Details

Subject(s)

• Shaybānī, Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan approximately 750-804 or 805—Jāmiʻ al-kabīr [Browse]
• 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. 829H [Browse]

Rare books genre

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

Summary note

The second part of a commentary on al-Jāmiʻ al-kabīr, a corpus of Hanafite law by Abū ʻAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan al-Shaybānī.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from title page (fol. 2a).
• A few marginal notes. Inscription (fol.1a), list of sections (fol. 1b)
• Collation: Paper ; fol. 244 ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 21 lines per page.
• Description: Lacking most iʻjām diacritical marks ; MS in good condition except stained with water.
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم رب يسرواعن باب من اليمين في الاملا على احديهم ...
• Colophon: وکذا لو قال الغلام للذي في يديه ...

Binding note

Later type III (without flap) binding in brown leather. Blind-tooled circular motif with outer frame. Possibly a type II binding with flap removed. Multi-colored endbands.

Provenance

Signature: ʻAbd al-Karīm ibn [...], another obscured signature (fol. 2a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1685.
• Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), II, p. 566.
• Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, III, p. 17/8.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

Other title(s)

ثاني من شرح الجامع الكبير

Title from lower edge of text block

• Thānī min Sharḥ al-Jāmiʻ al-kabīr

OCLC

1376283798

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