Item Summary

A Hanafite treatise on jurisprudence based on the Mukhtaṣar by al-Qudūrī (d. 428/1037) and the Manẓūmah by al-Nasafī (d. 537/1142)

Descriptive Information

Title
مجمع البحرين.
Transliterated Title
Majmaʻ al-baḥrayn.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 839H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dc8s45qn08f
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1400-1499
Extent
150 leaves : paper ; 265 x 180 (170 x 110) mm bound to 264 x 186 mm.
Provenance
Ownership signature: Fayḍ Allāh al-Bukhārī[?] with his seal impression (fol. [ii]a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1678.
Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), V, pp. 396-8.
Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, III, pp. 109/10.
Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 4569-70.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from lower edge of text block.
Heavily annotated throughout with marginal and interlinear notes and glosses. Lines of verse, extracts and other inscriptions on folios [ii]a-1a, 148b and 149b. Inserted notes.
Collation: Paper ; fol. ii (later) + 150 (150 is later) ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 11-13 lines per page.
Description: Rubricated ; some vowel signs ; MS in good condition.
Origin: Probably from the XVth century. Copied by ʻAbd al-Karīm ibn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn al-Ladrāwī (fol. 148a).
Colophon: تمت [تم] الکتاب بعون الملك الوهاب بحمد الله تعالى وحسن توفيقه وصلّى الله على سيدنا محمد واله وصحبه اجمعين. وقع الفراغ منه عن [على] يدي العبد الضعيف عبد الکريم ابن محمد بن حسين اللدراوي غفرالله له ولوالديه واحسن اليهما واليه
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم رب تهم بالخير الحمد لله جاعل العلماء ... اما بعد فهذا کتاب يصفر للحافظ حجمه ويغرز للضابط علمه ...
Binding Note
Later type II (with flap) binding in brown leather and marbled paper. Green paper pastedowns. Endbands.

Physical Characteristics

File Count
358

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/3af0f6db-4874-49a5-a2ce-217414080238/manifest