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Subject(s)

• Mawṣilī, ʻAbd Allāh ibn Maḥmūd 1202 or 1203-1284—Mukhtār lil-fatwá [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. 259L [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Watermarks [Browse]
• Headbands [Browse]

Summary note

A commentary on al-Mukhtār fī furūʻ al-Ḥanafīyah. This copy begins with Kitāb al-Nikāḥ.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from caption on table of contents on title page (fol. 1a).
• Marginal notes. Label on upper cover: "KE 1031". Title page is smeared with ink, carries inscriptions and a table of contents (fol. 1a). Fāʼidah (fol. 223b).
• Collation: Paper ; fol. 223 + i ; catchwords ; foliation in ink using Hindu-Arabic numerals ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 17 lines per page.
• Description: Rubricated ; watermarks (anchor topped with a star, roman-alphabet countermark initials with trefoil) ; MS in good condition.
• Origin: According to colophon copy completed 27? Ramaḍān 971 by Abū Bakr Aḥmad ibn ... (fol. 223a).
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم کتاب النکاح. النکاح في اللغة الضم والجمع ...
• Colophon: والحمد لله وحده وصلى الله على من [لا] نبي بعده

Binding note

Later quarter-bound type III (without flap) binding in brown leather and dark paper. Multi-colored endbands.

Provenance

Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1904.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1714.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

1467730933

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