المعونة

al-Maʻūnah.

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Uniform title
Format
Manuscript, Book
Language
Arabic
Published/​Created
[1092]
Description
20 leaves : paper ; 220 x 144 (157 x 117) mm. bound to 220 x 144 mm.

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    Summary note
    Summary of the Mulakhkhaṣ fī al-jadal by the author, on dialectics for jurists.
    Notes
    • Ms. codex.
    • Title from colophon (fol. 20a).
    • 21 lines per page. Written in small naskh, using black ink. Thick paper with horizontal chain lines visible. Quinions. On fol. 1a, title, name of the author and prayer in praise of God in another hand. On fol. 20a, poem in Persian added by another hand in the left margin. On fol. 20b, several short texts unrelated with the main text by another hand. Modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
    • Collation: Paper, fol. 20 ; 1-2¹⁰.
    • Copied during Jumādá al-Ākhirah 485 by al-Ḥasan ibn Yaḥyá ibn ʻUbayd Allāh al-Kirmānī al-Jīraftī.
    • Incipit: بسم... رب يسر ولا تعسر قال الشيخ الامام ابو اسحاق ابرهيم ... الحمد لله حق حمده ... بيته لما رايت حاجة من يتفقه ماسة الى معرفة ما يعترض به
    • Explicit: ان تكون احداهما توافق دليلا اخر من الاصل او معقول من الاصل فهي اولي لانها اقوي
    Binding note
    Modern binding made of red and black marbled paper over pasteboards.
    Provenance
    Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900, from the books of Amīn ibn al-Ḥasan al-Ḥulwānī al-Madanī al-Ḥanafī (Medina).
    Source acquisition
    Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
    References
    • Hitti, P. Arabic coll., 867
    • Brockelmann, C., GAL, I, 388/IV
    Other title(s)
    كتاب معونة المبتدئين وتذكرة المنتهين في رسوم النظر
    Title from fol. 1a in a later hand
    • Kitāb Maʻūnat al-mubtadiʼīn wa-tadhkirat al-muntahīn fī rusūm al-naẓar
    OCLC
    65432242
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