[درر الحكام في شرح غرر الاحكام].

[Durar al-ḥukkām fī sharḥ Ghurar al-aḥkām].

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Manuscript, Book
Language
Arabic
Published/​Created
Rabīʻ al-Ākhir 1004 [December 1595]
Description
175 leaves : paper ; 290 x 198 (195 x 115) mm bound to 290 x 198 mm.

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Special Collections - Manuscripts Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 249Lq Oversize Browse related items Reading Room Request

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    Summary note
    A commentary on Ghurar al-aḥkām, the author's own work on Hanafite law.
    Notes
    • Ms. codex.
    • Title supplied by cataloger.
    • Marginal notes. MS incomplete at beginning, the first complete chapter being Kitāb al-Sariqah.
    • Collation: Paper ; fol. 175 + i ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
    • Layout: 25 lines per page.
    • Description: Rubricated ; text commented upon overlined in red ; watermarks (endpaper: three crescents; text: anchor?, roman-alphabet countermark initials with trefoil) ; MS in good condition.
    • Origin: According to colophon copy completed Rabīʻ al-Ākhir 1004 by Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Sharbātī (fol. 175a).
    • Beginning: ... بعض الحد فهرب فشرب ...
    • Colophon: وقد وقع الفراغ من تسويد هذه النسخة الشريفة فى شهر ربيع الآخر فى يوم الاربعاء قيل زوال الشمس على يد العبد الضعيف ... محمد بن شيخ محمد الشرباتى؟ عفى الله عنهما وغفر ذنوبهما وستر عيوبهما فى الدنيا والاخرة فى بلدة رومه فى باريخ اربع والف من مجرة النبوية
    Binding note
    Later type III (without flap) binding in brown leather with red leather spine. Blind-stamped mandorla with pendants and blind-tooled edging. Endbands. Indications that the MS may have had a type II binding at some time.
    Provenance
    Ownership signature: Yaḥyá ibn al-Sayyid Aḥmad Āghā Ṭarīḥī? ..zādah with his seal impression (fol. 1a). Seal impression (fol. 175a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1904.
    Source acquisition
    Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
    References
    Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1729.
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    Also available in an electronic version.
    OCLC
    1463932019
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