Details

Subject(s)

• Fatwas—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Hanafites—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Related name

• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 257L [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Blind tooled bindings [Browse]
• Headbands [Browse]
• Watermarks [Browse]

Summary note

A collection of judicial opinions according to the Hanafite school.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from title page (fol. 2a).
• Marginal summaries. Label on uppercover: "F.F 22". Tables of contents (fol. 1a and 3a). Inserts. Incomplete at the end. The work was compiled by the authorʼs son, Muḥyī al-Dīn, born in 1071 [1660/1], and completed by Ibrāhīm ibn Sulaymān ibn Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-ʻAzīz [al-Jinnī], 1108 [1696/7].
• Collation: Paper ; fol. ii +230 + ii ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 28 lines per page.
• Description: Rubricated ; watermarks (later paper used in repairs: cross; text: grapes?) ; MS in good condition.
• Origin: Probably from the late XVIIIth century.
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله الذي وفق من اراد به الخير للتفقه فى الدين ... وبعد فيقول العبد الفقير ابراهيم بن سليمان بن محمد بي عبد العزيز قد وجدت شيخنا العلامة الرحلة الفهامة الشيخ محى الدين ...
• Ending: سئل في رجل مات عن زوجة حامل لها بذمته مهر وعزام وثلاث بنات فما الحکم الشرعي

Binding note

Later type III (without flap) binding in red leather. Blind-stamped mandorla with pendants and blind-tooled decorative edging. Multi-colored endbands.

Provenance

Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1904.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1767.
• Catalogus codicum arabicorum Bibliothecae Academiae Lugduno-Batavae, 1894.
• Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, III, 89.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

1340421652

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