Details

Subject(s)

• Islamic law—History—12th century—Sources [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Summary note

Versified treatise on debated points of law. The text is preceded and followed on fol. 1a-8a and fol. 174b-177b, by several short excerpts apparently by the same hand as the main text.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from end of text (fol. 173b).
• Physical description: 11 lines per page in two columns. Written in medium small naskh in black ink with use of red. The text is vocalized. Thick dark cream paper, soft, with laid lines. Marginal and interlinear annotations.
• Chiefly quaternions.
• Inscription in Arabic script in red pencil on the pastedown of the upper cover: "Raqm 27".
• Origin: According to colophon, copied by Ḥasan ibn Bashlāmish [isolated letters on fol. 173b], middle of Rajab 782 [Oct. 1380], from a copy dated Ṣafar 540 (fol. 173b and 174a). The last page is copied twice, on fol. 173b and 174a.
• Incipit: بسم ... وبه نستعين بسم الاله رب كل عبد والحمد لله ولى الحمد
• Explicit: وربنا اعلم بالصواب قد انتهى نظم الخلافيات

Binding note

Bound in brown leather with flap (envelope flap wanting). Blind tooled.

Provenance

Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Mach, R. Yahuda, 1670
• Brockelmann, C. GAL, I, 428/II ; SI

Other format(s)

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

OCLC

232959429

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