Details

Subject(s)

• Islamic law—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Shafiites—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Related name

• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 866H [Browse]

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Headbands [Browse]
• Autographs [Browse]
• Colored papers (Paper) [Browse]

Summary note

The twelfth volume of a voluminous work on Shāfiʻite law and jurisprudence beginning with the chapter on the dowry paid for a bride, ṣadāq, and ending with that on divorce, ṭalāq.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from title page (fol. 1a).
• A few marginal notes and glosses.
• Collation: Paper ; fol. 253 + i ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 21 lines per page.
• Description: Paper tinted pink ; MS in good condition.
• Origin: According to colophon copy completed Monday 17 Jumādá al-Awwal 630 (fol. 253b).
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم کتاب الصداق. قال الشافعي رحمه الله تعالى ذكر الله تعالى الصداق والاخر في كتابه وهو المهر ...
• Colophon: وافق الفراغ منه ىوم الاثنىن وقت صلوة الظهر سابع عشر جمادى الاولى سنة ثلاثىن وستمائة والحمد لله وحده وصلواته على سىدنا محمد وآله

Binding note

Later type II (with flap) binding in red leather and brown marbled paper. Multi-colored endbands.

Provenance

Ownership statments: ʻAlī ... ibn Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī ...; ʻAbd Allāh al-Baṣrawī? (fol. 1a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1778.
• Ibn Khallikān, Wafayāt (1299 AH), I, p. 585.
• Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), III, pp. 10/1.
• Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, III, pp. 215/6.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

1340421427

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