Details

Subject(s)

• Islamic law—History—13th century—Sources [Browse]
• Hanafites—History—13th century—Sources [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• Illuminated manuscripts—Islamic Empire—15th century [Browse]

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 illuminated title page (fol. 1a).
• Physical description: 13 lines per page. Written in small square naskh in black ink with use of red for headings, re-inking, etc. The text is vocalized. Red teardrop text-stops. On the two first pages of the text (fol. 1b-2a), frame in gold outlined in black, with headings in gold thulth outlined in black. Illuminated title page in blue, red and gold on fol. 1a. Thick dark cream paper, opaque, with laid and chain lines, and pulp, visible ; frame-ruled (note the ruling for the ḥāshiyah). Fol. 160 is a later addition. Ḥāshiyah on the margins.
• Origin: Copy completed on Wednesday 10 Dhū al-Qaʻdah 883 [Feb. 1479] by Muḥammad Abū al-Luṭf ibn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn ʻImrān (colophon, fol. 159b). Collation statement on the margin of fol. 159b, stating that the text was collated on the copy of Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad Abū al-Jawd al-Ghazzī, known as Ibn al-Maghribī, itself collated on a copy written by Nāṣir al-Dīn Muḥammad al-Ayāsī, from an autograph copy.
• Incipit: الحمد لله جاعل العلماء انجما للاهتداء زاهرة واعلامًا للاقتداء طاهرةً ... اما بعد فهذا كتاب يصغر للحافظ حجمه
• Explicit: و من صالح من الورثة ار الغرماء على شيء منها طرح ثم قسم الباقى على سهام من بقي منهم ه قال المصنّف رحمه الله تعالي هذا اخر مجمع البحرين وملتقى النيرين وقد اتيت به على ما اسسته من تلك القواعد ... [159ب] ... والله المسئول خاتمة السعادة بفضله وكرمه وصلّى الله على سيدنا محمد وعلى اله وصحبه وسلّم وكرّم وعظّم

Binding note

Dark brown leather over paper pasteboards for upper and lower covers, fore-edge flap and envelope flap. The covers and envelope flap are similarly blind tooled and stamped, with a border consisting of fillets, with inner corners outlined by fillets, and a stamped mandorla on the covers and a stamped medallion on the point of the envelope flap. Spine wanting.

Provenance

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 title(s)

مجمع البحرين

Title on tail of text block

• Majmaʻ al-baḥrayn

OCLC

143425401

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