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This document is a digital facsimile of a manuscript belonging to the Walters Art Museum, in Baltimore, Maryland, in the United States. It is one of a number of manuscripts that have been digitized as part of a project generously funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, and by an anonymous donor to the Walters Art Museum. More details about the manuscripts at the Walters can be found by visiting The Walters Art Museum's website www.thewalters.org. For further information about this book, and online resources for Walters manuscripts, please contact us through the Walters Website by email, and ask for your message to be directed to the Department of Manuscripts.
The Walters Art Museum 600 N. Charles Street Baltimore, Maryland 21201 http://www.thewalters.org/
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/legalcode Published 2009
Decoration note: Headpiece; red double-line rulings Decoration
Upper board outside: Title: Binding Form: Binding Label: This light brown goatskin binding with flap is contemporary with the manuscript and is decorated with gold-tooled oval central medallion, pendants, and cornerpieces. fol. 1 b: Title: Alphabetical table of contents Form: Text page; table of contents Text: Table of contents Label: This alphabetical table of contents precedes the title page. It is written in red ink for the chapters and black ink for the folio numbers. fol. 147a: Title: Colophon with later notations Form: Colophon Label: The colophon on this page gives the name of the scribe as ʿAlī ibn Muḥibb ʿAlī and the date of copying as 1083 AH / 1673 CE. Later notations were written by Muḥammad al-Aṭrābazundī in Makkah (Mecca) in the month of Shaʿbān in the year 1166 AH / 1752 CE.
Provenance
Muḥammad Afandī Ṭarābizānī (fol. 2a) Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Kādharūnī (fol. 2a) Ismāʿīl al-Sayyid ʿAṭāʾ Allāh al-Mālikī al-Ḥusaynī, 1113 AH / 1701 CE, plus seal (fol. 2a)
Binding
The binding is not original. Contemporary with manuscript; light brown goatskin (with flap); gold-tooled oval central medallion, pendants, and cornerpieces; pastedowns of colored paper
Bibliography
Brockelmann, Carl. Geschichte der arabischen Litteratur (New York; Köln: E.J. Brill, 1996), 2:31; S2:20.
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Genre
Legal
Language
The primary language in this manuscript is Arabic.
Colophon
147a: Transliteration: tamma al-kitāb al-mubārak bi-ḥamd Allāh taʿalá /1/ wa-ʿawnih wa-ḥusn tawfīqih ʿalyad afqar ʿibād Allāh wa-aḥwajihim ilá maghfiratih ʿAlī Ibn Muḥibbʿalī /2/ ghafara Allāh lahu wa-li-wālidayhi wa-mashāyikhih wajamīʿ al-muslimīn /3/ ghurrat shahr Dhī al-Qaʿdah sanat /4/ tal<ā>th wa-thamānīn wa-alf aḥsana Allāh /5/ ʿāqibatahahā bi-khayr bi-Muḥammad wa-<ā>alih amīn amīn /6/ yā Rabb al-ʿālamīn /7/ Comment: Colophon gives the name of the scribe and the date of copying
Support material
Paper Laid paper
Extent
Foliation: i+148 Earlier foliation in Hindu-Arabic numerals ending on fol. 146
Collation
Catchwords: Written obliquely on versos
Dimensions
16.0 cm wide by 28.0 cm high
Written surface
12.5 cm wide by 24.5 cm high
Layout
Columns: 1 Ruled lines: 39
Contents
fols. 1b - 147b: Title: Al-Miṣbāḥ al-munīr fī gharīb al-Sharḥ al-Kabīr Incipit: Text note: Present copy was collated with three other copies by Muḥammad al-Aṭrābazundī in Makkah (Mecca), mid Shaʿbān 1166 AH / 1752 CE (see fol. 147a); title page is preceded by an alphabetical table of contents (fol. 1b) Hand note: Written in black and red naskh
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Shelf mark
Walters Art Museum Ms. W.590
Descriptive Title
Glossary of Islamic legal terminology
Text title
Al-Miṣbāḥ al-munīr fī gharīb al-Sharḥ al-Kabīr Vernacular: Note: Title appears on fol. 2b; originally written as a gloss on the commentary of ʿAbd al-Karīm al-Rāfiʿī (d. 623 AH / 1226 CE) on al-Wajīz fī al-furūʿ by Abū Ḥāmid Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Ghazzālī (d. 505 AH / 1111 CE), entitled Fatḥ al-ʿazīz ʿalá kitāb al-Wajīz
Author
As-written name: Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī al-Muqrī al-Fayyūmī Name, in vernacular:
Abstract
This is a manuscript copy of al-Miṣbāḥ al-munīr fī gharīb al-Sharḥ al-Kabīr by Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Muqrī alFayyūmī (d. ca. 770 AH / 1368 CE). It is a dictionary of Islamic legal terms that was originally written as a gloss on the commentary of ʿAbd al-Karīm al-Rāfiʿī (d. 623 AH / 1226 CE) on al-Wajīz fī al-furūʿ by Abū Ḥāmid Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Ghazzālī (d. 505 AH / 1111 CE), entitled Fatḥ al-ʿazīz ʿalá kitāb al-Wajīz. The manuscript was copied by the shi`ite scribe ʿAlī ibn Muḥibb ʿAlī in 1083 AH / 1673 CE in Iran. The text was later collated with three other manuscripts in Mecca in 1166 AH / 1752 CE by Muḥammad al-Aṭrābazundī. The light brown goatskin binding with goldtooled oval central medallion, pendants, and cornerpieces is contemporary with the manuscript.
Date
1st Dhū al-Qaʿdah 1083 AH / 1673 CE
Origin
Iran
Scribe
As-written name: ʿAlī ibn Muḥibb ʿAlī Name, in vernacular:
Form
Book
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This document is a digital facsimile of a manuscript belonging to the Walters Art Museum, in Baltimore, Maryland, in the United States. It is one of a number of manuscripts that have been digitized as part of a project generously funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, and by an anonymous donor to the Walters Art Museum. More details about the manuscripts at the Walters can be found by visiting The Walters Art Museum's website www.thewalters.org. For further information about this book, and online resources for Walters manuscripts, please contact us through the Walters Website by email, and ask for your message to be directed to the Department of Manuscripts.
A digital facsimile of Walters Ms. W.590, Glossary of Islamic legal terminology Title: Al-Miṣbāḥ al-munīr fī gharīb al-Sharḥ al-Kabīr
Published by: The Walters Art Museum 600 N. Charles Street Baltimore, MD 21201 http://www.thewalters.org/
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/legalcode Published 2011