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ملتقى الابحر.
Multaqá al-abḥur.
Author
Ḥalabī, Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad, -1549 or 1550
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حلبي، ابراهيم بن محمد، -1549 or 1550
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Format
Manuscript, Book
Language
Arabic
Published/Created
[18th century?]
Description
221 leaves : paper ; 204 x 145 (135 x 80) mm bound to 209 x 150 mm.
Details
Subject(s)
Islamic law
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Early works to 1800
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Hanafites
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Early works to 1800
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Manuscripts, Arabic
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New Jersey
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Princeton
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Donor
Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961
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Related name
Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 252L
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Rare books genre
Watermarks
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Blind tooled bindings
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Getty AAT genre
manuscripts (documents)
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Summary note
A compendium of Ḥanafite law.
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from preface (fol. 5a).
Marginal and interlinear notes and glosses. Label on upper cover: "ZK 8". Inscriptions (fol. 1a). Table of contents (fol. 1b-3b). Life of the author (fol. 221a-221b) followed by lines of verse and other inscriptions (fol. 221b, lower pastedown). Inserts.
Collation: Paper ; fol. i + 221 ; catchwords ; foliation in red ink using Hindu-Arabic numerals ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 17 lines per page.
Description: Rubricated ; watermarks (coat-of-arms?, roman-alphabet countermark initials with trefoil) ; MS in good condition.
Origin: Probably from the XVIIIth century. Copied by Khalīl ibn Ibrāhīm (fol. 220b).
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله الذي وفقنا للتفقه في الدين ... وبعد فيقول المفتقر الى رحمة ربه المغنى ابراهيم بن محمد بن ابراهيم الحلبى قد سألنى بعض طاليي الاستفاده ان اجمع له كتابا يشتمل على مسآئل القدورى ...
Colophon: قد وقع الفراغ من کتابة هذا الکتاب بعون الله الملك الوهاب على يد اضعف ذوي الالباب خليل بن ابراهيم المدفون في التراب ازاد الله تعالى عمره في الشيب والشباب ووفقه بالحسن والصواب وختمه بالروح والصواب بعفوه وکرمه. تم
Binding note
Later type III (without flap) binding in red leather. Blind-tooled central design and decorative edging.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1904.
Source acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1739.
Hājji Khalīfah VI, pp 102/3.
Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 4613/4.
Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, III, p. 135.
Other format(s)
Also available in an electronic version.
OCLC
1466215079
Original language
ملتقى الابحر.
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله الذي وفقنا للتفقه في الدين ... وبعد فيقول المفتقر الى رحمة ربه المغنى ابراهيم بن محمد بن ابراهيم الحلبى قد سألنى بعض طاليي الاستفاده ان اجمع له كتابا يشتمل على مسآئل القدورى ...
Colophon: قد وقع الفراغ من کتابة هذا الکتاب بعون الله الملك الوهاب على يد اضعف ذوي الالباب خليل بن ابراهيم المدفون في التراب ازاد الله تعالى عمره في الشيب والشباب ووفقه بالحسن والصواب وختمه بالروح والصواب بعفوه وکرمه. تم
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