Item Summary

Collection of two treatises: (1) a treatise on iḥtisāb according to the Ḥanafī legal school, in 64 chapters (bāb), by al-Sunāmī (dates uncertain, Brockelmann: after 993/1585 in Bukhārā ; Ziriklī: d. 696/1297 ; M. Izzi Dien: 7th-8th c./13th-14th c.) ; (2) a work on maʻād by Ibn Ḥajar al-ʻAsqalānī (d. 852/1449).

Descriptive Information

Title
نصاب الاحتساب. المنبهات على الاستعداد ليوم المعاد
Transliterated Title
Niṣāb al-iḥtisāb. al-Munabbihāt ʻalá al-istiʻdād li-yawm al-maʻād.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 5021Y
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/bg257h66k
Publisher
[1660]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1660
Format
Manuscript
Extent
82 leaves: paper ; 194 x 135 (150 x 80) mm. bound to 194 x 142 mm.
Provenance
Ownership statement in the name of Nūḥādī Zādah on fol. 3a (erased). Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Mach, R. Yahuda, 1089, 2123
Partington, David H. The Nisab Al-Ihtisab, an Arabic religio-legal text. PhD Dissertation. Princeton University, 1961.
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Contents
1. fol. 2a-70a: Niṣāb al-iḥtisāb / ʻUmar ibn Muḥammad al-Sunāmī (or Sanāmī).
2. fol. 70b-81a: al-Munabbihāt ʻalá al-istiʻdād li-yawm al-maʻād / Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Ḥajar [al-ʻAsqalānī].
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger, from title of Text 1 (preamble of text, fol. 3b) and title of Text 2 (beginning of text, fol. 70b). The title of text 1 also appears with mention of the author in an inscription on fol. 3a, apparently in the same hand as the ownership statement in the name of Nūḥādī Zādah on the left margin. The name of the author of text 2 appears at the beginning of the text (fol. 70b).
Physical description: 27 lines per page. Written in small naskh in black ink with use of red. European paper with watermark. Inscriptions and short excerpts from several texts, including Tabyīn al-maḥārim [by Yūsuf ibn ʻAbd Allāh al-Amāsī, d. 1000/1591 or 2?] and Abū al-Saʻūd Afandī on fol. 1a-b, 3a, 81b. Verses of poetry in Persian on fol. 82b. Table of contents of Niṣāb al-iḥtisāb on fol. 2a-b. Catchword on the verso of each leaf; quinions.
Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the upper cover: "Thālith 14". Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the pastedown of the upper cover: "640/2 Ḥ".
Origin: According to colophon, copy of text 1 completed on 21 Jumādá al-Ūlá 1070 [Feb. 3, 1660] by Muṣtafá ibn Aḥmad (fol. 70a). Text 2 apparently by the same hand.
Copyist: Muṣtafá ibn Aḥmad.
Binding Note
Quarter bound in marbled paper and golden brown leather. Yellow paper pastedowns, with inscriptions in Ottoman Turkish.

Discovery Information

Subject
Muḥtasib—Early works to 1800
Islamic law—Early works to 1800
Hanafites—Early works to 1800
Future life—Islam—History of doctrines—15th century—Sources
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton

Physical Characteristics

File Count
87

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/6aa83f76-93e0-4ff1-a9df-a0159a3fa840/manifest