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هذا كتاب ابو المنتهى لشرح الفقه الاكبر ... [الخ.]
Hādhā Kitāb Abū al-Muntahá li-sharḥ al-Fiqh al-akbar ... [etc.]
1750
A commentary on al-Fiqh al-akbar, a treatise on doctrine by Imām Abī Ḥanīfah. Followed by a treatise on allegorical metaphors, and a gloss on the first part of the commentary of Quṭb al-Dīn al-Rāzī on al-Shamsīyah.
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- Publisher
- 1164 [1750 or 1751]
- People
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- Related Name
- Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 480H
- Language
- Arabic
- Subject
- Abū Ḥanīfah -767 or 768—Fiqh al-akbar
- Islam—Doctrines—Early works to 1800
- Hanafites—Early works to 1800
- Arabic language—Rhetoric—Early works to 1800
- Quṭb al-Taḥtānī, Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad 1294 or 1295-1364 or 1365—Sharḥ Shamsīyah
- Qazwīnī, ʻAlī ibn ʻUmar 1203 or 1204-1276 or 1277—Shamsīyah
- Logic—Early works to 1800
- Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
- Manuscripts, Turkish—New Jersey—Princeton
- headpieces (layout features)
- illuminated manuscripts
- Colored papers
- Watermarks
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Item Summary
A commentary on al-Fiqh al-akbar, a treatise on doctrine by Imām Abī Ḥanīfah. Followed by a treatise on allegorical metaphors, and a gloss on the first part of the commentary of Quṭb al-Dīn al-Rāzī on al-Shamsīyah.
Descriptive Information
- Title
- هذا كتاب ابو المنتهى لشرح الفقه الاكبر ... [الخ.]
- Transliterated Title
- Hādhā Kitāb Abū al-Muntahá li-sharḥ al-Fiqh al-akbar ... [etc.]
- Call Number
- Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 480H
- Identifier
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcsx61dx86x
- Publisher
- 1164 [1750 or 1751]
- Language
- Arabic
- Date Created
- 1750
- Format
- Manuscript
- Extent
- 59 leaves : paper ; 206 x 135 (138 x 65) mm. bound to 206 x 140 mm.
- Provenance
- Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
- Source Acquisition
- Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
- References
- Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1666, 572, 847.
- Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), IV, p. 458; IV, pp. 268/9
- Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, II, p. 25.
- Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 1929/30, 7325.
- Catalogue des manuscrits et xylographes orientaux de la Bibliothèque impériale publique de St. Pétersbourg, 90¹, 106⁹.
- Rights Statement
- Copyright Not Evaluated
- Contents
- 1. fol. 1a: [inscription]
- 2. fol. 1b-38a: Hādhā Kitāb Abū al-Muntahá li-sharḥ al-Fiqh al-akbar.
- 3. fol. 38b-46a: ʻInāyah fī taḥqīq al-istiʻārah bi-al-kināyah.
- 4. fol. 46a-56a: [Ḥāshiyah ʻalá dībājat sharḥ Quṭb al-Dīn]
- 5. fol. 56b: [Fāʼidah fī taqlīm al-aẓfār and several traditions]
- 6. fol. 57a: [Extract from Ḥayāt al-qulūb]
- 7. fol. 58a-59b: [Incomplete work in Ottoman Turkish]
- Notes
- Ms. composite codex.
- Title from caption (fol. 1b).
- Marginal and interlinear notes and glosses. Several inserts. The three main works are in the same hand. Title on lower edge of text block illegible ("Fiqh ...")
- Collation: Paper ; fol. ii + 59 + iv ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
- Layout: 17 lines per page ; frame-ruled in red.
- Description: Rubricated ; overlining in red ; folios 58-59 and the two following folios are yellow paper ; watermarks (fol. 1-58: roman-alphabet lettering; fol. 58-59: eagle with roman-alphabet letters "GFA"; three hats; pastedown: coat-of-arms in a double circle topped by a crown) ; MS in good condition.
- Decoration: Simple illuminated headpieces in a gold floral design on folios 1b and 38b. Fol. 1b-2a and 38b-39a frame-ruled in gold.
- Origin: [Ḥāshiyah ʻalá dībājat sharḥ Quṭb al-Dīn] Copied 1164 by Muṣṭafá ibn ʻUmar (fol. 56a).
- Incipit: [شرح الفقه الاکبر] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله الذي هدانا الى طريق السنة ... اما بعد فيقول العبد الضعيف المذنب ابو المنتهى عصمه الله تعالى الكبير الكريم ... -- [العناية في تحقيق الاستعارة بالکناية] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه اما بعد الحمد لوليه على خفي لطفه وجليه والصلوة على نبيه النبي محمد واله وذويه فهذا رسالة موسومة بالعناية في تحقيق الاستعارة بالكناية ... -- [حاشية على ديباجة] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم. متوکلاً بکرمه العميم ... وبعد فيقول المحتاج الى رحمة الملك القديم برهان الدين ابن كمال الدين ...
- Colophon: [شرح الفقه الاکبر] اللهم يا هادي المهتدين اهدنا الصراط المستقيم تمت [تم] الکتاب -- [العناية في تحقيق الاستعارة بالکناية] والحمد لله رب العالمين وصلى الله على نبيه محمد وآله وصحبه اجمعين -- [حاشية على ديباجة] تم ما اوردنا في صدر الشرح والله المعين والحمد لله رب العالمين
- Binding Note
- Type II (with flap) binding in brown leather and marbled paper. Marbled paper flyleaves.
Discovery Information
- Subject
- Abū Ḥanīfah -767 or 768—Fiqh al-akbar
- Islam—Doctrines—Early works to 1800
- Hanafites—Early works to 1800
- Arabic language—Rhetoric—Early works to 1800
- Quṭb al-Taḥtānī, Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad 1294 or 1295-1364 or 1365—Sharḥ Shamsīyah
- Qazwīnī, ʻAlī ibn ʻUmar 1203 or 1204-1276 or 1277—Shamsīyah
- Logic—Early works to 1800
- Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
- Manuscripts, Turkish—New Jersey—Princeton
- headpieces (layout features)
- illuminated manuscripts
- Colored papers
- Watermarks
Physical Characteristics
- File Count
- 156
Institutional Information
- Collection
- Manuscripts of the Islamic World
- IIIF Manifest URL
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https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/3ef2e903-472a-4640-ba18-90f1051d34ae/manifest