An abridgment of the authorʼs own al-Wāfī fī al-furūʻ, a work on Hanafite law.
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
Heavily annotated with marginal notes. Label upside-down on upper cover: "M KE 125". Traditions, extracts, etc. (front pastedown, fol. 1a). Red and black circular design (fol. 5b).
Collation: Paper ; fol. 109 ; catchwords ; foliation in ink using Hindu-Arabic numerals ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 15 lines per page ; ruled.
Description: Rubricated ; vowel signs ; MS in fair condition.
Origin: According to colophon copy completed Friday 21 Shaʻbān ?? by Muḥammad ibn ʻAlawī al-Miṣrī al-Ḥanafī (fol. 108b).
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله الذي اعز العلم في الاعصار ... لما رايت الهمم مائلة الى المختصرات ...
Colophon: تم الکتاب بعون [الملك] الوهاب على يد اضعف خلق الله واحوجهم الى مغفرته محمد بن علوي المصري الحنفي ... فى يوم الجمعه وقت الدكار؟ حادى عشرين شعبان سنه ؟
Binding note
Later quarter-bound type III (without flap) binding in red leather and paper. Endbands.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1904.
Source acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1719.
Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), V, pp. 249/50.
Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 4575.
Other format(s)
Also available in an electronic version.
OCLC
1340424324
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