Details

Subject(s)

• Justice, Administration of (Islamic law)—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Punishment (Islamic law)—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Shafiites—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. 1870Y [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Stamps [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• holographs (autographs) [Browse]
• donation inscriptions [Browse]

Summary note

Autograph copy of a text concerning qiṣāṣ. Divided into unnumbered faṣl.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from title page (fol. 1a).
• Collation: Paper ; fol. 24 ; quires signed: 2-3 ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 21 lines per page.
• Description: MS in good condition.
• Origin: According to colophon copy completed end of Muḥarram 757 by the author (fol. 24a).
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم ... اما بعد حمد الله ... فهذه فصول محکمة المبانى ... تضمنت مسائل مهمة الاقتصاص ...
• Colophon: اخر بيان الاختصاص بما يمنع الاقتصاص فرغ منه ... خليل بن العلاى الشافغى ... المقدسى فى اواخر شهر المحرم سنه سبع وخمسين وسبعماء والحمد لله رب العالمين وصلواته على سيدنا محمد واله وسلم

Binding note

Unbound.

Provenance

Waqf statement and stamp: "waqafa ʻAbbās Aghā, Dār al-Saʻad[at], sanat 1080"; bookseller's label with "ELS No. 1807" (fol. 1a)

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

OCLC

1340461556

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