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Subject(s)

• Hamza Efendi active 17th century—Risālah fī ḥaqq al-bayʻ wa-al-shirāʼ [Browse]
• Commercial law (Islamic law)—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Turkish—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Summary note

Tarikatçı Emir's commentary on Hamza Efendi's Risālah fī ḥaqq al-bayʻ wa-al-shirāʼ, a treatise on trade in Islam. According to the text, the commentary was completed on the 5th of Rajab 1129 (15th of June 1717) -- see explicit (fol. 146b).

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from fol. 5b.
• Copied by Abdullah bin Ali in Sarajevo, in the Katib Kasim Mahalle -- colophon (fol. 146b).
• 21 lines per page. Written in small naskh in black ink with use of red. Text is written within a frame outlined with single line of red ink. On fol. 5b-6a the frame lines are double. Some pages also have margins outlined in red ink. Fol. 5b has a simple triangular head piece made with two lines of red ink. Glazed white paper with visible chain lines and watermarks, blind ruled with narrow lines running parallel to laid lines. Catchwords on the verso of each leaf. Some marginal annotation throughout. Fol. 1b-4b contain table of contents ruled in red and filled in black ink. Foliation in Arabic numerals in black ink starts on fol. 6.
• Incipit: حمد وثنا اولسون اول الله عظيم الشانه كه عالملرى يوقدن وار ايدوب هر نسنهء ممكن اولان كمالنه ايرشدردى
• Explicit: اتمامى بيك يوز يكرمى طقوز سنه سنك آيلرندن رجب شريف اينك بشنجى كونى مبارك اثنين كوننده واقع اولمشدر شرحمز دخى مؤمنلره مبارك اوله امين

Binding note

Half leather with envelope flap. Orange marbled paper on covers (almost entirely faded, with blue and yellow veins painted over at places). Different marbled paper on envelope flap. Brown leather on spine and fore edge flap. Pastedowns in cream paper. Lining to envelope flap in glazed orange paper. Lining to fore edge flap in brown leather. Label on spine: "A134".

Language note

In Ottoman Turkish.

Provenance

• An ownership statement in black ink laced with silver glitter on fol. 1a, with the name partially crossed out: [Ibrahim] Hafız el-Kuran Mehmet ibn [el-Hacı Osman] Ali... [?]; this is accompanied by a small rectangular seal and the price for which it was bought (30 guruş).
• Originally acquired by Robert Garrett from Abraham Shalom Yahuda ; 1942.
• Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942

References

Verzeichnis der Orientalischen Handschriften in Deutschland, XIII, 4 (73)

Other title(s)

• Şerh-i Hamza Efendi risalesi
• شرح حمزه افندي رساله سي

OCLC

124070376

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