[Juzʼ min al-Dhakhīrah al-Burhānīyah,
15th century?].

[جزء من الذخيرة البرهانية, القرن 15م؟].

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Main Author
Marghīnānī, Maḥmūd ibn Aḥmad, 1156 or 1157-1219 or 1220.
Language(s)
Arabic
Published
[14--?].
Subjects
Marghīnānī, Maḥmūd ibn Aḥmad, > 1156 or 7-1219 or 20. > Muḥīṭ al-Burhānī fī al-fiqh al-Nuʻmānī. > Abridgment.
Manuscripts, Arabic > Michigan > Ann Arbor.
Hanafites > 12th century.
Islamic law > Sources > Early works to 1800.
Summary
Fine copy of an acephalous odd volume of a treatise on Ḥanafī law, opening in Kitāb al-Daʻwá and concluding with the final faṣl of Kitāb al-Hibah wa-al-Ṣadaqah. Though Yahuda identifies the work as Ṭāhir ibn Aḥmad al-Bukhārī's Khulāṣat al-fatāwá, the content and arrangement suggest Maḥmūd ibn Aḥmad ibn ʻAbd al-ʻAzīz ibn ʻUmar ibn Māzah al-Bukhārī al-Marghīnānī's summary of his own al-Muḥīṭ al-Burhānī fī al-fiqh al-Nuʻmānī. Preceeded by table of contents. Description provided by Noah Gardiner.
Note
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center, Isl. Ms. 541
Origin: Lacks dated colophon ; paper suggests early 15th century and a dated statement on p.820 provides a rough terminus ante quem of 6th or 8th [?] Muḥarram 848 [ca. 25 or 27 April 1444].
Accompanying materials: a. Inventory cataloguing slip in hand of Winifred Smeaton Thomas. -- b. Acquisitions slip from Yahuda.
Former shelfmark: From inscription on inner front cover and spine label, "IL 112a" (likely supplied by Yahuda, see acquisitions slip).
Binding: Pasteboards covered in dark brown leather, with envelope flap in light brown leather ; Type II binding (with flap) ; both upper and lower doublures in dark red leather ; appears to have been cobbled together, with the flap and both the upper and lower covers coming from distinct bindings ; upper cover carries a rectangular geometric design with tooled fillets outlining alternating bands of tooled crosses and a vegetal hour-glass shaped stamp all surrounding a central array of squares (7 x 3) filled with additional tooled cross motifs ; entire panel is accented with gold-tooled dots lower cover carries a vestigial mandorla, visible where the boards were apparently re-covered ; envelope flap carries a partial border of fillets and repeated stamp impressions, two gold-tooled stamps, a single gold fillet, and a gold-tooled shamsah with four nodes and a field of quasi-knotwork stamps ; sewn in white thread, four stations, with some threads broken ; endbands in poor condition with tailband virtually gone and headband significantly damaged ; in poor condition with much abrasion, cracking, lifting and losses of leather (particularly at spine and edges of upper and lower covers), delamination of boards, etc. ; repairs in a few light brown leathers ; housed in box for protection.
Support: non-European (Arab or Persian) laid paper with vertical laidlines, 20 laidlines in 30 mm. and chain lines possibly in alternating sets of 3 and 2 (set of 3, 15-16 mm. apart, with 27 mm. between sets ; set of 2, 18 mm. apart with 32 mm. between sets ; set of 3, 15-18 mm. apart with 33 mm. between sets) ; There are no definitive matches in Humbert, but the relatively short distance between sets suggests a possible resemblance to the 15th cent. Shīrāzī and Iṣfahānī papers in Table VII (see Humbert, pp.46-47) ; paper of the table of contents (p.1-4) supplied on another Oriental laid paper with chain lines difficult to discern ; back flyleaf is in a European laid paper, though with no visible watermarks.
Decoration: Section headings and abbreviation symbols (such as mīm used as a fullstop) are rubricated ; overlining in red.
Script: Naskh, quite possibly Iraqi ; mainly serifless ; alifs sometimes have an S-shape and usually have a left foot ; bar (shaqq) of the kāf is a separate stroke, such that it terminates to the left of the ascender ; counters are generally tightly closed, such that the waw looks more like a rāʼ ; final yāʼ in word fī is mardūdah ; sparingly pointed.
Layout: Written in 23 lines per page ; frame-ruled (impression of ruling board evident).
Collation: I (2), IV-1 (9), 11 IV(97), V (107), III (113), 15 IV(233), IV (240), 21 IV(408), I (410), i ; chiefly quaternions ; quire numbering in Hindu-Arabic numerals occasionally visible, though most likely lost to trimming (see p.339) ; middle-of-quire marks in the form of oblique strokes either in all four corners or in the upper outer corner of the right-hand leaf and lower outer corner of the left-hand leaf ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals (supplied during digitization, mistakenly repeats pp.476-477, includes back flyleaf).
Explicit: "وانما يكون لوالده اخر التعليم والارشاد وقال بعضهم حسناته تكون لابويه فالله اعلم تم كتاب الهبة والصدقة ويتلوه كتاب الاجازة"
Incipit: "كذلك [؟] وانما اذ عينتم من ميراث امكم فاذ [؟] جاء بوجه يكون له فيه من قوله ..."
Title supplied by cataloguer.
Ms. codex.
Oval waqf-seal impression in the margin on p.17 and on back flyleaf (p.821) reads "من الكتب التي اوقفها الشيخ محمد التمامي [؟] ..." ; notice on p.820 dated 6th or 8th [?] Muḥarram 848 [ca. 25 or 27 April 1444] penned by Muḥammad Ḥājjī Ṭālib ; price on p.820 ; glosses, notabilia and marginal corrections in a few different hands throughout.
Physical Description
410 leaves : paper ; 270 x 195 (205 x 130) mm.
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