كتاب توضيح مع تنقيح

Kitāb Tawḍīḥ maʻa Tanqīḥ ... [etc.].

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Manuscript, Book
Language
Arabic
Published/​Created
[Qusṭanṭinīyah?], [1748-1813]
Description
iii, 207, i leaves: paper ; 218 x 145 and 213 x 137 mm. bound to 224 x 155 mm.

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    Summary note
    Collection of three texts: Two commentaries on texts by ʻUbayd Allāh ibn Masʻūd al-Maḥbūbī (d. 747/1346) on uṣūl al-fiqh, -- a commentary on Tanqīḥ al-uṣūl by the author (followed by a short text in Ottoman Turkish written by another hand on fol. 167b), and a commentary on al-Muqaddimāh al-arbaʻ by ʻAbd al-Ḥakīm ibn Shams al-Dīn al-Siyālkūtī --, and another short treatise by the same Siyālkūtī. The volume comprises two parts copied separately and bound together at a later date, Text 1 (fol. 1-167) and Text 2 and 3 (fol. 168-207).
    Notes
    • Ms. composite codex.
    • Title provided by cataloger, from title of text 1 (rubric, fol. 2b).
    • Physical description: Text 1 written in medium small thick nastaʻlīq in black ink with use of red, with 20 lines per page (162 x 75 mm.), on European paper with watermark. Important annotations on the margins, between the lines, and on small pieces of paper pasted between the original leaves. Several inscriptions on fol. 1a-2a. Foliation in pencil using Western numerals (counts some but not all leaves pasted between the original fol.; this record follows the existing foliation).
    • Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the upper cover: "Uṣūl 72". Inscription in Arabic numerals on a label pasted on the pastedown of upper cover: "1041/2 Ḥ".
    • Origin: According to colophons, copy of text 1 completed on a Thursday in Muḥarram 1161 [Jan. 1748], during the reign of Salīm Khān, in the Madrasat ʻAbd al-Raḥmān Afandī, by Islām ibn Bayrām Ghāzī ... (fol. 167a). Copy of text 3 completed in the middle of Shaʻbān 1228 [Aug. 1813] in Qusṭanṭinīyah by Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Asīrī(?) (fol. 200a).
    Contents
    • 1. fol. 1b-167a: Kitāb Tawḍīḥ maʻa Tanqīḥ / ʻUbayd Allāh ibn Masʻūd al-Maḥbūbī.
    • 2. fol. 167b: [Short text in Ottoman Turkish].
    • 3. fol. 168a-200a: [Sharḥ al-Muqaddimāt al-arbaʻ] / ʻAbd al-Ḥakīm ibn Shams al-Dīn al-Siyālkūtī.
    • 4. fol. 200b-207b: al-Risālah al-Khāqānīyah / ʻAbd al-Ḥakīm ibn Shams al-Dīn al-Siyālkūtī.
    Provenance
    Ownwership statement dated Dhū al-ḥijjah 1132 on fol. 1a. From the books of Aḥmad Najīb (see note in his name on fol. 1a, mentioning the beginning of the memorizing of this text (mudhākarah), dated 1284 H. [1867 or 8]). Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
    Source acquisition
    Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
    References
    Mach, R. Yahuda, 917, 930
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    • Microfilm negative available for reproduction.
    • Also available in an electronic version.
    OCLC
    210133265
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