Details

Subject(s)

• Finance (Islamic law)—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. 537H [Browse]

Rare books genre

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

Summary note

A work on money-changing consisting of an introduction and 15 chapters.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from title page (fol. 1a).
• Collation: Paper ; fol. 20 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 23 lines per page.
• Description: Rubricated ; overlining and numerical segments in red ; watermarks (three crescents; small crown; roman-alphabet letters "A[?]" and "CLW"[?]) ; MS in good condition. Edges trimmed and to save colophon last folio is folded.
• Origin: According to colophon copied 1 Shaʻbān 1184 (fol. 20a).
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله رب العالمين وصلاة والسلام علي سيج المرسلين وعلي اله وصحبه اجمعين وبعد فهذه رسالة للفقير محمد الشافعي الجناجي الشهير بالعشماوي المالكي مشتملة علي طريق تحويل الانصاف الي القروش وعكسه ...
• Colophon: وکان الفراغ من تبييضها في غرة شعبان الذي هو من شهور سنة 1184 وکان الحامل على تبييضها الذکي الفطن سيدي عبد الرحمن بن خاتمة المحققين استاذنا الشيخ حسن الجبرتي الحنفي اطال الله في عمرهما. آمين

Binding note

Later? half-bound type III (without flap) binding in light brown leather and paper with block-pressed floral design. Blind-tooled edging. Light green paper pastedowns.

Provenance

Ownership statement of ʻAbd al-Raḥmān al-Jabartī al-Ḥanafī with his seal impression (fol. 1a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 783-A.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

Other title(s)

• Risālah laṭīfah fī taḥwīl al-muʻāmalah
• رسالة لطيفة في تحويل المعاملة

OCLC

1340423551

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