Details

Subject(s)

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

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Related name

• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 3762Y [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Autographs [Browse]
• Watermarks (Paper) [Browse]

Contains

• Feyzullah Efendi, 1639-1703. Fetava-yi Feyziyye maan nükul. Selections. [Browse]
• فيض الله افندى، 1639-1703. فتاوى فيض الله مع النقول. مختارات. [Browse]
• منتشزاده عبد الرحيم، -1716. فتاواى عبد الرحيم. مختارات. [Browse]

Summary note

Two different collections of fetvas by Feyzullah Efendi, together with a selection of fetvas by Abdürrahim Menteşizade.

Notes

• Ms. composite codex.
• Title from 1a.
• Fol. 1b-2b have the table of contents for the first collection of Feyzullah's fetvas (text 2); they are followed by the selection of fetvas by Menteşizade (text 1) on fol. 3a and 4a, which is interrupted by a separate single fetva on fol. 3b, written in the same hand as the main text, and signed "katabahu Aḥmad Sūqī". Fol. 89b-90b have the table of contents for the second collection of Feyzullah's fetvas (text 3); they are followed on fol. 91a by a short paragraph in verse, signed "katabahu al-faqīr al-Sayyid Fayḍ Allāh". This second collection is wrongly identifed on fol. 1a as Fetava-yi Kirmânî, and below that on same fol. as Fetava-yi Akkirmânî (possibly referring to Mehmet Akkirmânî (d. 1760) or Ali Akkirmânî Efendi (d. 1657), etc.). Kabīkaj (invocation against bookworms) on fol. 1a. Short inverted inscriptions in a later hand on fol. 131b.
• Layout: 26-31 lines per page.
• Description: All texts are in a very similar hand and style, they are all written in medium small nastaʻlīq in black ink with use of red for rubrication, though the style of the script in texts 1 and 3 tends more towards taʻlīq. There are marginal annotations throughout texts 2 and 3, chiefly additional fetvas. The annotations all appear to be in the same hand. Irregular catchwords present. Glazed (European?) paper with visible watermarks. Foliation in Arabic numerals in black ink. Substantial water damage to the paper, especially in text 3, with some loss of text, either the marginal annotations or the edges of the main text. Some repairs to the paper.
• Incipit: [من فتاواى عبد الرحيم افندى] فى وطى السبيه وبيتوتها وفيه اقرار السبى بالنسب -- [فتاوى فيض الله افندى 1] كتاب الصلوة سلس بوله مبتلى اولوب صاحب عذر اولان زيده صاحب عذر اولميان كمسنه لر اقتدا اتمك جائز اولور مى الجواب اولماز -- [فتاوى فيض الله افندى 2] كتاب الطهارة مسئله هندك باشنه نزله علتى اولوب
• Explicit: [من فتاواى عبد الرحيم افندى] وقف ايجون ضبط ايدرم ديمكه قادر اولور مى الجواب اولماز -- [فتاوى فيض الله افندى 1] الجواب درت سهمدن اوج سهم زينبه بر سهم عمروه دكر -- [فتاوى فيض الله افندى 2] ضبط ايدرم ديمكه قادر اولور مى الجواب اولماز

Binding note

Marbled paper over pasteboard on covers with brown leather on spine. Endleaves in thick, rough ochre colored paper.

Language note

Ottoman Turkish;

Script

Nastaʻlīq

Contents

• 1. fol. 3a-4a: Min fetava-yi Abdürrahim Efendi.
• 2. fol. 4b-87a: Fetava-yi Feyzullah Efendi.
• 3. fol. 91b-129a: [Fetava-yi Feyzullah Efendi].

Provenance

• Ownership statement in the name of Mehmet Bahaüddin ... [?], accompanied by his stamp on fol. 1a. Partially visible ownership signature on fol. 1a (top left corner of the page, half of it torn off), in the name of Mehmet Salih.
• Originally acquired by Robert Garrett from Abraham Shalom Yahuda ; 1942.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

Özege, M. S., Eski harflerle, 5646, 5651.

Other title(s)

• Min fetava-yi Abdürrahim Efendi.
• من فتاواى عبد الرحيم افندى.
• Fetava-yi Feyzullah Efendi.
• فتاوى فيض الله افندى.

OCLC

145506000

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