A book on the ordinances relating to ablution and prayer according to the Ḥanafite school.
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from preface (fol. 1b).
Marginal notes and glosses. A folio is missing between folios 20 and 21. Prayer calendar on lower pastedown (labeled "35").
Collation: Paper ; fol. 34 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 23 lines per page ; ruled.
Description: Rubricated ; watermarks (crown-star-crescent, countermarks roman-alphabet initials "[?]B" with trefoil) ; MS in fair condition.
Origin: Probably from the XVIIth century.
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله رب العالمين ... ان انواع العلوم کثيرة واهم الانواع بالتحصيل مسائل الصلوة ...
Colophon: تم الکتاب بعون الملك الوهاب
Binding note
Later half-bound type III (without flap) binding in red leather and pink paper with gilt-pressed design.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1750.
Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), VI, p. 227.
Catalogus codicum arabicorum Bibliothecae Academiae Lugduno-Batavae, 1812.
Other format(s)
Also available in an electronic version.
OCLC
1405947029
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