Author
Ghaznawī, Aḥmad, -1196 or 1197.
Publication Date
[13--?]
Subject
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
131
Physical Dimensions
131 leaves : paper ; 254 x 180 (189 x 115) mm
Library
HathiTrust Digital Library
Record ID
006803218
Library Location
University of Michigan
Notes
About: Acephalous early copy of the work of Ḥanafī law most commonly attributed to Jamāl al-Dīn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Nūḥ al-Qābisī al-Ghaznawī. See Isl. Ms. 92 for another ms. copy. | Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center, Isl. Ms. 553
Origin: As appears in colophon on p.263, copied by ʻAbd al-Qādir al-Musallamī ; date of transcription not specified though paper, etc. may suggest 14th or even late 13th century (see Humbert, pp.33-35).
Accompanying materials: a. Acquisitions slip from Yahuda (pp.1-2) -- b. Inventory cataloguing slip in hand of Winifred Smeaton Thomas (pp.3-4).
Former shelfmark: From interior of upper cover and spine label "IL 97" (likely supplied by Yahuda, see acquisitions slip).
Binding: Pasteboards covered in shell marbled paper (mainly in blue and brown) with dark green cloth over spine ; Type III binding (without flap) ; board linings in beige wove paper ; resewn mainly in yellow thread, six stations, then black thread in final three quires ; stuck-on endbands ; overall in somewhat poor condition but with abrasion, lifting and losses of paper, delamination of boards at corners, staining, some spine slant (slightly cocked), etc.
Support: non-European laid paper with roughly 9-10 laid lines per cm. (horizontal) and chain lines spaced in threes with 13-17 mm. between chains and 35-38 mm. between groups (vertical) ; quite thick, sturdy and soft with laid and chain lines rather indistinct ; striated pattern and possible zigzag appears in many leaves (see p.30, 39, etc.) ; staining and tide lines.
Decoration: Keywords, section headings, and abbreviation symbols rubricated ; textual dividers in the form of red discs.
Script: Naskh ; clear, quite compact 'Syrian' or Egyptian [?] hand ; virtually serifless with curvinlinear descenders, pointing in distinct dots, many closed counters, and slight effect of tilt to the left.
Layout: Written in 33 lines per page ; frame-ruled.
Collation: i, 1 (1), V+1 (12), 2 V(32), IV+1 (41), 9 V(131) ; chiefly quinions ; acephalous, with further leaves missing between first two leaves (as extant) for roughly 40 leaves missing altogether ; catchwords present ; foliation in black ink, Hindu-Arabic numerals (opening leaf numbered ٣٢, following ٤۸) ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes inserts and front flyleaf , mistakenly repeats p.39 and p.42).
Colophon: "Scribal," reads "على يد الفقير الى الله تعالى عبد القادر المسلمي غفر الله له ولوالديه"
Explicit: "وهذا اساس قياس جليل يفتح بمعرفته ابواب النجاة ويرقي بمراقيه مراقي الدرجات والله تبارك وتعالى اعلم بالصواب واليه المرجع والمآب ونسأله اللطف يوم الحساب انقضى تحرير الحاوي القدسي ونجز وابى محرره التطويل فاوجز وقد حوي بحمد الله ومنه مسائل مجموعات كثيرة في الاصوليين كاعتقاد الطحاوي وتمهيد النسفي ... وفي الفروع كجامع الصغير ومختصر القذوري ... لا ينقص مجموعه عن اربعين الف مسئلة والحمد لله وحده"
Incipit: "في بيت مال المسلمين ..."
Title from closing matter on p.263.
Ms. codex.
Occasional marginal corrections.