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]

Scribe

• Ibn al-Shalabī, Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī, active 17th century [Browse]

Related name

• ابن الشلبي، محمد بن علي، active 17th century [Browse]
• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 858H [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Headbands [Browse]
• Autographs [Browse]

Summary note

A collection of judicial decisions according to Hanafite law compiled by the authorʼs grandson, Nūr al-Dīn ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Shalabī, 1010 [1601/2], from works on jurisprudence by the author.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from title page (fol. 1a).
• A few marginal notes and glosses. The copyist is a great-grandson of the author. Additions on preliminary leaves.
• Collation: Paper ; fol. IV + 215 + ii (later paper) ; catchwords ; foliation in red using Hindu-Arabic numerals ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 19 lines per page.
• Description: Entries in red, green, and indigo ; MS in fair condition; worm-eaten. MS is rare.
• Origin: According to colophon copy completed 10[5]6 by Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Yūnus al-Ḥanafī, known as Ibn al-Shalabī. (fol. 215a).
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم رب سير واعن يا كريم الحمد لله القريب المجيب الذي سائل فضله ... اما بعد فيقول .. لطف ربه ذي اللطف الخفي علي بن محمد الحنفي ...
• Colophon: تمت الفتاوي بحمد الله وعونه وحسن توفيقه وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد وعلى اله وصحبه وسلم في يوم الجمعة المبارك ... من شهور سنة ست [وخمسين] والف على يد العبد الفقير محمد بن علي بن محمد بن احمد بن يونس الحنفي الشهير بابن الشلبي تاب الله تعالى عليه توبة نصوحاً ورزقه من المدد المحمدي فتوحاً بمحمده واله

Binding note

Later type II (with flap) binding in tan leather and marbled paper. Multi-colored endbands.

Provenance

Ownership signatures: ʻAlī ibn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Yaʻqūb .. dated 1184; purchased by Muṣṭafá ibn Aḥmad ibn .. Yaʻqūb dated 1206 (fol. 1a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1738.
• Ḥājji Khalīfah IV, p. 350.
• Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, VII, p. 10.
• Catalogus codicum arabicorum Bibliothecae Academiae Lugduno-Batavae, 1888.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

1340425092

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