Item Summary

An abridgment of al-Muqniʻ, a work on Hanbalite law by Ibn Qudāmah.

Descriptive Information

Title
كتاب مختصر المقنع / للشيخ شرف الدين موسى الحجاوي.
Transliterated Title
Kitāb Mukhtaṣar al-Muqniʻ / lil-Shaykh Sharaf al-Dīn Mūsá al-Ḥujāwī.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 907H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcwp988x28t
Publisher
24 Muḥarram 1024 [February 23, 1615]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1615
Format
Manuscript
Extent
75 leaves : paper ; 206 x 153 (160 x 120) mm bound to 205 x 154 mm.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1845.
Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, III, p. 298.
Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 4504.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
Marginal notes and glosses. Insert.
Collation: Paper ; 75 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 19 lines per page.
Description: Rubricated ; watermarks (anchor) ; MS in good condition; mended.
Origin: According to colophon copy completed 24 Muḥarram 1024 by Aḥmad ibn Badr al-Dīn ibn ʻAbd al-Qādir ibn al-Naqīb (fol. 75a).
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه نستعين رب سير الحمد لله حمدا لا ينفد افضل ما ينبغي ... اما بعد فهذا مختصر في الفقه من مقنع الامام الموفق ابى محمد ...
Colophon: وکان الفراغ من هذه النسخة المبارکة المشرفة النافعة لمن التجى [التجا] اليها رابع عشرين شهرالمحرم المبارك من شهورسنة 1024 کتبه الفقيرالحقيرالمدعي بالعجز والتقصيرالراجي عفو ربه الکريم من تعليقه. کتبه احمد بن الفقيربدرالدين بن الفقيرعبد القادر بن النقيب غفرالله له... ويدعو له بالمغفرة
Binding Note
Later quarter-bound type III (without flap) binding in red leather and brown marbled paper.
Ownership signature: ʻAbd al-Laṭīf Abī ʻAbd al-Karīm from Damascus dated 1118 (fol. 1a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Discovery Information

Subject
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Islamic law—Early works to 1800
Hanbalites—Early works to 1800
Autographs
Watermarks

Physical Characteristics

File Count
160

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

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