Details

Subject(s)

• Islamic law—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Shafiites [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Summary note

General treatise on Shafīʻī law.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from modern title page (fol. (ii)a).
• 26 lines per page. Written in medium small clear naskh in black ink for headings and re-inking. Thick light cream paper. The upper half of the first fol. is damaged with important loss of text. Some leaves are mended, with the text recopied on the repair (see fol. 1, 2). Inscription on fol. 169b. Modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals (omits the first fol.).
• Incipit (starting at "amma baʻd", the beginning of the text being partly lost partly illegible due to water damage): اما بعد فعلم الفقه بحوره زاخرة ورياضة ناضرة
• Explicit: ومسئلة من مات وعليه صوم القديم يصوم عنه وليه و مسئلة [---] عصا القديم استجابه اخر الكتاب

Binding note

Modern library binding.

Provenance

Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Mach, R. Yahuda, 1480
• Iqbāl, A. al-Shirqāwī. Maktabat al-Jalāl al-Suyūṭī (1977), no. 51
• Shaybānī, M. Dalīl makhṭūṭāt al-Suyūṭī (1995), no. 211

Other format(s)

• Microfilm negative available for reproduction.
• Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

79651722

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