Princeton University, Oversize Islamic Manuscripts Garrett no. 856Hq

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DS ID:

DS16241

Shelfmark:

Oversize Islamic Manuscripts Garrett no. 856Hq

Title:

Kitāb Minaḥ al-ghaffār li-sharḥ Tanwīr al-abṣār / / كتاب منح الغفار لشرح تنوير الابصار /

Minaḥ al-ghaffār li-sharḥ Tanwīr al-abṣār

Author:

Khaṭīb al-Tamartāshī, Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd Allāh, 1532 or 1533-1595 or 1596 / خطيب التمرتاشي، محمد بن عبد الله، 1532 or 1533-1595 or 1596

Muḥammad Ibn-ʿAbdallāh at- Tamirtāšī WIKIDATA

Scribe:

ʻAnbūsī, ʻAbd al-Muḥsin ibn ʻAbd al-Ghanī, active 17th century / عنبوسي، عبد المحسن بن عبد الغني، active 17th century

ʻAbd al-Muḥsin ibn ʻAbd al-Ghanī ʻAnbūsī WIKIDATA

Date:

18 Rajab 1095 [July 1, 1684?

seventeenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

ara

Arabic WIKIDATA

Material:

paper

Paper AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 555 leaves : paper ; 300 x 200 (235 x 124) mm bound to 300 x 203 mm.

Note:

Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 7a).
A few marginal notes and glosses. Fatwá (fol. 1b). Table of contents (fol. 2b-4a).
Collation: Paper ; fol. 555 + ii ; quires signed in red: 2-53 (last three quires unsigned) ; catchwords ; foliation in ink using Hindu-Arabic numerals ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 41 lines per page ; frame-ruled in red.
Description: Text in red and commentary in black ; headings in red or green ; some paper lightly tinted red ; watermarks (fol. 1-6: three crescent, crown-star-crescent; main text: pot, three hats?, roman-alphabet initials "GMZ"? with trefoil, other unidentified); MS in good condition.
Decoration: Simple illuminated headpiece of gold and black (fol. 7b). Opening spread frame-ruled in gold and black (fol. 7b-8a).
Origin: According to colophon copy completed Sunday 18 Rajab 1095 by ʻAbd al-Muḥsin ibn ʻAbd al-Ghanī al-ʻAnbūsī (fol. 555b).
Ownership signatures: Muṣṭafá ibn Muḥammad al-Usṭuwānī al-Ḥanafī, Imām of Jāmiʻ al-Umawī in Damascus, dated 1095; Ibrāhīm ibn Muṣṭafá al-Usṭuwānī dated 1126 (fol. 7a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Keyword:

illuminated manuscripts

Watermarks

Leather doublures

Autographs

Colored papers

headpieces (layout features)

Gold tooled bindings

Tanwīr al-abṣār (Khaṭīb al-Tamartāshī, Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd Allāh)

Manuscripts, Arabic

New Jersey--Princeton

Hanafites

Early works

Islamic law

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/9963581543506421

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Holding Institution:

Princeton University