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. 242L [Browse]

Rare books genre

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

Contains

• Rāzī, Muḥammad ibn Abī Bakr, active 1261. Tuḥfat al-mulūk. Turkish. [Browse]
• رازي، محمد بن ابي بكر، active 1261. تحفة الملوك. تركية. [Browse]

Summary note

A compendium of jurisprudence according to the Hanafite school of law with interlinear Turkish translation in red.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from title page (fol. 1a).
• Folios 169-204 are European paper and were supplied by a later hand and lack the Turkish translation. Short prayers and signatures (fol. 1a).
• Collation: Paper ; fol. 213 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 5 lines per page ; ruled.
• Description: Vowel signs ; MS in good condition.
• Origin: According to colophon copy completed 962? (fol. 213b).
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله وسلام على عباده الذين اسطفى هذا مختصر في علم الفقه جمعته لبعض اخواني في الدين ...
• Colophon: والاستعداد للقاء الله عزّوجل ونعيم الاخرة والله اعلم بالصواب واليه المرجع والمآب تمت سنة 962

Binding note

Later type III (without flap) binding in brown leather. Blind-and gold-tooled mandorla with pendants and decorative border.

Language note

Arabic and Ottoman Turkish.

Provenance

Ownership signatures: Muḥammad Ṣādiq, Bakr? ibn Aḥmad al-Ḥijjāj (fol. 1a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1904.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1717.
• Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), II, p. 240.
• Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 4517/8.
• Catalogue des manuscrits arabes de la Bibliothèque Nationale, 873.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

1340422402

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