Details

Subject(s)

• Inheritance and succession (Islamic law)—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Islamic law—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Shafiites—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• Autographs (manuscripts)—Palestine—Jerusalem—14th century [Browse]

Summary note

Autograph copy of a treatise on the laws of inheritance, comprising an introduction defining the science of inheritance, five chapters and a conclusion.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from title page (fol. 1a).
• The title also appears in the beginning of the text (fol. 1b, l. 14), and the name of the author in the colophon (fol. 107b).
• 17 long lines per page. Written in black ink with some use of red for headings and for the punctuation in the passages in rhymed prose (see fol. 1b, 14a). Light cream paper with horizontal laid lines visible. Vertical chain lines visible on some leaves. Some passages have been crossed out (see fol. 54b, 76b-77a). Very few notes in the margin (see fol. 49b). Several inscriptions on fol. 109b. Inscription "503" on the upper cover (corresponding to Brill's catalogue). Modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Collation: Paper ; fol. 109 ; 1⁸2¹⁰ (+1, f. 9) 3¹⁰ 4-11¹⁰ ; quires numbered using Arabic ordinals (starts on fol. 60a, "sābiʻah" ; traces on fol. 40a, partly cut off) ; catchword on the verso of each leaf.
• Autograph, Jerusalem ("al-Quds al-sharīf") on 29 Jumādá al-Ākhirah 800 H. [March 1398] (colophon, fol. 107b).
• Incipit: بسم ... رب ... برحمتك الحمد لله الذى جعل العلم اخلق ما تخلق به مخلوق وانفس ما تنافس به المتنافسون ... اما بعد فالغرض في هذا الكتاب بيان فضل علم الفرايض وبيان فضل
• Explicit: وقد كانت كل امة تجرى من دلك على عادتها وكانت العرب فى جاهليتها يتوارثون بالحلت(؟) وال[...] كما يتوارثون بالانسان طلبا للتواصل به انتهى فهذا اخر ما يسر الله تعالى ايراده في هذا الكتاب ولله الحمد اولا واخرا ظاهرا وباطنا سبحانك ... الحمد لله الذى هدانا لهذا وما كنا لنهتدى لو لا ان هدانا الله وصلي الله على سيدنا محمد خير خلقه واله وصحبته وسلم

Binding note

Upper and lower covers made of marbled paper pasted on brown leather over pasteboards. Blue thread (to attach a now missing envelope flap?). Inscription on the pastedown of the lower cover (originally upper cover). Disbound. The binding has been placed up side down at a time earlier than the inscription "503" mentioned in the physical description.

Provenance

Several ownership statements on fol. 1a, the earliest dated legible reading Dhū al-Ḥijjah 911 H. [April-May 1506]. Reading statement on fol. 108b-109a, in the name of Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd Allāh al-Ḥanafī [...] al-Dayrī, mentioning the author as still living. Reading statements on fol. 107b-108a (signed ʻAlī ibn al-Ḥasan from Sarmīn) and on fol. 109a (signed al-Mamlūk ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Muḥammad ibn Ismaʻīl ibn al-Qalqashandī). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900, from the books of Amīn ibn al-Ḥasan al-Ḥulwānī al-Madanī al-Ḥanafī (Medina).

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Hitti, P. Garrett coll., 1876
• Brockelmann, C. GAL, II, 125/4
• Brockelmann, C. GAL, SII, 155/4

Other title(s)

ترغيب الرائض في علم الفرائض

Title in beginning of text (fol. 1b, l. 14)

• Targhīb al-rāʾiḍ fī ʻilm al-farāʾiḍ

OCLC

67617126

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