Descriptive Information

Title

مختصر في علم الفقه تحفة الملوك

Transliterated Title

Mukhtaṣar fī ʻilm al-fiqh Tuḥfat al-Mulūk.

Call Number

Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 791Y

Identifier

http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/j6731636b

Publisher

[1739 or 1740]

Language

Arabic

Date Created

1739

Format

Manuscript

Extent

73 leaves: paper ; 218 x 145 (161 x 88) mm. bound to 218 x 150 mm.

Provenance

Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.

Source Acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

Mach, R. Yahuda, 1058

Brockelmann, C. GAL, I, 50/1 ; S1

Rights Statement

No Known Copyright

Notes

Ms. codex.

Title from fol. 1a (later hand, purple ink).

Physical description: 11 lines per page. Written in medium large naskh in black ink with use of red. The text is framed within a single red line. Interlinear translation in Ottoman Turkish. European paper with watermark. Fol. 1 is a later addition. Modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals (omits the two first leaves).

Collation: Paper, fol. 73 ; i (later added fly-leaf ; fol. 1) + 1¹⁰ 2¹⁰ (+1, fol. 17) 3-6¹⁰ 7¹² + i (later added fly-leaf; fol. 73) ; catchword on the verso of each leaf.

Inscription in Arabic script on fol. 1a: "Ismāʻīl 60" (erased). Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the upper cover: "216". Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the pastedown of the upper cover: "Ḥāʾ".

Origin: According to colophon, copied in 1152 H. [Mach reads 1153] (fol. 71b; in Ottoman Turkish).

Incipit: الحمد لله والسلام على عباده الذين اصطفى هذا مختصر فى علم الفقه جمعته لبعض اخوانى فى الدين بقدر ما وسعه وقته واقتصرت فيه على عشرت كتاب هي اهمّ كتب الفقه له واحقها بالتقديم

Explicit: ولقد وصينا الذين اوتوا الكتاب من قبلكم واياكم ان اتقوا الله فعليك ايها الاخ بالتقوى والاستعداد للقاء الله عز وجل ونعيم الاخرة والله اعلم بالصواب واليه المرجع والمأب وحسبنا الله ونعم الوكيل و صلى الله على سيدنا محمد وآله وصحبه وسلم تمت الكتاب باعانة الملك الوهاب

Binding Note

Brown leather over paper pasteboards for upper and lower covers, fore-edge flap and envelope flap. Both covers are blind-tooled and stamped with a central lobed mandorla and an outer border consisting of fillets. Yellow paper pastedowns.

Discovery Information

Subject

Islamic law—Early works to 1800

Islamic law—History—13th century—Sources

Hanafites

Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton

Manuscripts, Turkish—New Jersey—Princeton

Physical Characteristics

File Count

77

Institutional Information

Collection

Manuscripts of the Islamic World

IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/169701ce-769a-4cbf-9400-596afb20ea74/manifest

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