Arabic MS 297 (The John Rylands Research Institute and Library, The University of Manchester)

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Summary of Contents: A compendium of Hanafi law composed by al-Nasafī in the late 14th - early 13th century and copied in 1789/1790 CE.
Title: Kanz al-daqāʿiq
Title: كنز الدقائق
Title: Treasure of Subtleties
Author: Nasafi, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad, d. 1310 النسفى، عبد الله بن احمد حافظ الدين ابو البركات
Language(s): Arabic

According to the colophon the manuscript was completed in the month of Jumada in 1203 (or 1204) AH (1789 or 1790 CE). The last digit of the date in the colophon could be ٣ (3) or ۴ (4). AH.

Marginal notes.

Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله الذي اعز العلم في الاعصار واعلي
Explicit: ومن صالح من الورثة علي شيي فجعل كان لم يكن واقسم لم بقي علي سهام لم بقي
Colophon: تمام شد كنز الدقائق سنه ١٢٥٣ هجري جمادي
Title: كتاب الطهارة وقرض الوضوء
Title: كتاب الصلوة
Title: كتاب الزكوة
Title: كتاب الصوم
Title: كتاب الحج
Title: كتاب الرضاع
Title: كتاب الطلاق
Title: كتاب العتاق
Title: كتاب الايمان
Title: كتاب الحدود
Title: كتاب السرقة
Title: كتاب السير
Title: كتاب اللقيط
Title: كتاب اللقطه
Title: كتاب الابق
Title: كتاب المفقود
Title: كتاب اللشركة
Title: كتاب الوقف
Title: كتاب البيوع
Title: كتاب الحقوق
Title: كتاب الصرف
Title: كتاب الكفالة
Title: كتاب القاضي
Title: كتاب الشهادة
Title: كتاب الوكالت
Title: كتاب الدعوي
Title: كتاب الاقرار
Title: كتاب المضاربة
Title: كتاب الوديعه
Title: كتاب العارية
Title: كتاب الهبة
Title: كتاب الاجارة
Title: كتاب المكاتبة
Title: كتاب الولاء
Title: كتاب الاكراه
Title: كتاب الحجر
Title: كتاب الماذون
Title: كتاب الغصب
Title: كتاب الشفعة
Title: كتاب الكمزارعة
Title: كتاب المسافات
Title: كتاب الذباع
Title: كتاب الاضحية
Title: كتاب الكزاهية
Title: كتاب احياء الموات
Title: كتاب الاشربة
Title: كتاب الصيد
Title: كتاب الرهن
Title: كتاب الجنايات
Title: كتاب الديات
Title: كتاب المعاقل
Title: كتاب الوصايا
Title: كتاب الفوايض

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: Paper
Extent: 185 folios (i+185+i)
Dimensions (leaf): 290 × 180 mm.
Dimensions (written): 215 × 110 mm.
Foliation: Modern foliation in Western Arabic numerals in pencil.

Collation

Catchword on every verso.

Condition

Worm damage, earlier repairs.

Layout

Uniform layout. The text is in a frame of red and black lines. The headings of the chapters are in red, the important words are sometimes overlined in red.

Hand(s)

Large, clear Indian Naskh script, in black and red ink.

Binding

Leather binding, with golden centrepiece and corners, decorated with floral motifs.

History

Origin: 1203 or 1204 AH (1789 or 1790 CE)

Provenance and Acquisition

Previously in the collection of Colonel George William Hamilton (1807-1868) who served in India from 1823 to 1867, latterly as Commissioner of Delhi. He acquired over a thousand Indian and Persian manuscripts, from which the British Museum selected 352, now held in the British Library. His label on back paste-down: Hamilton MSS 92. Note on contents and date on folio 1a by Hamilton.

Formerly in the collection of Alexander Lindsay, 25th Earl of Crawford (1812–1880) Crawford, Alexander Crawford Lindsay, 1812-1880. His bookplate on back paste-down: Bibliotheca Lindesiana 3/F

Purchased by Enriqueta Rylands (1843–1908) Rylands, Enriqueta, 1843–1908 in 1901 from James Ludovic Lindsay, 26th Earl of Crawford (1847–1913) Crawford, James Ludovic Lindsay, Earl of, 1847–1913 .

Purchased by Enriqueta Rylands in 1901 from James Ludovic Lindsay, 26th Earl of Crawford, for the John Rylands Library.

Bequeathed by Enriqueta Rylands (1843–1908) in 1908 to John Rylands Library.

Record Sources

Catalogue information compiled by Abdullah al-Rashidi from Alphonse Mingana, Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the John Rylands Library, Manchester University Press, 1934. Revised and expanded by Zsófia Buda.

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