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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
- Format
- Manuscript
- 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.
Discovery Information
Physical Characteristics
- File Count
- 358
Institutional Information
- Collection
- Manuscripts of the Islamic World
- IIIF Manifest URL
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https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/3af0f6db-4874-49a5-a2ce-217414080238/manifest














