Details

Subject(s)

• Hanafites—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Islamic law—Early works to 1800 [Browse]

Scribe

• Ḥusaynī, Ibrāhīm ibn ʻAlī, active 1554 [Browse]
• حسيني، ابراهيم بن علي،, active 1554، [Browse]

Former owner

• Bākīr ibn Muṣṭafá Fūṭī [Browse]
• باكير بن مصطفى فوطي، [Browse]
• Sulzberger, Mayer, 1843-1923 [Browse]
• Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning [Browse]

Summary note

Short introduction to the madhhab of Abū Ḥanīfah.

Notes

• Binding: Bound in brown leather over pasteboard with blind-stamped central mandorla and two corner-pieces on the vertical axis; black leather spine and edges; brown leather pastedown on back inside cover only.
• Decoration: Rubrications in red; textblock border-ruled in double red with a page-opening frame-rule in red.
• Foliation: Modern foliation added in pencil, upper left recto; catchwords every verso, lower left.
• Layout: Written in 9 long lines; border-ruled.
• Origin: Copy completed in Muḥarram 962 A.H. (December 1554 CE) by Ibrāhīm ibn ʻAlī al-Ḥusaynī (f. 234r).
• Script: Written in naskh in black ink; pointed.
• Title from introduction (f. 2r).

Location of originals

• Original Columbia, Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
• OPenn University of Pennsylvania Libraries.

Language note

Arabic.

Provenance

• Formerly owned by Bākīr ibn Muṣṭafá Fūṭī (note in ink, f. 1r).
• Formerly owned by the Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning (library bookplate adhered to paperboard wrapper).

Source acquisition

Gift of Mayer Sulzberger to the library of the Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning (library bookplate front inside cover).

Cite as

CAJS Rar Ms 145

OCLC

1190581264

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