Details

Subject(s)

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

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Related name

• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 920H [Browse]

Summary note

Acephalous and defective copy of a compendium of Hanafite law and jurisprudence. First full chapter is Bāb al-Zakāh

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from inscription mentioning a price on the pastedown of the lower cover.
• Preliminary leaf covered with overlapping inscriptions.
• Collation: Paper ; fol. i + 125 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 9 lines per page.
• Description: Rubricated ; MS in fair condition; light staining.
• Origin: According to colophon, copy completed in 1083 H. (fol. 125a).
• Explicit: ولا مولى الموالى الّا عند عدمهم وان كان له موالى اعتقوه فهى باطلة تمت الكتاب بعون الله الملك الوهّاب
• Beginning as extant: ولا يجوز اداؤها الا بنية مقارنة لعزل الواجب او الاداء ومن تصدق بجميع ما له سقطت ... باب الزكوة السوايم السايمة التى تكتفى بالرعي

Binding note

Half-bound type III (without flap) binding in brown leather and paper over paper pasteboards. Covers in poor condition.

Provenance

Acquired by Robert Garrett from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1709.

Other format(s)

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

Other title(s)

مختار في الفروع

Title in Hitti, P. Garrett coll

• Mukhtār fī al-furūʻ

OCLC

180867427

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