Item Summary

A work on Hanafite law and jurisprudence.

Descriptive Information

Title
كتاب مفتاح السعادة / الفه كمال الدين بن آسايش الشرواني.
Transliterated Title
Kitāb Miftāḥ al-saʻādah / allafahu Kamāl al-Dīn ibn Āsāyish al-Shirwānī.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 848H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dc37720r03k
Publisher
Baldat Shām Ṣafar 972 [September/October 1564]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1564
Format
Manuscript
Extent
268 leaves : paper ; 234 x 165 (152 x 97) mm bound to 232 x 173 mm.
Provenance
Seal impression (fol. 1b and 4a). Signatures: Ḥusayn al-Shirwānī dated 972; ... ibn Aḥmad al-Ṭarābulusī dated 972 (fol. 4a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1774.
Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), VI, p. 14.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from table of contents (fol. 1b).
Marginal notes and glosses. Title on lower edge of text block. Inscriptions (folios 1a and 4a). Table of contents (fol. 1b-2b). Following the colophon are several folios with notes and extracts.
Collation: Paper ; fol. i + 268 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 27 lines per page.
Description: Rubricated ; watermarks (animal?; crown?) ; MS in good condition, mended. MS is rare.
Origin: According to colophon copy completed Ṣafar 972 in Shām by ʻAbd al-Bāqī ibn Dūst Muḥammad al-Samarqandī (fol. 265a).
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله رب العالمين والعاقبة للمتقين ... وبعدهما فاني لما رأيت انواع العلوم کثيرة واهم الانواع بالمقصود الاخروي علم الفروع فاخترت منه مسايل الصلوة والصوم ...
Colophon: تم الکتاب بعون الملك الوهاب على يد العبد الضعيف اضعف العباد عبد الباقي ابن دوست محمد السمرقندي قدس الله روحه في شهر صفر يوم السبت سنة 972 في بلدة شام الشريف غفر الله [له] ولوالديه ولجميع المؤمنين والمؤمنات والمسلمين والمسلمات برحمتك يا ارحم الراحمين حسبنا الله ونعم الوکيل تم
Binding Note
Later type II (with flap) binding in brown leather. Blind-stamped mandorla with pendants and blind-tooled edging on covers. Similar decoration on flap. Endbands.

Discovery Information

Subject
Islamic law—Early works to 1800
Hanafites—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Headbands
Blind tooled bindings
Autographs
Stamps
Watermarks

Physical Characteristics

File Count
552

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

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