Minḥat al-sulūk sharḥ Tuḥfat al-mulūk,
[1116, i.e. 1704].

منحة السلوك شرح تحفة الملوك, [1116ه، 1704م].

Description

Main Author

ʻAynī, Badr al-Dīn Maḥmūd ibn Aḥmad, 1361-1451.

Language(s)

Arabic

Published

[1704].

Subjects

Rāzī, Muḥammad ibn Abī Bakr, > Rāzī, Muḥammad ibn Abī Bakr, / fl. 1261. > Rāzī, Muḥammad ibn Abī Bakr, / fl. 1261. / Tuḥfat al-mulūk.
Manuscripts, Arabic > Manuscripts, Arabic / Michigan > Manuscripts, Arabic / Michigan / Ann Arbor.
Hanafites > Hanafites / Early works to 1800.
Islamic law > Islamic law / Early works to 1800.

Summary

Commentary on Tuḥfat al-mulūk, al-Rāzī's treatise on Ḥanafī law.

Note

Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center, Isl. Ms. 567
Origin: As appears in colophon on fol.123a, copying completed ("kāna al-farāgh min hādhihi al-nuskhah al-mubārakah...") mid-afternoon Thursday, 22 Rabīʻ I 1116 [ca. 25 July 1704]. Copyist is not named.
Accompanying materials: a. Inventory cataloguing slip in hand of Winifred Smeaton Thomas. -- b. Acquisitions slip from Yahuda.
Former shelfmark: From pasted label on lower cover and inscription on front flyleaf "IL 360" (likely supplied by Yahuda).
Binding: Pasteboards covered in red leather; Type III binding (without flap); upper and lower covers carry simple blind-tooled and scored lines; doublures of block-printed paper with lined floral pattern in green and pink; pasted label with shelfmark; in fair to good condition.
Support: non-European (likely Persian) laid paper; somewhat thin with many undissolved fibers; laid lines running horizontally and spaced roughly 6-7 laid lines per cm. and no chain lines visible; leaves of final quire appear to be of a different laid paper with laid lines running vertically and spaced roughly 8-9 laid lines per cm.; flyleaves of heavier laid paper.
Decoration: Text of matn rubricated with sharḥ in black ; also words such "قلت" and "فان قلت" marking the dialogic relationship between this gloss and text and some overlinings in red.
Script: Naskh ; mainly fine, neat Persianate hand with a very slight tilt to the left, swooping tails of final nūn, etc. and mostly closed counters, partially seriffed with lām of definite article occasionlly bearing right sloping head serif, alif of lām alif ligature occasionally bearining left sloping head serif, etc., upward-spiraling hāh mudghamah (muʻallaqah) found occasionally throughout, kāf mashkūlah preferred ; at fol.62b and fol.82b, line and thickness changes though same hand apparent ; hand changes at fol.106a and final leaves (including colophon) are supplied in a nastaʻlīq.
Layout: Written in 25 lines per page.
Collation: 12 V (120), I+1 (123); chiefly quinions followed by a binion with added singleton; traces of quire numbering in the form of full words on the upper outer margin of the recto of the first folio of certain quires; catchwords present; pagination in pencil, Western numerals (referenced in cataloguing).
Colophon: "Authorial" followed by "Scribal," rectangular, reads: "قال مصنفه وهذا اخر ما كتبناه في شرح الكتاب بعون الله الملك الوهاب والحمد لله رب العالمين وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد واله وصحبه اجمعين وسلم تسليما كثيرا وكان الفراغ من هذه النسخة المباركة يوم الخميس وقت العصر في شهر ربيع الاول عدد ايام الشهر ٢٢ في سنة ١١١٦"
Explicit: "وهو مولانا فنعم المولى ونعم النصير وهو على كل شيء قدير"
Incipit: "وبه ثقتي ان اجري ما يملي في تباشير الخطب والدبابيج واحسن ما يتلي في صحائف مصابيح الدياجير والدبابيج [كذا] ... اما بعد فان العبد الفقير الى ربه الغني ابا محمد محمود بن احمد بن العيني ... يقول لما وقعت في الديار المصرية ... ورايت الترك منكبتين على المختصر الموسوم بتحفة الملوك ... وانه محتاج الى الشرح والايضاح والبيان والافصاح اردت ان ادون له شرحا ... مترجما بكتاب منحة السلوك شرح تحفة الملوك"
Title from opening on fol.1b-2a.
Ms. codex.
On fol.1a, partially obscured ownership statement in black ink dated 1246 [1830 or 1831] in name of al-Ḥājj Ṣāliḥ Bīk, son of Sulaymān Bāshā of Baghdād (Salih Bey b. Süleyman Paşa) and accompanied by trace of seal impression reads: "من من من من على عبد الفقير اليه جل شانه الحاج صالح بك نجل المرحوم المغفور ... سليمان باشا ببغداد عفي ... سنة ١٢٤٦" ; prayer inscribed on fol.1a; seems that additional inscriptions are obscured due to the folio bearing the incipit page (here marked p.2 or fol.1b) having been adhered to the preceding flyleaf (here marked p.1 or fol.1a); marginal corrections (including omissions, etc.) and glosses in several hands.

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123 leaves : paper ; 248 x 140 (185 x 85) bound to 250 x 142 mm.

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