Item Summary

A collection of partial works and notes on Islamic law.

Descriptive Information

Title
لسان الحكام ... [الخ.]
Transliterated Title
Lisān al-ḥukkām ... [etc.]
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 288L
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dck3569h827
Publisher
[17th century?]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1600-1699
Format
Manuscript
Extent
149 leaves : paper ; 150 x 103 (100 x 55) mm bound to 210 x 155 mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1904.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 2092.
Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), V, p. 310; VI, pp. 389/90; III, p. 22.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Contents
1. fol. 1a-1b: [Inscription]
2. fol. 2a-81b: Lisān al-ḥukkām. A work on jurisprudence by Abū al-Walīd Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad, known as Ibn al-Shiḥnah al-Ḥalabī. Table of contents (fol. 2a-2b). Incomplete at end.
3. fol. 82a-83a: Fragment from Kitāb al-Nawāzil min al-fatāwī. A work on law by Abū al-Layth al-Samarqandī.
4. fol. 83b: [Extracts]
5. fol. 84a-130a: Kitāb al-Ḥudūd wa-al-aḥkām / Muṣannifak. A compendium of jurisprudence. Preceded by a table of contents (fol. 84a).
6. fol. 130b-132b: [Fragments]
7. fol. 133a-139b: [Commentary on al-Hidāyah]. Fragment beginning with Faṣl fī kayfīyat al-yamīn wa-al-istiḥlāf.
8. fol. 141a-149b: [Notes and extracts on law]
Notes
Ms. composite codex.
Marginal notes. Inscriptions on pastedowns.
Title from caption of first work (fol. 3b).
Collation: Paper ; fol. 149 + ii ; catchwords ; foliation in ink using Hindu-Arabic numerals with several gaps and some pages out of order ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 21 lines per page ; some folios frame-ruled in red.
Description: Rubricated ; some paper has slight red cast ; watermarks (circlular design with trefoil; roman-alphabet countermark initials "BV" with trefoil; cross?; three hats; crown) ; MS in good condition.
Origin: Probably from the XVIIth century.
Incipit: [لسان الحكام] الحمد لله العادل فى حكمه القاضى بين عباده بعلمه ... وبعد فلما ابتليت بالقضاء وجرر الحكم ... -- [كتاب النوازل] ... وان كانت حوافرها[؟] الى الجدار فله منعه وسئل الفقيه ابو جعغر ... -- [كتاب الحدود] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه نستعين الحمد لله الذى انزل على عبده الحدود والاحكام ... وبعد بفقول العبد ... على بن محى الدين بن مسعود الشاهوردى البستامى ... لما شاهدت اهل الزمان ... -- [Commentary on al-Hidāyah] رضى الله تعالى عليكم بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم فصل فى كيفية اليمين والاستحلات لما فرغ من دكر نفيس اليمين والمواضع ...
Colophon: [لسان الحكام] ءءء -- [كتاب النوازل] بنقل من كتاب النوازل السمرقندى واللهالم؟ الى سبيل الرشاد وعليه ... -- [كتاب الحدود] قد وقع الفراغ من تحرير هذه الرسالة ... عشر من شوال المحرم لسنة اربع واربعين والف ... -- [Commentary on al-Hidāyah] ... الذى ذكرت فى مسئلة الجامع الصغير ...
Binding Note
Later type III (without flap) binding in dark brown leather. Blind-stamped mandorla and blind-tooled edging. Blue marbled pastedowns. Endbands.

Discovery Information

Subject
Fatwas—Early works to 1800
Hanafites—Early works to 1800
Islamic law—Early works to 1800
Shafiites—Early works to 1800
Marghīnānī, ʻAlī ibn Abī Bakr -1196 or 1197—Hidāyah
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Watermarks
Blind tooled bindings
Headbands
Colored papers

Physical Characteristics

File Count
308

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/e12b9df4-9e7a-4ad8-8325-d4a851473b38/manifest