• كتاب جامع الفصولين / للشيخ العلامة فريد دهره ووحيد عصره محمود ابن اسرائيل الشهير بابن قاضي سماونة عفا الله تعالى عنه ونفعنا بعلومه والمسلمين اجمعين وغفر له ورحمه والمسلمين اجمعين والحمد لله وحده
  • Kitāb Jāmiʻ al-Fuṣūlayn / lil-Shaykh al-ʻAllāmah Farīd dahrihi wa-waḥīd ʻaṣrihi Maḥmūd Ibn Isrāʾīl al-shahīr bi-Ibn Qāḍī Simāwnah ʻafā Allāh taʻālá ʻanhu wa-naffaʻanā bi-ʻulūmihi wa-al-muslimīn ajmaʻīn wa-ghafara lahu wa-raḥimahu wa-al-muslimīn ajmaʻīn wa-al-ḥamdu lillāh waḥdahu

Collections:
  • Robert Garrett
  • Princeton Digital Library of Islamic Manuscripts
  • Collections Donated to Princeton University Library
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Language:
  • Arabic
Creator:
  • Bedreddin, Şeyh, 1358?-1420
Call number:
  • Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 5802Y
  • Electronic Resource
Extent:
  • 289 leaves: paper ; 267 x 182 (190 x 128) mm. bound to 267 x 185 mm.
Format:
  • Manuscript
  • Book
Description:
  • Ms. codex.
  • Title from title page (fol. 4a). The name of the author appears in the title and the preamble as "Maḥmūd Ibn Isrāʾīl al-shahīr bi-Ibn Qāḍī Simāwnah".
  • Physical description: 29 lines per page. Written in medium small naskh in black ink with use of red ; yāʾ for alif maqṣūrah. Light cream paper; glossy; with a few lines visible. Marginal annotations. Table of abbreviations in a grid in red ink on fol. 3b-4a, apparently written by the same hand as the main text. Several inscriptions in later hands on fol. 1a-3a, including Kabīkaj, ownership statements, and table of contents. Title on tail of text block. Stained with water.
  • Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the upper cover: "Ḥ 117". Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the pastedown of the upper cover: "Ḥ 992".
  • Origin: According to colophon, copy completed 4 Jumādá al-Ūlá 935 [Jan. 14, 1529] (fol. 289b).
  • Basmallah: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد واله وصحبه وسلم
  • Incipit: الحمد لله الذي اعلى شان الشريعة وكرم من اتخذها اليه وسيلة وذريعة وجعلنا من امة خير خليفته ومن علينا باتباع طريقته محمد المبعوث الى كافة الانام وصلواته عليه وعلى اله الكرام اما بعد فان العبد الذليل محمود ابن اسرائيل الشهير بابن قاضى سماونه عفى الله تعالى عن سقطاته ولا يواخذه بعفواته يقول لما طالعت فى الفصولين الذين احدهما لمحمد بن محمود الاستروشنى والاخر لعماد الدين اسكنهما الله تعالى فراديس الجنان ...الفيتهما لاجل ما صنف فى الفتاوى
  • Explicit: فى ذمته لو ا اتلفه ولم يذكر انه اتلفه ولو التفه وطلبه فى بخاري وب...؟ فى بخارى لاقل او اكثر فهو بالخيار بين ثلثة اشيا اشيا على ما تقدم فلا بد من ان يبين قيمة كلا الموضعين والله سبحانه وتعالى اعلم
Publisher:
  • [1529]
Subject:
  • Islamic law—15th century
  • Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Title sort:
  • Kitāb Jāmiʻ al-Fuṣūlayn / lil-Shaykh al-ʻAllāmah Farīd dahrihi wa-waḥīd ʻaṣrihi Maḥmūd Ibn Isrāʾīl al-shahīr bi-Ibn Qāḍī Simāwnah ʻafā Allāh taʻālá ʻanhu wa-naffaʻanā bi-ʻulūmihi wa-al-muslimīn ajmaʻīn wa-ghafara lahu wa-raḥimahu wa-al-muslimīn ajmaʻīn wa-al-ḥamdu lillāh waḥdahu.
Alternative:
  • Kitāb Jāmiʻ al-Fuṣūlayn fī al-fatāwá
  • Jāmiʻ al-Fuṣūlayn
  • كتاب جامع الفصولين في الفتاوى
  • جامع الفصولين
Spatial:
  • New Jersey
Binding note:
  • Red-brown leather over paper pasteboards for upper and lower covers. Large blind stamped central mandorla filled with floral arabesque on both covers. Back and edges repaired. Paper pastedowns.
Provenance:
  • Several ownership statements on fol. 1a, some with impression of a seal, including one in the name of Aḥmad ibn ʻAbd al-Ḥalīm, qāḍī bi-Madīnat ---? (partly erased). Several ownership statements on fol. 5a, in the name of al-Shaykh ʻAbd Allāh al-Muftī (with seal); ʻAbd al-Wahhāb al-Qāḍī, dated 1104 H.; Muḥammad Makkī; al-Shaykh Muḥammad al-Muftī bi-...?, dated 1168 H.; Aḥmad Najīb ibn Aḥmad, dated 1282 H. Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
Source acquisition:
  • Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References:
  • Mach, R. Yahuda, 1092
  • Brockelmann, C. GAL, II, 225 (6/1) ; SII
Author:
  • Bedreddin, Şeyh, 1358?-1420
Created:
  • 1529-01-01T00:00:00Z
Date:
  • 1529
Abstract:
  • Handbook on Islamic law in forty faṣl composed in 814/1411 (GAL), based on the Fuṣūl by Muḥammad ibn Maḥmūd al-Ustarūshanī (GAL: Ustrūshanī, d. 632/1234) and that by ʻAbd al-Raḥīm ibn Abī Bakr al-Marghinānī (d. ca. 670/1271). See description of contents in the preamble, fol. 5b-10b.
Identifier:
  • ark:/88435/6395w971h
Location:
  • HSVM Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 5802Y
  • HSVM Electronic Resource
  • ELF1 Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 5802Y
  • ELF1 Electronic Resource
Edm rights:
  • No Known Copyright
Uniform title:
  • Jāmiʻ al-Fuṣūlayn
  • جامع الفصولين
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