Muqaddimat al-Ghaznawī ... etc

Title:

Muqaddimat al-Ghaznawī ... etc
مقدمة الغزنوي ... إلخ

Creator:

Ghaznawī, Aḥmad
.غزنوي، أحمد بن محمد

Contributor:

ʻAbd Allāh ibn Khalīl Chāvush, scribe
Fuzulî
Jāmī
Abū Ḥanīfah
عبد الله بن خليل چاوش, ناسخ
فضولى
جامى
ابو حنيفة

Date:

[1714]

Description:

Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 504Origin: According to colophon on fol.69b, copied by ʻAbd Allāh ibn Khalīl Chāvush (Abdullah b. Halil Çavuş). Copying of first work completed 3 Dhū al-Ḥijjah 1125 [ca. 21 December 1713] (see fol.69b). Copying of second work completed 20 Dhū al-Ḥijjah 1125 [ca. 7 January 1714] (see fol.74a). No date given for completion of copying for third work.Accompanying materials: a. Acquisitions slip from Yahuda.Former shelfmark: From inner front cover and spine label, "IL 357" (likely supplied by Yahuda, see acquisitions slip); head of textblock inscribed "۹۳".Binding: Thin pasteboards covered in red leather; Type III binding (without flap); board linings and flyleaves of machine wove paper; blind-tooled decorative border on upper and lower covers; pasted label on spine; sewn in blue thread, two stations; worked chevron endbands in magenta and dark blue [?], good condition; overall in good condition.Support: European laid paper with roughly 12 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines (horizontal) spaced 20-24 mm. apart, and watermark of three crescents (tre lune, perpendicular to chains, roughly 85 mm. long, see p.14, 74, etc.), thin though sturdy, dark cream in color, well-burnished.Decoration: Red rule-borders throughout; red discs and geometric figures serve as textual dividers in the final work of the codex; section headings rubricated ; overlining in red.Script: Naskh; very fine, clear, Turkish hand, rounded and tilting slightly to the left with free standing alif sans serif and letters such as lām, ṭāʼ, ẓāʼ serrifed, though inconsistently; unusual form for lām alif ligatures where serif of alif closes to form a round loop not unlike the numeral "۹" (see fol.3b, etc.); all three texts copied in the same hand.Layout: Written in 15 lines per page.Collation: 2 (2), 7 V (72), I (74), IV (82); chiefly quinions; catchwords present; foliation in black ink, Hindu-Arabic numerals, begins with folio following the incipit page; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during cataloguing.Explicit: "خاتمة الكتاب اربعينهاى سالكان جامى هست بهر وصول صدر قبول نبود [كذا] فضل حق عجيب وغريب كه ازبعين [كذا] رسى بوصول اثر اربعين اهل سلوك قرب حق رتبه سن قيلور حاصل اوفر تركيسم فضولى مسكين اوله بو اربعينله واصل تمت الكتاب"Incipit: "الحمد لله الذي عم البلاد بنعمته وارفاده وخص العباد بهدايته وخلق النهار بانواره والليل بسواده والغيم بامطاره والسحاب بارعاده... اما بعد لما رايت قصور همم الناس في طلب العلم ... هداني ذلك ان اجمع لهم مختصرا نافعا في العبادات"Title supplied by cataloguer.Ms. codex.6. fol. 74b-82b : Tarjamat arbaʻīn ḥadīthan / Mawlānā Nūr al-Dīn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān Jāmī ; Mehmet bin Süleyman Fuzulî.5. fol. 69b-74a : Kitāb Fiqh al-akbar / [Abū Ḥanifah].4. fol. 3b-69b : [Muqaddimat al-Ghaznawī] / Aḥmad al-Ghaznawī.3. fol. 3a : [blank with later notes].2. fol. 1b-2b : [table of contents].1. fol. 1a : [blank with later notes].Contains three works, mainly of Ḥanafī fiqh, including [1] al-Ghaznawī's work on ʻibādāt and [2] al-Fiqh al-Akbar attributed to Abū Ḥanīfah, followed by [3] Jāmī's collection of commentary on forty hadith accompanied by Fuzulî's elucidation in Turkish.

Language:

Arabic
Persian
Turkish, Ottoman (1500-1928)

Type (Narrower):

Manuscripts

Type (Broader):

Text

Subject:

Manuscripts, Arabic
Hanafites Early works to 1800.
Islamic law Early works to 1800.
Islam Customs and practices Early works to 1800.

Extent:

82 leaves : paper ; 217 x 155 (154 x 86) mm. bound to 220 x 160 mm.

Rights:

Public Domain

Format:

Book
Manuscript/Archive
Online
Print

Same as:

https://search.lib.umich.edu/catalog/record/006768261

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