Details

Subject(s)

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

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Scribe

• Hunaydī, Aḥmad Walī al-Dīn ibn Aḥmad, active 16th century [Browse]

Related name

• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 892H [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Autographs [Browse]

Summary note

The first volume of a formulary treatise of legal documents.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from title page (fol. 1a).
• A few marginal notes and glosses. Folio (1) following the colophon has "Tarjamat al-marḥūm qāḍī al-quḍāh al-Shāfiʻī" and a method for finding the first day of the month.
• Collation: Paper ; fol. 260 + (1) ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 25 lines per page.
• Description: Rubricated ; MS in fair condition; first 5 folios are defective with some loss of text; stained with dampness.
• Origin: According to colophon copy completed Wednesday 14 Rabīʻ al-Thānī 960 by Aḥmad Walī al-Dīn ibn Aḥmad ibn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Hunaydī al-Mālikī al-Sāʻidī al-Khazrajī al-Anṣārī (fol. 260a).
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد واله وسلم الحمد لله الذي جعل مدارالاحکام الشرعية ...
• Colophon: کمل هذا الجزء ويتلوه ان شاء الله تعالى کتاب النکاح على يد معلقه لنفسه ولمن شاء الله تعالى من بعده من نسخة سقيمة جدًا لا يعتمد عليها. الفقير احمد ولي الدين بن احمد ابن احمد بن محمد الهنيدي المالکي الساعدي الخزرجي الانصاري غفرالله له ولوالديه ومشايخه وجميع المسلمين امين امين امين في ليلة يسفر صباحها عن نهار الاربعاء رابع عشر شهرربيع الثاني من شهورسنة ستين وتسعمائة والحمد لله وحده وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد اولاً واخرًا وظاهرًا وباطنا وسلم

Binding note

Later type II (with flap) binding in brown leather and paper. Upper cover missing.

Provenance

Ownership signatures: Muḥammad ibn [..] al-Dirrī[?] al-Shāfiʻī; Muḥammad ibn al-Minqār al-Ḥanafī al-madʻū bi-Shams al-Dīn; ʻAbd al-Laṭīf ibn Karīm[?] (fol. 1a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1824.
• Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), II, p. 644.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

Other title(s)

جواهر العقود

Title on lower edge of text block

• Jawāhir al-ʻuqūd

OCLC

1340421089

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