Details

Subject(s)

• Advisory opinions (Islamic law)—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Islamic law—Sources—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Fatwas—Turkey—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Turkish—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Compiler

• Ataullah Mehmet Efendi, -1715 [Browse]

Contains

Hacı Halil, Müftü of Balikesri, fl. ca. 1766. Fetvas. [Browse]

Summary note

A collection of fetvas by Șeyhülislâm Minkarizade Yahya, collected and edited by his pupil and Șeyhülislâm himself, Mehmet Ataullah Efendi (d. 1715). This copy does not have an introductory section which appears in other copies of this collection (see Verzeichnis der Orientalischen Handschriften in Deutschland, XIII, 4, no. 80).

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from fol. 4a.
• Copied in Balikesri, by Abdullah bin Fazlî, and completed in the middle of Rabīʻ al-Awwal 1152 (1739) -- colophon (fol. 269).
• 33 lines per page. Written in small nastaʻlīq in black ink with use of red. Text is within a frame outlined in one line of red ink. Ff. 4b-5a have a wide gold leaf frame outlined in black ink, and fol. 4b has a large illuminated head piece, executed in solid gold leaf, with orange and pink watercolor around the edges. Foliation in Arabic numerals in black ink. Glazed European paper. Ff. 2b-3b have a table of contents in black and red ink.
• Ms. additions: Another fetva added in a later hand following the colophon on fol. 269a; several fetvas added on ff. 269b-270a, most of them by Hacı Halil, the Müftü of Balikesri and a previous owner of the book (see provenance note below); a few short inscriptions (a prayer etc.) on ff. 1a and 4a.
• Incipit: زيد مؤمن بر ا مرذى باله شروع ايتكده نه ايله بداء اتمك كركدر كه مبارك اوله الجواب
• Explicit: البرهانى فى كتاب ما يمنع عنه الانسان وما لايمنع

Binding note

Burgundy leather with envelope flap. A gold roll, fillets and small rosetta stamps around the borders of upper and lower covers and the envelope flap. Pastedowns and lining to the envelope flap in brown with red marbled paper. Flyleaves in a different, brown, yellow and blue marbled paper. Lining to the fore edge flap in red leather. Label on the upper cover: "Thānī 295".

Language note

In Ottoman Turkish.

Provenance

• Ownership signature on fol. 4a in the name of Gökc̦e Zade Ahmet Efendi.
• Ownership signature on fol. 4a in the name of Seyyid Hacı Halil, the Müftü of Balikesri, dated 1180 (1766-67).
• Ownership signature on fol. 4a, accompanied by a small circular seal which reads: "Hacı Mehmet", in the name of Abdulkadir Zade Șeyh Hacı Mehmet Efendi, dated 1228 (1813).
• A purchase note, dated Rabīʻ al-Awwal 1190 (1776), and 3 octagonal seals reading: "Halil 1312 (1894-95)", "Seyyid Mehmet", and "Mehmet bin Halil", all on fol. 4a.
• Originally acquired by Robert Garrett from Abraham Shalom Yahuda ; 1942.
• Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda. Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda. Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda. Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Rieu, C. Catalogue of the Turkish Manuscripts in the British Museum, Add. 7836
• Verzeichnis der Orientalischen Handschriften in Deutschland, XIII, 4 (no. 80)

OCLC

1340394632

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