Item Summary

Elegant copy of a compendium on Ḥanafī law, based on the Mukhtaṣar by al-Qudūrī (d. 428/1037) and the Manẓūmah by al-Nasafī (d. 537/1142), completed in 690/1291 (see GAL).

Descriptive Information

Title
كتاب مجمع البحرين وملتقى النيرين / للامام العال العلامة مبين الفروع والاصول الجامع بين المنقول والمعقول مظفر الدين احمد بن علي الساعاتي البعلبكي رحمة الله عليه.
Transliterated Title
Kitāb Majmaʻ al-baḥrayn wa-multaqá al-nayyirayn / lil-Imām al-ʻālim al-ʻallāmah mubīn al-furūʻ wa-al-uṣūl al-jāmiʻ bayna al-manqūl wa-al-maʻqūl Muẓaffar al-Dīn Aḥmad ibn ʻAlī al-Sāʻātī al-Baʻlabakī raḥmat Allāh ʻalayh.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 526Y
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/rx913p958
Publisher
[1479]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1479
Extent
160 leaves: paper ; 183 x 130 (115 x 76) mm. bound to 185 x 140 mm.
Provenance
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 illuminated title page (fol. 1a).
Physical description: 13 lines per page. Written in small square naskh in black ink with use of red for headings, re-inking, etc. The text is vocalized. Red teardrop text-stops. On the two first pages of the text (fol. 1b-2a), frame in gold outlined in black, with headings in gold thulth outlined in black. Illuminated title page in blue, red and gold on fol. 1a. Thick dark cream paper, opaque, with laid and chain lines, and pulp, visible ; frame-ruled (note the ruling for the ḥāshiyah). Fol. 160 is a later addition. Ḥāshiyah on the margins.
Origin: Copy completed on Wednesday 10 Dhū al-Qaʻdah 883 [Feb. 1479] by Muḥammad Abū al-Luṭf ibn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn ʻImrān (colophon, fol. 159b). Collation statement on the margin of fol. 159b, stating that the text was collated on the copy of Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad Abū al-Jawd al-Ghazzī, known as Ibn al-Maghribī, itself collated on a copy written by Nāṣir al-Dīn Muḥammad al-Ayāsī, from an autograph copy.
Incipit: الحمد لله جاعل العلماء انجما للاهتداء زاهرة واعلامًا للاقتداء طاهرةً ... اما بعد فهذا كتاب يصغر للحافظ حجمه
Explicit: و من صالح من الورثة ار الغرماء على شيء منها طرح ثم قسم الباقى على سهام من بقي منهم ه قال المصنّف رحمه الله تعالي هذا اخر مجمع البحرين وملتقى النيرين وقد اتيت به على ما اسسته من تلك القواعد ... [159ب] ... والله المسئول خاتمة السعادة بفضله وكرمه وصلّى الله على سيدنا محمد وعلى اله وصحبه وسلّم وكرّم وعظّم
Binding Note
Dark brown leather over paper pasteboards for upper and lower covers, fore-edge flap and envelope flap. The covers and envelope flap are similarly blind tooled and stamped, with a border consisting of fillets, with inner corners outlined by fillets, and a stamped mandorla on the covers and a stamped medallion on the point of the envelope flap. Spine wanting.

Physical Characteristics

File Count
322

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/f5d71bba-ce2b-45a7-b4cc-5bed0d132b61/manifest