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. 233L [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Blind tooled bindings [Browse]
• Headbands [Browse]
• Watermarks [Browse]

Summary note

A compendium on Hanafite law. Incomplete at end.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from later title page (fol. (i)a). Title also appears at beginning of replacement page (fol. 1b).
• Marginal notes and glosses. Labels on upper cover: "Qudūrī qimmah" and "F.G 12". Masāʼil and other inscriptions (pastedowns and fol. (i)a). Table of contents (fol. (i)b-(ii)a).
• Collation: Paper ; fol. ii + 124 ; catchwords ; foliation in ink using Hindu-Arabic numerals ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals (foliation skips 123).
• Layout: 15 lines per page.
• Description: Overlining in red ; watermarks (three crescents, roman-alphabet countermark initials) ; MS in good condition. First folio replaced by a later hand.
• Origin: Probably from the XVIIth century.
• Incipit: هذا كتاب قدوري بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه نستعين كتال الطهارة قال الله تعالى وتبارك يا ءتها؟ الذين امنوا اذا قمتم الي الصلوة ...
• Ending: ... ولا يجوز احداث بيعة ولا كنيسة فى دار الاسلام اذا انهدمت ...

Binding note

Later type II (with flap) binding in dark brown leather. Blind-stamped mandorla on cover. Blind-tooled edging on covers and flap. Remnants of upper endband.

Provenance

Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1904.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1676.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

1463113820

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