Author
Nasafī, ʻAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad, -1310
Publication Date
[1469]
Subject
Islamic law—History—13th century—Sources[Browse]Hanafites—History—13th century—Sources[Browse]Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton[Browse]
Type
kitap
Language
Arabic
Digital
No
Manuscript
Yes
Pages Count
147
Physical Dimensions
147 leaves: paper ; 265 x 185 (160 x 105) mm. 265 x 190 mm.
Library
Princeton University Library
Library Asset ID
182624402
Record ID
9953275493506421
Library Location
Special Collections - Manuscripts
Date
[1469]
Notes
Ms. codex.Title from fol. 1a. The same title appears in the preamble of the text (fol. 5a, l. 4).Physical description: 11 lines per page. Written in black ink with use of red for headings. Cream paper, glossy, with laid and chain lines visible. Fol. 1-3 and 147 are later additions (European paper with watermarks). Interlinear and marginal ḥāshiyah. Table of contents on fol. 1b-2a. Several inscriptions and short excerpts on fol. 4a. Foliation in black ink using Arabic numerals (starts with "1" on fol. 5a). Water stains and damage with some loss of marginal text.Inscriptions in Arabic script on the pastedown of the upper cover: "Ḥ 1393" (on a label); "504" (in red pencil). Inscription in Arabic script black pencil on fol. 1a: "240 Kanz al-daqāʼiq".Origin: According to colophon, copy completed in Ramaḍān 873 [March-April 1469] by Khalīl ibn Ṭūrīlī(?) (fol. 142b, with two lines of poetry; copyist's name added at the end)Incipit: الحمد لله الذى اعزّ العلم فى الاعصار واعلى ... قال مولانا الحبر التحرير صاحب البيان والبنان فى التقري والتحري كاشف المشكلات والمعضلات مبيّن الكنايات والاشارات منبع العلى علم الهدى ... حافظ الحق والملة والدين شمس الاسلام والمسلمين وارث علوم الانبياء والمرسلين ابو البركات عبد الله ابن احمد ابن محمود النسفى افاض الله عليه انوار رحمته وتغمّده بغفرانه لما رايت الهمم مايلة الى المختصرات والطباع راغبة عن المطولات اردت [5أ] ان الخّص الوفى بذكر ما عمّ وقوعه وكثر وجوده لتكثر فايدتهExplicit: بين كتفيه الى وسط الظهر وللشابّ العالم ان يتقدّم على الشيخ الجاهل ولحافظ القرأن ان يختم فى اربعين يوما تمت الكتاب - Dark brown leather binding with flap. Small blind stamped motif on the envelope flap. Fore-edge flap and spine repaired. Paper pastedowns. - Treatise on Ḥanafī fiqh. The text is followed on fol. 143a-146b by several short texts written by another hand than the main text , in Arabic and Ottoman Turkish: Bāb sharḥ duʻāʼ ... (in Turkish), Bāb isqāṭ al-ṣalāh (in Turkish), Kitāb al-farāʼiḍ, Kitāb al-qaḍāyā.
Kaynak
Ownership statement in the name of al-Ḥājj ʻAbd Allāh Anṣarī, and impression of two stamps on fol. 1a. Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
Referanslar
Mach, R. Yahuda, 1064Brockelmann, C. GAL, II, 196 (1/III) ; SII
Edinme Kaynağı
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.