Princeton University, Islamic Manuscripts New Series no. 1970

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DS ID:

DS15686

Shelfmark:

Islamic Manuscripts New Series no. 1970

Title:

Kitāb al-Ashbāh wa-al-naẓāʼir fī al-fiqh ʻalá madhhab al-imām al-aʻẓam wa-al-humām al-akrām Abī Ḥanīfah al-Nuʻmān ibn Thābit ...

Author:

Ibn Nujaym, Zayn al-Dīn ibn Ibrāhīm, -1563 / ابن نجيم، زين الدين بن ابراهيم

Zayn al-Dīn ibn Ibrāhīm Ibn Nujaym WIKIDATA

Place:

Qusṭantinīyah

Al Qusţanţīnīyah TGN

Date:

1594

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

ara

Arabic WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: i, 289, i leaves : paper ; 201 x 118 (140 x 60) mm. bound to 202 x 130 mm.

Note:

Ms. codex.
Title from end of text (fol. 287a).
Physical description: 19 lines. Written in nastaʻlīq in black ink with use of red; gold for entries and text stops on fol. 1b-7b. The text is framed in gold outlined in black. Dark cream paper with laid lines and fibres visible. Several inscriptions and short excerpts on fol. (i)a-(ii)b, including ownership statements.
Decoration: Illuminated headpieces (ʻunwān) on fol. 1b and 7b, elegantly executed in gold, red, blue, light blue and white.
Origin: According to colophon, copied by Faḍl Allāh ibn Muḥammad in Qusṭantinīyah, and completed on Thursday 10 Shawwāl 1002 [June 1594] (fol. 287a).

Keyword:

headpieces (layout features)

Manuscripts, Arabic

Islamic bookbinding

Islamic law

Hanafites

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/9954841223506421

IIIF Manifest:

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/a6a0edc0-c031-4ea5-a30a-61d72588da93/manifest

Holding Institution:

Princeton University