Author
Zāhidī al-Ghazmīnī, Mukhtār ibn Maḥmūd, -1259 or 1260.
Publication Date
[16--]
Subject
Qudūrī, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad,, Qudūrī, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad, /
972 or 973-1037., Qudūrī, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad, / 972 or 973-1037. /
Mukhtaṣar., Manuscripts, Arabic, Manuscripts, Arabic /
Michigan, Manuscripts, Arabic / Michigan /
Ann Arbor., Hanafites, Hanafites /
Early works to 1800., Islamic law, Islamic law /
Early works to 1800.
Type
Book
Language
Arabic
Digital
No
Manuscript
Unknown
Pages Count
217
Physical Dimensions
217 leaves : paper ; 210 x 155 (169-171 x 105-111) mm
Library
HathiTrust Digital Library
Record ID
006491421
Library Location
University of Michigan
Notes
About: Fine (though defective) copy of Mukhtār ibn Maḥmūd al-Zāhidī's commentary on al-Qudūrī's Mukhtaṣar, a concise manual of Ḥanafī law ; acephalous and ending abruptly with end wanting. See Mich. Isl. Ms. 62 for another ms. copy. | Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center, Isl. Ms. 104
Origin: Lacks dated colophon ; paper suggests early 17th century.
Former shelfmark: British Museum, London "No. 126. Work on law."
Binding: Pasteboards covered in once marbled paper with dark brown leather over spine, foreedge flap and edges/turn-ins ; Type III binding (without flap) ; board linings in laid European paper ; sewn in dark yellow thread, two stations ; worked chevron endbands in red and blue, headband intact, tailband damaged with half missing ; overall in poor condition with severe abrasion, lifting and losses of paper and leather, staining, moisture damage, pest damage, etc.
Support: European laid paper with 8 laid lines per cm. (vertical) and chain lines spaced 28 mm. apart (horizontal) ; watermarks include crown star crescent (compare Heawood 1132) and three crescents (tre lune) ; thick and burnished ; some blocking, smudging, and staining.
Decoration: Section headings rubricated ; overlining of matn in red and black.
Script: Naskh ; fine, clear Turkish hand ; virtually serifless ; effect of tilt to the left ; many open counters ; rightward descenders tapered ; pointing in joined dots, forming lines or curves ; point of final nūn often assimilated with bowl.
Layout: Written in 15 (pp.1-176), 17 (pp.177-216) and 23 (pp.226-434) lines per page ; frame-ruled.
Collation: 4 V (40), IV (48), 12 V(168), IV (176), V (186), VI (198), IV+1 (207), V (217) ; chiefly quinions ; catchwords present ; foliation in red ink, Hindu-Arabic numerals, opens with folio '۱ ۸' on p.1, visible only on first three leaves ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization.
Explicit: "فاضرب في اصل المسئلة وعولها ان كانت عائلة فان تساوت للاعداد"
Incipit: "ظل كل شيء مثليه لقوله عم ابردوا في الظهر فان شدة مثليه [كذا] فيح جهنم ولان جبرئل عم صلى الظهر في اليوم الثاني حين صار ظل كل مثليه ..."
Title supplied by cataloguer.
Ms. codex.
Bookplate of British Museum, London on interior of upper cover, "British Museum, London. No. 126. Work on law." ; circular seal impression with figure of goat/gazelle in purple ink as well as inscription "331" in Western numerals on opening leaf (p.1) ; occasional marginal corrections and glosses.
