كتاب مجمع البحرين وملتقى النيرين

Kitāb Majmaʻ al-baḥrayn wa-multaqá al-nayyirayn.

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Manuscript, Book
Language
Arabic
Published/​Created
Jerusalem, [1450]
Description
138 leaves: paper ; 180 x 135 (112 x 85) mm. bound to 180 x 135 mm.

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    Summary note
    Elegant copy of a compendium on Ḥanafī law, based on the Mukhtaṣar by al-Qudūrī (d. 428/1037) and the Manẓūmah by al-Nasafī (d. 537/1142), completed in 690/1291 (see GAL).
    Notes
    • Ms. codex.
    • Title from title page (fol. 1a). The second part of the title (after "al-baḥrayn") is written in a smaller script in red ink.
    • Physical description: 15 lines per page. Written in clear small square naskh in black ink with use of red for key-words and headings. Red teardrops in groups of three for text-stops. Thick cream paper, glossy, with pulp and chain lines visible. Fol. 3, 8, 55-56, 95-96, 115-116, 124-127 are later replacements. Quinions. Several inscriptions, including ownership statements, on fol. 1a (most of them obliterated).
    • Collation: Paper, fol. 138 ; 1-13¹⁰ 14¹⁰ (-2, after fol. 138) ; catchword on the verso of each leaf.
    • Inscription in Roman script in red pencil on the pastedown of the upper cover: "50 Aus Y".
    • Origin: Copy completed in Madīnat al-Quds, on Friday 15 Jumādá al-Ūlá 854 [June 26, 1450] by Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Sūdānī al-Ḥanafī (colophon, fol. 137b).
    • Patronage: Copied for (bi-rasm) Muḥyī al-Dīn Yaḥyá al-Ḥanafī al-Maqdisī (colophon, fol. 137b).
    • Incipit: الحمد لله جاعل العلماء انجما للاهتداء زاهرة واعلامًا للاقتداء طاهرةً ... اما بعد فهذا كتاب يصغر للحافظ حجمه
    • Explicit: و من صالح من الورثة [137ب] او الغرمآ على شيء منها طرح ثم قسم الباقى على سهام من بقي منهم هذا اخر مجمع البحرين وملتقى النيرين وقد اتيت به على ما اسسته من تلك القواعد ... والله هو المشكور على افاضة نعمه والمسول خاتمه الشعادة وبفضله وكرمه وحسبنا الله ونعم الوكيل
    Binding note
    Brown leather over paper pasteboards for upper and lower covers. Both covers are similarly blind-tooled with a border consisting of a running pattern, fillets and guilloche, and a central panel with a large mandorla outlined by a fillet extending on the vertical axis to form a large three sepalled calix on each side of the mandorla. Rebacked.
    Provenance
    Reading statement in the name of Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Ṭarābulusī al-Ḥanafī, disciple (tilmīdh) of al-Shaykh Burhān al-Dīn ibn ...? al-Ḥanafī (fol. 138b). On the same fol., ownership statement apparently by the same hand (Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf al-Ṭarābulusī al-Ḥanafī), with indication of a price, in Damascus. Several ownership statements on fol. 1a and 138a, most of them obliterated, one dated 3 Dhū al-Qaʻdah 1084 [Feb. 9, 1674] (fol. 138a). Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
    Source acquisition
    Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
    References
    • Mach, R. Yahuda, 1055
    • Brockelmann, C. GAL, I, 383 (49/1)
    Other format(s)
    • Microfilm negative available for reproduction.
    • Also available in an electronic version.
    Other title(s)
    كتاب مجمع البحرين
    Title on tail of text block
    • Kitāb Majmaʻ al-baḥrayn
    OCLC
    143414968
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