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. 232L [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Blind tooled bindings [Browse]
• Headbands [Browse]
• Autographs [Browse]
• Stamps [Browse]

Summary note

A compendium of Hanafite law.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from caption (fol. 1b).
• After colophon are several masāʼil and fawāʼid (fol. 251a-253a) and a table of contents (fol. 253b-[iii]a). Label on upper cover: "K.S 40".
• Collation: Paper ; fol. 253 + iii ; catchwords ; foliation in ink using Hindu-Arabic numerals ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 11 lines per page ; frame-ruled in gold and black.
• Description: Rubricated ; MS in fair condition, mended. First few folios defective.
• Incipit:بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله رب العالمين والعاقبه المتقين ... قال الشيخ الامام ابو الحسن احمد بن محمد بن جعفر البغدادى القدورى رحمه الله عليه كتاب الطهارة قال الله تعالى يا ايها الذين امنوا اذا قمتم الى الصلوة ...
• Colophon: تم الكتاب بعون الله الملك الوهاب

Binding note

Later type III (without flap) binding in brown leather. Blind-stamped mandorla and blind-tooled edging. Paper pastedowns with block-pressed design. Multi-colored endbands. Spine replaced with red leather.

Provenance

Seal impression (fol. 1a); signature with "Aleppo"[?] (fol. 1b); stamp in purple ink (fol. 2a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, A.D. 1904.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1675.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

1463113731

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