Item Summary

Compendium of the principal teachings of the four orthodox rites.

Descriptive Information

Title
كتاب عيون المذاهب الاربعة
Transliterated Title
Kitāb ʻUyūn al-madhāhib al-arbaʻah.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 120B
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/p8418q82d
Publisher
[ 14--?]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1400-1499
Format
Manuscript
Extent
i, 121, i leaves : paper ; 215 x 158 (125 x 95) mm. bound to 218 x 170 mm.
Provenance
Ownership statement in the name of ʻĪsá ibn Ḥusayn and inscription stating that this ms. was bought in the Madrasat Ibn Ayyūb al-Anṣārī on fol. 1a. Acquired from Murād Bey Bārūdī, Beirut, 1925.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett coll., 1644
Brockelmann, C. GAL, II, 198 (3/1) ; SII
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
Physical description: 13 lines per page. Written in medium small naskh in black ink (faded to brown) with use of red. Thick soft cream paper with laid and chain lines visible. Marginal annotations, apparently by the same hand as the main text. A few slips of paper with annotations placed between the original leaves. Table of contents on fol. 1a, followed by verses of poetry. Apparently one leaf missing between fol. 1 and 2 and several missing beween fol. 76 and 77 (see foliation in Arabic numerals and text). Mold.
Origin: The copy is not dated. Apparently 15th century.
Incipit: الحمد لله باسط الارض ورافع السما وباعث الرسل والانبيا عليهم السلام خصوصا على سيدنا محمد زبدة الاصفياء ... وبعد فانى لما رايت علم الفقه اعظم العلوم واحوجها فى كيفية سلوك المنهج القويم والصراط المستقيم اردت ان اجمع فيه مختصرا فى المذاهب الاربعة
Binding Note
Brown leather over paper pasteboards for upper and lower covers, fore-edge flap and envelope flap. Paper on covers. Moder paper pastedown and free endpaper. Leather doublure on fore-edge flap.

Discovery Information

Subject
Islamic law—Interpretation and construction—14th century
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton

Physical Characteristics

File Count
134

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

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