A compendium of legal theory after the Hanafite school.
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 41a).
Marginal and interlinear notes and glosses. Inscriptions on upper pastedown. First table of contents on folios 3a-17a. Notes and extracts on folios 23a-38b and 306b-[ii]b. Second table of contents on folios 39a-40b. Title is on folio 41a and text begins on folio 41b. Numerous inserts throughout the manuscript.
Collation: Paper ; fol. 312 + iii ; catchwords ; folios 42-306 foliated in ink as 1-257 using Hindu-Arabic numerals ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 21 lines per page.
Description: Rubricated ; MS in good condition.
Incipit: الحمد لله و كفى وسلام على عباده الذين اصطفى وبعد فلما يسر الله سبحانة وتعالى اتمام كتاب الاشباه و النظاير الفقهية على مذهب الحنفيه الاول في فن القواعد ...
Colophon: وكان فراغ منه في السابع والعشرين من جمادى اليانى سنة تسع وستين وعسعمائة ... الحمد على التمام وعلى نبيه افضل الصلاة والسلام وصحبه البرره الكرام و.. باحسان الى يوم القيام وقد نحرت؟ هذه النسخة
Binding note
Later type II (with flap) binding in brown leather. Blind-stamped mandorla with pendants and blind-tooled edging on covers. Similar decoration on flap. Yellow paper pastedowns. Spine and fore-edge connection not original to covers.
Language note
Arabic;
Script
Fārisī.
Provenance
Signatures: ʻAlī ibn Ḥusayn Chāvushʹzādah dated 1189, Aḥmad Rifʻat ibn Muṣṭafá ʻĀṣim dated 1287 (fol. 1a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1743.
Other format(s)
Also available in an electronic version.
OCLC
1340423526
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