Descriptive Information

Title

كتاب مجمع البحرين وملتقى النيرين

Transliterated Title

Kitāb Majmaʻ al-baḥrayn wa-multaqá al-nayyirayn.

Call Number

Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 487Y

Identifier

http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/mc87ps87v

Publisher

Jerusalem, [1450]

Language

Arabic

Date Created

1450

Format

Manuscript

Extent

138 leaves: paper ; 180 x 135 (112 x 85) mm. bound to 180 x 135 mm.

Provenance

Reading statement in the name of Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Ṭarābulusī al-Ḥanafī, disciple (tilmīdh) of al-Shaykh Burhān al-Dīn ibn ...? al-Ḥanafī (fol. 138b). On the same fol., ownership statement apparently by the same hand (Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf al-Ṭarābulusī al-Ḥanafī), with indication of a price, in Damascus. Several ownership statements on fol. 1a and 138a, most of them obliterated, one dated 3 Dhū al-Qaʻdah 1084 [Feb. 9, 1674] (fol. 138a). Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.

Source Acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

Mach, R. Yahuda, 1055

Brockelmann, C. GAL, I, 383 (49/1)

Rights Statement

No Known Copyright

Notes

Ms. codex.

Title from title page (fol. 1a). The second part of the title (after "al-baḥrayn") is written in a smaller script in red ink.

Physical description: 15 lines per page. Written in clear small square naskh in black ink with use of red for key-words and headings. Red teardrops in groups of three for text-stops. Thick cream paper, glossy, with pulp and chain lines visible. Fol. 3, 8, 55-56, 95-96, 115-116, 124-127 are later replacements. Quinions. Several inscriptions, including ownership statements, on fol. 1a (most of them obliterated).

Collation: Paper, fol. 138 ; 1-13¹⁰ 14¹⁰ (-2, after fol. 138) ; catchword on the verso of each leaf.

Inscription in Roman script in red pencil on the pastedown of the upper cover: "50 Aus Y".

Origin: Copy completed in Madīnat al-Quds, on Friday 15 Jumādá al-Ūlá 854 [June 26, 1450] by Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Sūdānī al-Ḥanafī (colophon, fol. 137b).

Patronage: Copied for (bi-rasm) Muḥyī al-Dīn Yaḥyá al-Ḥanafī al-Maqdisī (colophon, fol. 137b).

Incipit: الحمد لله جاعل العلماء انجما للاهتداء زاهرة واعلامًا للاقتداء طاهرةً ... اما بعد فهذا كتاب يصغر للحافظ حجمه

Explicit: و من صالح من الورثة [137ب] او الغرمآ على شيء منها طرح ثم قسم الباقى على سهام من بقي منهم هذا اخر مجمع البحرين وملتقى النيرين وقد اتيت به على ما اسسته من تلك القواعد ... والله هو المشكور على افاضة نعمه والمسول خاتمه الشعادة وبفضله وكرمه وحسبنا الله ونعم الوكيل

Binding Note

Brown leather over paper pasteboards for upper and lower covers. Both covers are similarly blind-tooled with a border consisting of a running pattern, fillets and guilloche, and a central panel with a large mandorla outlined by a fillet extending on the vertical axis to form a large three sepalled calix on each side of the mandorla. Rebacked.

Discovery Information

Subject

Islamic law—History—13th century—Sources

Hanafites—History—13th century—Sources

Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton

Physical Characteristics

File Count

143

Institutional Information

Collection

Manuscripts of the Islamic World

IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/972029fa-35df-49f2-8c6e-112b83a1b64c/manifest

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