Item Summary

The author's summary of his Muntahá al-suʾāl wa-al-amal fī ʻilmay al-uṣūl wa-al-jadal, a treatise on Malikī law. This copy mentions in the colophon how its exemplar is related to an autograph copy (see fol. 63b).

Descriptive Information

Title
مختصر منتهى السؤل والامل في علمي الاصول والجدل / تأليف الامام العلامة المحقق المدقق ابي عمرو عثمان بن عمر ابن الحاجب قدس الله روحه
Transliterated Title
Mukhtaṣar Muntahá al-suʾl wa-al-amal fī ʻilmay al-uṣūl wa-al-jadal / taʾlīf al-Imām al-ʻallāmah al-muḥaqqiq al-mudaqqiq Abī ʻAmr ʻUthmān ibn ʻUmar Ibn al-Ḥājib qaddasa Allāhu rūḥah.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 3998Y
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/2b88qf77v
Publisher
[1344]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1344
Extent
63 leaves : paper ; 178 x 130 (108 x 80) mm. bound to 178 x 130 mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Mach, R. Yahuda, 864
Brockelmann, C. GAL, I, 306 (VIII. Auszug vom Verf.) ; SI
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
Physical description: 17 lines per page. Written in medium large naskh in black ink with use of red. Cream paper, glossy. According to catchwords, some leaves are wanting. Stained with water.
Inscription on a label pasted on pastedown of the upper cover: "103Y".
Origin: According to colophon, copy completed on Saturday 10 Rabīʻ al-Ākhar 745 [Aug. 21, 1344] by ʻUthmān [--] al-Anṣārī, known as Ibn ...? (fol. 63b).
Incipit: قال الشيخ الامام العالم العلامة جمال الدين ابو عمرو عثمان بن عمر بن ابى بكر المالكى المعروف بابن الحاجب رحمه الله الحمد لله ربّ العالمين وصلى الله على محمد وعلى اله وصحبه وسلم تسليما اما بعد فانى لما رايت قصور الهمم عن الاكثار وميلها الى الايجاز والاختصار صنفت مختصرا في اصول الفقه ثم اختصرته على وجه بديع وسبيل منبع لا يصد اللبيب عن تعلمه
Explicit: و يتركب من الترجيحات [63ب] فى المركبات و ا[--]د امور لا يختصر وفيما ذكر لرشاد لذلك والله اعلم اخر مختصر منتهى الوصول والامل فى علمى الاصول والجدل
Binding Note
Paper over paper pasteboards for upper and lower covers; edges in brown leather; rebacked; damaged; disbound. Paper pastedowns with inscriptions.

Physical Characteristics

File Count
68

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/ad6c77e5-f792-4100-9a5d-76953a1a80c4/manifest