Sayf al-Dīn al-Abharī alá ʻAḍud al-Dīn,[15th century?].سيف الدين الابهري على عضد الدين،[القرن 15م؟].
Title:
Sayf al-Dīn al-Abharī alá ʻAḍud al-Dīn,[15th century?].سيف الدين الابهري على عضد الدين،[القرن 15م؟].
Summary:
Elegant copy of al-Abharī's gloss upon al-Ījī's (d. 756/1355) commentary on Ibn al-Ḥājib's (d. 646/1249) abridgement of his own Muntahá al-suʼl wa-al-amal fī ʻilmay al-uṣūl wa-al-jadal, on uṣūl al-fiqh. Copy ends abruptly and appears incomplete.
Other Title(s):
Ḥāshīyat Sayf al-Dīn ʻalá al-ʻAḍudīyahحاشية سيف الدين على العضديةTitle from inscription on front flyleaf recto:حواشي شرح عضد لمولانا سيف الدين الابهري
Subject(s):
Islamic law--Interpretation and construction--Early works to 1800.
Manuscripts, Arabic--Michigan--Ann Arbor.
Ījī, ʻAḍud al-Dīn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Aḥmad,--d.1355?--ʻAḍudīyah.
Ibn al-Ḥājib, ʻUthmān ibn ʻUmar,--1175-1249.--Mukhtaṣar al-Muntahá.
Incipit:
"الحمد لله الذي شرع الاحكام وربطها بدلائل كلية وعلل تفصيلية للاحكام وابار معالم الدين بانوار الكتاب والخير ..."
Physical Details:
Collation:
ii,13 IV(104), ii ; quire numbering in red ink, Hindu-Arabic numerals, appears on the recto of the first leaf for the second through the sixth quires, thereafter likely cut off ; entirely quaternions ; catchwords present, though occasionally lost to trimming ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes insert).
Script:
Naskh ; graceful Eastern hand (Persian or Transoxanian?) ; sans serif ; mainly closed counters ; kāf mashkūlah preferred ; slight effect of tilt to the right ; some swooping tails ; initial hāʼ looking like two inverted commas.
Decoration:
Text rubricated with keywords, overlining, etc. in red ; occasional textual dividers in the form of red discs or inverted commas.
Support:
non-European (Arab) laid paper with indistinct laid lines spaced 8 laid lines per cm. (20 laid lines in 25 mm.) ; chain lines grouped in threes running horizontally spaced roughly10 mm. apart with roughly 43-45 mm. between the groups ; well-burnished with some burnisher's marks visible ; quite smooth ; some undissolved fibers.
Binding:
Pasteboards covered in red brown leather ; Type II binding (with flap) ; doublure hinges and interior of envelope flap extending onto lower doublure in red brown leather with block-stamped vegetal pattern ; board linings in paper ; upper and lower covers carry blind-tooled central circular medallion consisting of a series of concentric circles formed with a crescent-shaped stamp, accents in same stampe, and border in s-shaped stamps and scored fillets ; design continues on envelope flap ; sewn in cream thread, four stations ; endbands virtually gone though traces remain ; in fair condition with abrasion, lifting and cracking of spine and fore-edge flap leather, some pest damage, repairs in blue cloth tape, and paper label bookplate pasted over upper cover.
Accompanying Materials:
Slip of European laid paper with excerpt in black ink (paginated pp.85-86).
Former Shelfmarks:
British Museum, London "No. 18. Commentary on a work on theology by Al-Iji." ; "٣٩٤" on tail-edge of textblock.
Ownership and History:
Bookplate of British Museum, London on upper cover, "British Museum, London. No. 18. Commentary on a work on theology by Al-Iji." ; circular seal impression with figure of goat/gazelle/antelope in purple ink as well as inscription "491" in Western numerals on front flyleaf recto ; price on front flyleaf verso ; ownership statement on second of front flyleaves reads "صاحبه ومالكه شمس الدين حسن بن محمد الفنري [؟] عليهم رحمة ..." ; several effaced statements on fol.1a (p.1) along with circular waqf-seal impression in black ink (also appears several other places throughout) reads: "هذا وقف الراجي فيض الصمدي الشيخ احمد ضيا الدين ابن مصطفى الخالدي فمن بدله بعد ما سمعه فانما اثمه على الذين يبدلونه" ; numerous glosses and marginal corrections throughout ; collation marks "بلغ" appear regularly on the verso of the final leaf of the first several quires, thereafter may simply be cut off.
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Posted by evyn on March 8, 2010
Tags: Arabic MSS, Fully Catalogued, Tiflis Collection
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