Author
Kardarī, Ibn al-Bazzāz, -1424.
Publication Date
[1553]
Subject
Manuscripts, Arabic, Manuscripts, Arabic /
Michigan, Manuscripts, Arabic / Michigan /
Ann Arbor., Islamic law, Islamic law /
Sources, Islamic law / Sources /
Early works to 1800., Hanafites, Hanafites /
Early works to 1800., Fatwas, Fatwas /
Early works to 1800., Headpieces (layout features)
Type
Book
Language
Arabic
Digital
No
Manuscript
Unknown
Pages Count
468
Physical Dimensions
468 leaves : paper ; 287 x 165 (208 x 100) mm. bound to 290 x 170 mm
Library
HathiTrust Digital Library
Record ID
006795098
Library Location
University of Michigan
Notes
About: A compendium of Ḥanafī fatwas from various sources; copy in rough condition with extensive page repairs and some loss of text. See Isl. Ms. 70 for another ms. copy. | Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center, Isl. Ms. 539
Origin: According to colophon on fol.468b, copied by Yaḥyá ibn ʻAlī al-Saqaṭī al-Mālaqī [?]. Copying completed ("najiza Kitāb al-Jāmiʻ al-wajīz...") 2nd Jumādá II 960 [ca. 16 May 1553].
Accompanying materials: a. Inventory cataloguing slip in hand of Winifred Smeaton Thomas. -- b. Acquisitions slip from Yahuda. -- c. a number of scraps with doodles (pen trials?) inserted irregularly at mid-quire in the latter part of the codex (see fol.233b-234a, etc.).
Former shelfmark: From inner front cover and spine label, "IL 259" (likely supplied by Yahuda, see acquisitions slip); front flyleaf in purple ink "۱٤".
Binding: Pasteboards covered in brown leather with numerous repairs in brown and red leathers; Type II (with flap); present flap may be recycled or restoration, i.e. not original to covers; upper and lower covers carry gold-stamped central mandorla, pendants, and cornerpieces (compare Déroche class. OSd 8 and OSd 9); blind-stamped rosettes on fore-edge flap; blind-stamped geometric border on envelope flap; doublures of dark brown leather, upper doublure inscribed in black ink "احمد بن زين الدين"; interior of flap in woven cloth and marbled paper in green, blue, and yellow; pasted label on spine with shelfmark; in poor condition.
Support: primarily non-European (likely Persianate) laid paper with roughly 8-9 laid lines per cm. (vertical, indistinct) and no chain lines plainly visible; somewhat thin with many inclusions, cloudy formation, well-burnished, in several places quite worn; flyleaves are of a much later wove paper bearing embossed mark ("imitation watermark") in shape of tabula ansata (30 x 15 mm.) with inscription "اثر جديد عهد همايون" ; this same paper is used for the extensive page repairs and reinforcement throughout.
Decoration: Illuminated headpiece (ʻunwān) on fol.1b, clearly damaged with only trace of upper panel remaining (in gold with red and blue accents, vegetal design); cartouche within lower panel of headpiece carries basmalah on a field of gold; gilt vegetal pattern extends over angular fields of blue and gold on either side of cartouche; bounded with red frame and gold border; frame in gold and blue on incipit page, red rule-borders thereafter throughout; textual dividers in the form of red discs on incipit page and facing page; text rubricated, with section headings, overlines, etc. in red as well as gold, blue, green, and violet; text of headings for rubrication written in margins, though occasionally cut off where page has been trimmed or worn.
Script: Naskh; clear hand; sans serif, occasional sweeping tails and descent of words to the baseline; different hand supplies text of fol.440b-445a.
Layout: Written in 31 lines per page.
Collation: ii, 2 V (20), IV (28), 10 V (128), VI (140), 2 V (160), IV (168), 13 V (298), V+1 (309), IV (317), 9 V (407), IV+1 (416), VI (428), I (430), II (434), VIII (450), IV (458), I (460), IV (469), ii; chiefly quinions; catchwords present; foliation in red ink, Hindu-Arabic numerals, begins on folio following the incipit page with "٢", skips ١۶۶ and count off thereafter; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, referenced in cataloguing.
Colophon: "Scribal," triangular/trapezoidal, reads: "نجز كتاب الجامع الوجيز في الفتاوى بحمد الله وعونه في ثاني شهر جمادى الثاني في سنة ستين وتسعماية على يد الفقير الحقير المعترف بالعجز والتقصير الراجي رحمة ربه القدير الواثق بربه المعطي يحيى بن علي السفطي المالقي [؟] حامد الله تعالى وصلى الله على سيدنا ونبينا ومحمد وعلى اله وصحابه وسلم تسليما كثيرا"
Explicit: "وصمت بعارض فهو كالمريض المعتقل لسانه كذا في المحبوبي والله اعلم"
Incipit: "[حمدا لمن دعا الى دار] السلام بمحمد عليه افضل الصلاة والسلام شارع احكام الاسلام ... وبعد فهذا [مختصر] في بيان تعريفات الاحكام على وجه الاتقان والاحكام جمعه العبد محمد بن محمد الكردري ... كتاب الطهارة"
Title from colophon on fol.468b.
Ms. codex.
Oval seal impression in black ink on fol.468b, "عبد الرحمن..."; inscription on upper doublure gives name of Aḥmad ibn Zayn al-Dīn (الحمد بن زين الدين) ; marginal corrections and notabilia (side-heads) throughout; various signes-de-renvoi employed including inverted caret to mark omissions (see fol.11a); collation mark "بلغ" found in later quires from fol.251b.
