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. 832H [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Blind tooled bindings [Browse]

Summary note

A compendium of Hanafite law.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from title page (fol. 2a).
• Marginal notes and glosses. On the folio before title page is a table of contents (fol. 1b). On folio 1a, the title page, and following the colophon on folios 104a-b are extracts; short inscriptions on folio 105b.
• Collation: Paper ; fol. i + 105 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 19 lines per page.
• Description: Rubricated ; watermarks (later endpaper only: eagle) ; MS in fair condition, worm-eaten.
• Origin: According to colophon copy completed Jumādá al-Ākhir 922 (fol. 104a).
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه نستعين الحمد لله رب العالمين والصلوة والسلام على نبيه محمد ... اعلم ان الفقه علم حسن وهو اجل من ساير العلوم وهو علم الدين والشريعة وقوام الشرايع ...
• Colophon: تم الکتاب بعون الله الوهاب في شهر جمادى الاخر من شهور سنة اثني وعشرين وتسعمائة

Binding note

Later type II (with flap) binding in paper. Blind-stamped mandorla under paper on upper cover.

Provenance

Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1670.
• Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), III, 135/6.
• Pertsch, Die orientalischen handschriften der Herzoglichen bibliothek zu Gotha, 991-3.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

1340424066

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