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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]

Scribe

• Ibn Jamāʻah, Muḥammad Nūr Allāh ibn ʻAbd al-Ḥaqq, active 18th century [Browse]

Related name

• ابن جماعة، محمد نور الله بن عبد الحق، active 18th century [Browse]
• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 258L [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Headbands [Browse]
• Watermarks [Browse]
• Autographs [Browse]
• Stamps [Browse]

Summary note

A collection of judicial opinions according to the Hanafite school.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from preface (fol. 1b).
• Marginal notes and glosses. Label on upper cover: "KE 318". Table of contents (fol. 1a).
• Collation: Paper ; fol. 325 + ii ; catchwords ; foliation in red ink using Hindu-Arabic numerals ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 33 lines per page.
• Description: Rubricated ; watermarks (crown, other unidentified, roman-alphabet countermark initials with trefoil) ; MS in fair condition; stained with dampness, many folios repaired along edges.
• Origin: According to colophon copy completed end of Rabīʻ al-Thānī 1126 by Muḥammad Nūr Allāh ibn ʻAbd al-Ḥaqq ibn Jamāʻah (fol. 325b).
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم رب يسر بالخير الحمد لله الذي وفق من اراد به الخير للتفقه في الدين ... وبعد فيقول العبد الفقير ابراهيم بن سليمان بن محمد بي عبد العزيز قد وجدت شيخنا العلامه الفهامه الشيخ محى الدين ...
• Colophon: وقد وافق الفراغ من نسخ هذه النسخة الميمونه التى نسخها ... محمد نور الله بن عبد الحق ابن جماعه فى اواخر شهر ربيع الثانى من شهور سنة الف ومايه وستة وعشرين غفر الله لكاتبها امين م

Binding note

Later quarter-bound type III (without flap) binding in dark brown leather and dark paper. Endbands.

Provenance

Seal impressions (fol. 1a). Ownership signature: al-Sayyid ʻAbd Allāh al-Barzanjī with his seal impression (fol. 325b). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1904.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1768.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

1340420634

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