Sayf al-Dīn al-Abharī alá ʻAḍud al-Dīn,
[15th century?].

سيف الدين الابهري على عضد الدين، [القرن 15م؟].

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Main Author
Abharī, Sayf al-Dīn, -1397?
Language(s)
Arabic
Published
[14--?]
Subjects
Ibn al-Ḥājib, ʻUthmān ibn ʻUmar, > 1175-1249. > Mukhtaṣar al-Muntahá.
Ījī, ʻAḍud al-Dīn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Aḥmad, > -1355? > ʻAḍudīyah.
Manuscripts, Arabic > Michigan > Ann Arbor.
Islamic law > Interpretation and construction > Early works to 1800.
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.
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Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center, Isl. Ms. 38
Origin: Lacks dated colophon ; paper and hand suggest 15th century. Cover likely contemporary with transcript.
Accompanying materials: Slip of European laid paper with excerpt in black ink (paginated pp.85-86).
Former shelfmark: British Museum, London "No. 18. Commentary on a work on theology by Al-Iji." ; "٣٩٤" on tail-edge of textblock.
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.
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 roughly 10 mm. apart with roughly 43-45 mm. between the groups ; well-burnished with some burnisher's marks visible ; quite smooth ; some undissolved fibers.
Decoration: Text rubricated with keywords, overlining, etc. in red ; occasional textual dividers in the form of red discs or inverted commas.
Script: Naskh ; graceful hand ; 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.
Layout: Written in 21 lines per page ; frame-ruled.
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).
Explicit: "هو الوقت المشروع اولا وبعد الوقت المطنون تضيقه قبل الوقت و اقره اليه اد [؟]"
Incipit: "الحمد لله الذي شرع الاحكام وربطها بدلائل كلية وعلل تفصيلية للاحكام وابار معالم الدين بانوار الكتاب والخير ..."
Title from inscription on front flyleaf verso.
Ms. codex.
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 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 [...؟] 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" in name of Aḥmad Ḍiyāʼ al-Dīn ibn Muṣṭafá al-Khālidī (i.e. Ahmed Ziyâüddîn Gümüşhanevî, d. 1893 or 4) ; 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.
Physical Description
104 leaves : paper ; 180 x 140 (130 x 95) mm. bound to 180 x 145 mm
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