• المحيط على مذهب الامام الاعظم ابي حنيفة النعمان بن ثابت.
  • al-Muḥīṭ ʻalá madhhab al-Imām al-Aʻẓam Abī Ḥanīfah al-Nuʻmān ibn Thābit.

Language:
  • Arabic
Call number:
  • Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 835H
Extent:
  • 2 volumes (189, 226 leaves) : paper ; 253-260 x 173-177 (208 x 125-135) mm bound to 253-261 x 182-187 mm.
Format:
  • Manuscript
  • Book
Description:
  • Ms. codex.
  • Title from title page (vol. 1, fol. 5a).
  • Marginal notes and glosses. On several folios before the title page is the table of contents of the first volume. On two folios before the first in the second volume is a table of its contents. Extracts (vol. 1, fol. 4a). The edges are trimmed. The work is also known as al-Muḥīṭ al-Raḍawī.
  • Collation: Paper ; fol. ii + 189 + ii and ii + 226 + ii ; catchwords ; collation notes (see vol. 1, fol. 189b) ; foliation in ink using Hindu-Arabic numerals ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
  • Layout: 17 lines per page ; frame-ruled in indigo.
  • Description: Rubricated ; overlining and other use of red ; watermarks (later endpapers only: shield with a face-in-the-moon (v. 1), double-headed eagle (v. 2)) ; MS in good condition.
  • Decoration: Elaborate title page decoration in gold, red, blue, turquoise, gray and white (volume 1, fol. 5a). Title of first chapter written in gold.
  • Origin: According to colophon of volume 2, copy completed Thursday 14 Ramaḍān 936 by ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Majd al-Dīn al-Mālikī (volume 2, fol. 226a).
  • Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم رب يسر الحمد لله ذى المجد والجلال والكرم ... اما بعد فان من اشرف الامور وافضل العلوم عند الجهور بعد معرفة اصول الدين وعلم اليقين معرفة الفقه والاحكام ...
  • Colophon: وکان الفراغ من نسخ هذا الجزء في اليوم المبارك يوم الخميس الرابع عشر من شهر رمضان المعظم ... سنة 936 على يد فقير رحمة ربه بکم عبد الرحمن احمد بن محمد بن احمد ابن مجد الدين المالکي لطف الله تعالى به وغفرله ولوالديه ولمشايخه ولاخوانه ولاصحابه ولجميع المسلمين اجمعين امين وحسبنا الله ونعم الوکيل وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد واله وصحبه وسلم
Publisher:
  • 14 Ramaḍān 936 [May 22, 1530]
Subject:
  • Islamic law—Early works to 1800
  • Hanafites—Early works to 1800
  • Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
  • illuminated manuscripts
  • Autographs
  • Stamps
  • Blind tooled bindings
  • Headbands
Date:
  • 1530-522
Author:
  • Sarkhasī, Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, -1175 or 1176
Abstract:
  • Volumes one and two of a work on Hanafite law. The whole work is in ten volumes.
Creator:
  • Sarkhasī, Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, -1175 or 1176
  • سرخسي، محمد بن محمد، -1175 or 1176
Contributor:
  • مالكي، عبد الرحمن بن احمد، active 16th century
  • Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 835H
Scribe:
  • Mālikī, ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Aḥmad, active 16th century
Collections:
  • Middle East Manuscripts
  • Princeton Digital Library of Islamic Manuscripts
Edm rights:
  • No Known Copyright
Identifier:
  • ark:/88435/dc7d279535s
Donor:
  • Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961
Alternative:
  • Muḥīṭ Raḍawī
  • محيط رضوي
Spatial:
  • New Jersey
References:
  • Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1691.
  • Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), V, p. 433.
  • A catalogue of the Arabic manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, 206/7.
Binding note:
  • Later type II (with flap) binding in red leather. Blind-stamped inlaid mandorla with pendants and blind-tooled edging on covers. Similar decoration on flaps. Blue marbled paper pastedowns and flyleaves. Multi-colored endbands. Volume 2 in case (265 x 186 mm).
Provenance:
  • Volume 1, folio 3a has seal impression and the signature: Muftī Qāz̤īʹzādah (Fatḥī); folio 5a has signature: Muḥammad ibn Maḥmūd ibn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn al-Jazārī al-Ḥanafī. Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source acquisition:
  • Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
Location:
  • Special Collections Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 835H
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