Details

Subject(s)

• Sajāwandī, Sirāj al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad active 12th century—Farāʼiḍ al-Sirājīyah [Browse]
• Inheritance and succession (Islamic law)—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. 923H [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Watermarks (Paper) [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• diagrams [Browse]

Summary note

A commentary on al-Farāʼiḍ al-Sirājīyah, a compendium of the Muslim law of inheritance by Sirāj al-Dīn al-Sajāwandī. Contains diagrams.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from colophon (fol. 100b).
• Marginal and interlinear notes and glosses. Inscriptions (fol. 1a). Between folios 64 and 65 is inserted a leaf bearing notes. After the colophon are notes on divorce (fol. 101a) and a short essay on arithmetic (fol. 101b-102b).
• Collation: Paper ; fol. 102 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 17 lines per page.
• Description: Watermarks (figure? in a circle) ; MS in fair condition.
• Origin: According to colophon copy completed 902 by Amr Allāh Bālī ibn ? (fol. 100b).
• Colophon: تمت شرح الفرائض ﻟﺴﻴﺪ الشريف تاريخ سنة 902 اﺛﻨﻴ[ﻦ] وتسعمائة
• Beginning: قال المولى الشيخ الامام سراج الملة والدين محمد بن محمد بن عبد الرشيد السجاوندي نور الله مرقده ببد ماتين بالبسملة ...

Binding note

Later type II (with flap) binding in brown leather and marbled paper.

Language note

Arabic;

Script

Fārisī.

Provenance

Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1872.
• Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), IV, p. 401.
• Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, III, p. 308.
• Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 4705.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

Other title(s)

فرائض

Title on lower edge of text block

• Farāʼiḍ

OCLC

1389593400

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