Item Summary

Treatise on uṣūl al-fiqh, combining al-Bazdawī's Uṣūl, and al-Āmidī's Iḥkām.

Descriptive Information

Title
كتاب نهاية الوصول في علم الاصول / تأليف الشيخ فخر الدين.
Transliterated Title
Kitāb Nihāyat al-wuṣūl fī ʻilm al-uṣūl / taʼlīf al-Shaykh Fakhr al-Dīn.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 1770Y
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/5712m916j
Publisher
[1370]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1370
Format
Manuscript
Extent
179, i leaves: paper ; 270 x 185 (150 x 110) mm. bound to 270 x 190 mm.
Provenance
Several ownership statements on fol. 1a, in the name of Muḥammad ibn Khalīl ... al-Shāfiʻī; Muḥammad al-Ḥāfiẓ ibn Jamāl al-Dīn al-Qudsī(?), qāḍī in Ṭarābulus al-Shām; Ḥasan Paçacı Zade (dated 1307 H.). The latter is repeated on fol. 2a (with name reading Ḥasan ibn al-Ḥājj Maḥmūd ibn Salīm Paçacı Zade). Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Mach, R. Yahuda, 893
Brockelmann, C. GAL, I, 383 (49/2) ; SI
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from fol. 1a.
Physical description: 15 lines per page. Written in medium large naskh in black ink. The text is framed within a border consisting of two lines in red ink on fol. 2b. Dark cream paper, glossy, with laid and chain lines visible; some leaves orange-peach. Ḥāshiyah on the margins of the preamble. Small piece of paper with annotations placed between fol. 3 and 4. Several inscriptions on fol. 1a, including ownership statements. Quotation from al-Imām al-Rāzī on fol. 2a. The centre of each quire (mainly quinions) is marked by a sign resembling a "1" on the upper right corner of the double-page.
Origin: According to colophon, copy completed at the end (salkh) of Jumādá al-Ūlá 772 [Dec. 1370] (fol. 179b).
Incipit: الخير ذاتك اللهم يا واجب الوجود والفيض شعارك يا واسع الرحمة والجود ... واستصحب توفيقك فيما جمعه والفه قد منحتك ايها الطالب لنهاية الوصول الى علم الاصول بهذا الكتاب البديع فى معناه المطابق اسمه لمسماه
Explicit: والنصّ المختصر والمطول واحد والقلة والكثرة صورة و الترجيح ليس الا بالمعانى والله الموفق
Binding Note
Brown leather over paper pasteboards for upper and lower covers. Both covers are richly blind and gold-tooled with a central panel consisting of a geometrical pattern developping from a central roundel encompassing a six-pointed star on the upper cover, and from a roundel with radiants on the lower cover. Large border consisting of a running pattern of knot-work and fillets. Edges and back repaired. Embossed leather doublure, with a geometrical pattern.

Discovery Information

Subject
Bazdawī, ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad 1009 or 1010-1089 or 1090—Kanz al-wuṣūl ilá maʻrifat al-uṣūl
Āmidī, ʻAlī ibn Abī ʻAlī 1156 or 7-1233—Iḥkām fī uṣūl al-aḥkām
آمدي، علي بن ابي علي—احكام في اصول الاحكام
Islam—Doctrines—13th century
Islamic law—Interpretation and construction—13th century
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton

Physical Characteristics

File Count
198

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/dd8dc201-6a91-467d-a9a7-53dfc400c3fa/manifest