Author
Muḥarram ibn Muḥammad Muharram bin Muhammad
Author Original
محرم بن محمد
Publication Date
1760]
Publication Place
-
University of Michigan
Subject
Rāzī, Muḥammad ibn Abī Bakr, active 1261. Tuḥfat al-mulūk. | Manuscripts, Arabic | Hanafites Early works to 1800. | Islamic law Early works to 1800. | more | less
Type
Book
Language
Arabic
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
Yes
Pages Count
192
Physical Dimensions
192 leaves : paper ; 220 x 165 (170 x 105) mm. bound to 220 x 160 (165) mm.
Library
Digital Library of the Middle East
Record ID
006080184
Library Location
University of Michigan
Date
1760]
Notes
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 74 | Origin: As appears in colophon on fol.192a, copied by Khalīl ibn Ḥusayn ibn Khalīl ibn Muḥammad ibn Ḥasan. Transcription finished ("qad waqaʻat istirāḥat al-qalam min taswīd hādhā al-kitāb...") in the latter part of Rabīʻ I 1174 H / October 1760. | Accompanying materials: Ottoman stamp tucked in between fol.96 and 97 (Western pagination). | Former shelfmark: British Museum, London "No. 151. Commentary on Tuhfat al-muluk." | Binding: Pasteboards covered in brown leather and worn marbled paper ; once Type II binding (with flap) though flap is now missing (leather burn staining from envelope flap on opening leaf) ; board linings in paper, hinges in lime green silk ; upper and lower covers carry traces of blind-stamped decoration (now obliterated) including central mandorla and cornerpiece, off-center as board was cut down to fit this text block (recycled covers) ; very worn and in poor condition ; repair to upper joint in green textile. | Support: European laid paper with 11 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 22-24 mm. apart (horizontal), and watermarks of crossbow (arbalète, see p.6, 8, etc.) and three small hats (tre cappelli, see p.10, etc.), thin and crisp though quite sturdy, bright cream in color, well-burnished to glossy. | Decoration: Text rubricated with chapter headings, overlining, etc. in red. | Script: Naskh ; Turkish hand in a medium to bold line ; virtually serifless with slight effect of words descending to baseline and of inclination to the left, pointing (for two and three dots) in strokes, point of final nūn fully encircled by bowl. | Layout: Written in 21 lines per page ; impression of ruling-board evident. | Collation: 18 V (180), VI (192) ; quaternions followed by a sexternion ; foliation in black ink, Hindu-Arabic numerals skipping leaf between ٥٥ and ٥٦ ; catchwords present ; pagination added later in pencil, Western numerals. | Colophon: "Scribal," rectangular, reads: "قد وقعت استراحة القلم من تسويد هذا الكتاب بعون الله الملك الوهاب في يد اضعف الطلاب حين انخراط سلك الطلاب خليل بن حسين بن خليل بن خليل [?] بن محمد بن حسن غفر الله له ولوالدي واحسن اليهم واليه في بلدة ارض روم في مدرسة رضائية في محلة يكن احمد اغا في شهر عشر الآخر من ربيع الاول في يوم جار شنبة بين الظهر والعصر سنة اربعة وسبعين ومائة بعد الالف من هجرة النبي المصطفى صلى الله عليه وعلى جميع الانبياء والمرسلين والحمد لله رب العالمين وعلى اله وصحبه اجمعين سنة ١١٧٤" | Explicit: "فان كان الوارث واحدا من اصحاب الفروض النبي اخذ كل المال بالرد لا بالفرض ثم مسائل اربعة اقسام فليطلب في المطولات" | Incipit: "الحمد لله الذي جعل قلوب العلماء [مرايا] جمال معاني الهداية..." | Title from opening. | Ms. codex. | Commentary by Abū al-Layth al-Muḥarram ibn Muḥammad ibn al-ʻĀrif al-Zīʻlī (al-Zaylāʻī) on Tuḥfat al-mulūk, al-Rāzī's treatise on Ḥanafī law. Includes many comments and reading notes in margins and at front with excerpts from other works including Kitāb al-waṣāyā and Manāqib al-Imām al-aʻẓam Abī Ḥanīfah. Also includes table of contents. | more | less
