rubricated ; some vowel signs ; MS in good condition, mended.
Origin: According to colophon copy completed 781 by ʻAbd al-Laṭīf ibn ʻUthmān ibn Zakarīyā ibn ʻAlī ibn Isrāʼīl (fol. 241a).
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله رب العالمين والصلوة والسلام ...اما بعد فان مشايخنا رحمه الله كانوا يعظمون هذا الكتاب تعظيما ويقدمونه علي سآير الكتب تقديما حتى قالوا لا ينبغى لاحد ان يتقلد القضا ...
Colophon: تم هذا الکتاب بعون الله وحسن توفيقه ... حرره عبده الضعيف المحتاج الى رحمة الله تعالى عبد اللطيف بن عثمان ابن زکريا بن علي بن اسرائيل غفرالله له ولوالديه ولجميع المسلمين والمسلمات والمؤمنين والمؤمنات برحمتك يا ارحم الراحمين سنة احدى وثمانين وسبعمائة
Binding Note
Later type III (without flap) limp binding in red leather. Blind-tooled edging on covers. Green paper pastedowns.

Physical Characteristics

File Count
492

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/f099b3fb-c9ed-4d4c-8c22-6bdbcb6f8c7a/manifest