[Sharḥ Mukhtaṣar al-Qudūrī,
961, i.e. 1554].
[شرح مختصر القدوري, 961ه, 1554م].
Description
- Language(s)
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Arabic
- Published
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[1554]
- Summary
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Mukhtār ibn Maḥmūd al-Zāhidī's (d.1259 or 60) commentary on al-Qudūrī's Mukhtaṣar, a compendium of Ḥanafī law. Many marginal notes.
- Note
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Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center, Isl. Ms. 62
Origin: As appears in colophon on p.513, copied by Muṣṭafá ibn Ḥasan with transcription completed around noon of the 11th of Jumādá I 961 [ca. 14 April 1554].
Accompanying materials: a. Slip with glosses, excerpts, pen trials, etc. tipped in between pp.68-69.
Former shelfmark: British Museum, London "No. 132. Commentary on Kuduri."
Binding: Pasteboards faced with marbled paper and with red-brown leather over spine and board edges / turn-ins (except for head of board); Type III binding (without flap); doublures / board linings in block-printed paper (repeating diamond design, offset in contrasting blue and red); sewn in white thread, two stations, quite sound; worked chevron endbands in yellow and blue; overall in fair condition with moisture damage, back flyleaf adhered to lower cover, staining and minor abrasion.
Support: European laid paper with roughly 10 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 28-32 mm. apart (horizontal), bull's head watermark (see p.14, 72, 298, 508, 514, etc.), and countermark of "N P" under trefoil (see p.16, 282, etc.); flyleaves in a different European laid paper (crown, perhaps above grapes, watermark visible in front flyleaf).
Decoration: Chapter headings and section headings rubricated, as well as abbreviations in the form of the letters "م" and "ش" to introduce the matn and sharḥ, respectively; also "س" seemingly for suʼāl.
Script: Naskh; compact, careful Turkish / Anatolian hand in a medium line; mainly serifless with slight effect of inclination to the left, curvilinear descenders, compactly filling the line but gracefully elongated in the vertical, shaqq of kāf sweeping dramatically upward, pointing in strokes rather than distinct dots, point of final and free-standing nūn above tall bowl; freely ligatured in text of colophon.
Layout: Written in 17 lines per page.
Collation: i, 24 V (240), V+1 (241), IV (259), i ; chiefly quinions; foliation in black ink, Hindu-Arabic numerals skipping initial leaf; catchwords present; pagination added later in pencil, Western numerals.
Colophon: "Scribal," triangular, reads: "تمت الكتاب بعون الله الملك الوهاب على يد العبد الضعيف المحتاج الى رحمة ربه مصطفى بن حسن اعناه الله بلطفه الخفي في وقت الظهر في يوم الحادي عشر في جمادى الاول [كذا] سنة احدى وستين وتسعمائة"
Explicit: "فاذا صححت مسئلة المناسخة واردة معرفة ما يصيب كل واحد من جياة الدرهم قسمت صحت منه المسئلة على ثمانية واربعين فما حرج اخذة من سهام كل واحد حبة"
Incipit: "الحمد لله الذي جعلنا من حملة كتابه الذي هدي به المتقين ورواه سنيين نبيه محمد خاتم النبيين صلى الله عليه وعلى اله الطيبين كتاب الطهارات..."
Title supplied by cataloguer.
Ms. codex.
Bookplate of British Museum, London on inner front cover, "No. 132. Commentary on Kuduri."; circular seal impression with figure of goat/gazelle in purple ink as well as inscription "196" in Western numerals on recto of front flyleaf; kabīkaj invocation "يا حفيظ يا كبيكج" on 'title page' (p.1); former inventory and owners' marks (including excerpts) on 'title page' (p.1), many faded or obscured; numerous marginal glosses and corrections (many in the hand of the copyist).
- Physical Description
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259 leaves :
paper ;
215 x 150 (145 x 95) mm. bound to 217 x 159 mm
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