هذا كتاب فتاوى كبير.

Hādhā Kitāb Fatāwá kabīr.

Uniform title
Format
Manuscript, Book
Language
Arabic
Published/​Created
1140 [1727 or 1728]
Description
423 leaves : paper ; 206 x 140 (160 x 87) mm bound to 213 x 147 mm.

Details

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Donor
Related name
Rare books genre
Summary note
A collection of judicial decisions according to Hanafite law and jurisprudence.
Notes
  • Ms. codex.
  • Title from preliminary page (fol. [iii]a).
  • A few marginal notes. On back of the first page and on four folios before is a table of contents (fol. [iii]b-3b). Break after folio 201 assumed to be in the middle of the text.
  • Collation: Paper ; fol. iii + 423 + i ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
  • Layout: 19-21 lines per page.
  • Description: Written in Fārisī and general scripts ; watermarks (three crescents; crown-star-crescent; countermark roman-alphabet letters "?V" with trefoil) ; MS in good condition.
  • Origin: According to colophon copy completed 1140 by Ibn ʻUmar (fol. 420b).
  • Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم حمد لله على ما انعمه علينا من نهج العلوم الشرعية ... اما بعد فلما کان خير ما يصرفه الانسان الى العلوم الشرعية قد عرفتم اخوانى ابدكم الله تعالى ...
  • Colophon: تمت عام تاريخ سنة 1140 کتبه بن عمر الحقير الفقير المحتاج الى رحمة الله تعالى احسن [الله الى] والديهما واليه
Binding note
Later type II (with flap) binding in brown leather covered with paper. Blind-stamped mandorla with pendants on covers and flap revealed by cut-outs in the paper. Endbands. Flap detached.
Language note
Arabic;
Script
Fārisī.
Provenance
Seal impression (fol. 5a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1776.
Other format(s)
Also available in an electronic version.
Other title(s)
كتاب فتاوى كبير
Title from lower edge of text block
  • Kitāb Fatāwá kabīr
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