Kanz al-daqāʼiq.
كنز الدقائق.

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Nasafī, ʻAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad, -1310.

Language:

Arabic

Subjects (All):

Hanafites--Early works to 1800.

Hanafites.

Islamic law--Early works to 1800.

Islamic law.

Genre:

codices (bound manuscripts)

Penn Provenance:

Acquired for the libraries from Luzac and Co. (London, England), 1910.

Physical Description:

175 leaves : paper ; 300 x 200 (203 x 115) mm bound to 300 x 204 mm.

Place of Publication:

A.H. 1015 (1607)

Language Note:

Arabic.

Summary:

Copy of a compendium of Ḥanafī jurisprudence. Neatly written with pages in good condition. Extensive marginalia on some pages, mostly near the beginning.

Notes:

Ms. codex.

Title from introduction (f. 1v).

Foliation: Modern foliation added in pencil, upper left recto; catchwords every verso, lower left.

Layout: 11 long lines; border-ruled and frame ruled with misṭarah.

Script: Written in naskh in black ink; pointed, vocalized.

Decoration: Rubrications in red; headers sometimes set off by rules. Border-rules in double red.

Binding: Bound in brown leather over pasteboard with flap, now detached (Type II). Blind stamped and gilded central mandorla with two pendants on the vertical axis with mostly effaced gold-tooled frame. Flap has coordinating stamp and tooling. Pastedowns on boards silver stamped with repeating floral motif; other, faded, flower motifs are also visible under the silver stamps. Marbled paper pastedown on flap. Front cover detached from the spine.

Origin: Copy completed on the 5th of Dhū al-Qaʻdah in the year A.H. 1015 (March 4, 1607) (f. 174v).

Watermarks: Two watermarks. In upper corner, initials A B over a small trefoil. Centrally placed, a circle pointed on one end with an anchor in the middle.

Cited as:

UPenn Oversize Ms. Codex 1896.

OCLC:

1083522904

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