Princeton University, Islamic Manuscripts Garrett no. 403B

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DS ID:

DS27526

Shelfmark:

Islamic Manuscripts Garrett no. 403B

Title:

Kitāb al-Uṣūl fī natāʼij al-ʻu[qū]l / كتاب الاصول في نتائج العقول

Texts on Islamic law

Author:

Samarqandī, ʻAlāʼ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad, -1144? / سمرقندي، علاء الدين محمد بن احمد

Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Ḥamīd Usmandī al-Samarqandī WIKIDATA

Date:

1227

thirteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

ara

Arabic WIKIDATA

Material:

paper

Paper AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: i, 209, i leaves: paper ; 255 x 170 (180 x 115) mm. bound to 255 x 175 mm.

Note:

Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
Incipit: الحمد لله ذى العزّة و [---] والرحمة والافضال والصلاة على رسوله ... قال الشيخ الامام علآ ال[---] النظر ابو بكر محمد بن احمد السمرقندى متّعه الله من علمه ان [---] ول الفقه والاحكام فرع لعلم اصول الكلام
21 lines per page. Written in medium large naskh in black ink faded to brown, with some use of red. Thick cream paper with laid and chain lines visible. Quinions. Marginal annotations by several hands. Two spine labels with inscriptions reading respectively "Kitāb Mīzān al-uṣūl fī natāʼij al-ʻuqūl" in Arabic script and "10[3]" in Western and Arabic numerals. The two first leaves are damaged...
Collation: Paper, fol. i, 209, i ; i (later added free endpaper), 110 (-1, before fol. 1) 2-2110, i (later added free endpaper) ; the quires are numbered using Arabic ordinals in the form "thānī" (see fol. 10a) ; signs to mark the middle of the quire (see fol. 15a) ; foliation in black ink using Arabic numerals (note the characteristic 5).
Copy completed on Yawm al-Khamīs middle of Dhū al-Qaʻdah 624 [Oct. 26, 1227] by ʻAbd al-Qāhir ibn Aḥmad [ibn] Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan ibn al-Ṭabīb al-Ḥanafī (colophon, fol. 209a). The text has been collated on a copy in the hand of Raḍī al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Ṭūsānī(?) al-...(?), known as al-Muḥīṭ, in the first ten days of Dhū al-Ḥijjah 624 [Nov. 1227] (collation statement...
Several ownership statements and seal in red ink reading "British Museum" on fol. 1a and 209b. Acquired from Mūrad Bey Bārūdī, Beirut, 1925.

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Arabic

Thirteenth century

New Jersey--Princeton

Islamic law--Interpretation and construction

History

Twelfth century

Sources

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/9951878763506421

IIIF Manifest:

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/4dcf8a6d-a8d3-4f11-99d2-804b76d38d28/manifest

Holding Institution:

Princeton University