Details

Subject(s)

• 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. 917H [Browse]

Rare books genre

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

Summary note

A work on jurisprudence.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title supplied by cataloger.
• Marginal and interlinear notes and glosses. Inserts. Inscriptions and signatures on fol. 1a. On two folios after the colophon are several notes on jurisprudence.
• Collation: Paper ; fol. 40 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 13 lines per page; frame-ruled in red.
• Description: Watermarks (coat-of-arms with countermark roman-alphabet initials "MA") ; MS in good condition; worm-eaten.
• Origin: According to colophon copy completed Ṣafar 1134 or 1139 by Ibn Qāḍī Munlā (fol. 38b).
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم کتاب الطهارة. الماء على ثلثة اقسام طاهر وطهور وهو الباقى على الباقى ...
• Colophon: قد تمت هذه النسخة الشريفة في يوم الاحد وفي وقت الضحى وفي مدرسة عثمان چلبي ومدرسة عيسي چلبي وفي زمان سعده سرى خان وفي ... الاخر کاتبه وصاحبه ابن قاضي منلا تمت

Binding note

Later type II (with flap) binding in brown leather and paper. Purple paper pastedowns. Cover evidently re-used as the width does not match the contents.

Language note

Arabic;

Script

Fārisī.

Provenance

Ownership signature: Muṣṭafá Munlā ibn Quzmān Qāḍī Ṣūfī ibn Muḥammad (fol. 1a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1656.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

1389420223

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