Item Summary

Commentary on al-Mughnī fī uṣūl al-fiqh by al-Khabbāzī (d. 691/1292).

Descriptive Information

Title
كتاب قاءاني شرح مغني في اصول الفقه
Transliterated Title
Kitāb Qāʼānī Sharḥ Mughnī fī uṣūl al-fiqh.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 170B
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/bc386m83d
Publisher
[1472]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1472
Format
Manuscript
Extent
163 leaves: paper ; 270 x 180 (190 x 115) mm. bound to 273 x 190 mm.
Provenance
Ownership statement in the name of ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʻUthmān ibn Muṣṭafá and of ʻAlī al-ʻĀkif (the latter with stamp) on fol. 1a. Acquired by Robert Garrett from the books of Murād Bey al-Bārūdī (Beirut), 1925.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett coll., 1716
Brockelmann, C. GAL, I, 382 (48/1.cmt. a) ; SI, 657
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from inscription on fol. 1a.
Physical description: 29 lines per page. Written in small casual naskh in black ink. Marginal annotations in the same hand as the main text. Thick eam paper, glossy, hardly translucid, with laid and chain lines visible. Inscriptions on the pastedown of the upper cover and on the two first leaves, including ownership statements. Title on tail of text block. Foliation in pencil using Western numerals (omits first fol.).
Collation: Paper, fol. 163 ; 1-15¹⁰ 16¹² (+1 end of quire) ; catchword on the verso of each leaf.
Origin: According to colophon, copy completed at the end ("salkh") of Ramaḍān 876 [March 1472] (fol. 160b).
Incipit: الحمد لله الذى تجلى على بعض عباده المخلصين المخلصين عن شرك الشرك الخفى باسمه الواسع العليم وحلى ظواهرهم وبواطنهم بالتجليات العرفانية القرانية ... باب الامر قدم الشيخ رحمه الله باب الامر والنهى على ساير الابواب اعتناء بشانهما لانهما مدار التكليف
Explicit: جعلهما مجازا عنها اولى من جعلهما مجازا عن غيرها والله اعلم الحمد لله اولا واخرا وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد واله وصحبه ظاهرا وباطنا
Binding Note
Brown leather over paper pasteboards for upper and lower covers, fore-edge flap and envelope flap. The lower cover has a central blind-tooled mandorla filled with impressions of a small flower stamp and a large outer border consisting of fillets and running patterns. Apparently originally gold-tooled. Partially covered by repair.

Discovery Information

Subject
Khabbāzī, ʻUmar ibn Muḥammad 1231 or 1232-1292—Mughnī fī uṣūl al-fiqh—Commentaries—14th century
Islamic law—Interpretation and construction—14th century
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton

Physical Characteristics

File Count
168

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/5265e54e-24cc-4c80-8e01-079353201774/manifest