Item Summary

Collection of ordinances according to traditions, from Muslim and al-Bukhārī.

Descriptive Information

Title
كتاب عمدة الاحكام / تأليف تقي الدين ابو محمد عبد الغني بن عبد الواحد بن علي بن سرور المقدسي الحنبلي.
Transliterated Title
Kitāb ʻUmdat al-aḥkām / taʼlīf Taqī al-Dīn Abū Muḥammad ʻAbd al-Ghanī ibn ʻAbd al-Wāḥid ibn ʻAlī ibn Surūr al-Maqdisī al-Ḥanbalī.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 714H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dczs25xm45v
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1400-1499
Extent
68 leaves : paper ; 175 x 133 (121 x 93) mm bound to 174 x 139 mm.
Provenance
Ownership signatures: ʻUmar al-Ḥanbalī ibn Muṣṭafá al-Rūmānī dated 1153, .. ibn Jamāl al-Dīn .. (fol. 1a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1378.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
A few marginal notes. MS in good condition; mended.
Collation: Paper ; fol. 68 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 15 lines per page.
Description: Rubricated ; overwriting and other use of red ; MS in good condition; mended.
Origin: Probably from XVth century.
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله الملك الجبار الواحد القهار واشهد ان لا اله الا الله وحده لا شريك له رب السموات والارض ...اما بعد فان بعض اخواتي سالني اختصار جملة في احاديث الاحكام ...
Colophon: وصلي الله علي سيدنا محمد واله وصحبه وسلم
Binding Note
Later type II (with flap) binding in brown leather. Blind-tooled central medallion and blind-tooled and blind-stamped decorative edging. Leather doublures with block-pressed design. Flap missing.

Physical Characteristics

File Count
144

Institutional Information

Collection
Princeton’s Holdings of the al-Madani Library
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/dffbc75d-4f0d-4550-b14b-883871beb54a/manifest