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Title

Kanz al-daqāʼiq.
كنز الدقائق

Authors

• Nasafī, ʻAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad, -1310
  نسفي، عبد الله بن احمد،

Call number

Oversize Ms. Codex 1896
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9977459941003681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1083522904

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Arabic

Origin

Date

A.H. 1015 (1607)

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).
   

Watermark

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.

Extent

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

Foliation

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

Support

Paper

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.

Layout

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

Decoration

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

Script

Written in naskh in black ink; pointed, vocalized.

Provenance

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

Subjects topical

• Hanafites--Early works to 1800
• Islamic law--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Manuscripts, Arabic,--17th century
• Codices
• Blind tooled (decoration)

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1v — Kanz al-daqāʼiq.

Decorations

• fol. 1r — Notations