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Subject(s)

• Inheritance and succession (Islamic law)—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Waqf—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Abū al-Saʻūd Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad 1492 or 1493-1574 or 1575—Fī jawāz waqf al-nuqūd [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Related name

• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 928H [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Watermarks (Paper) [Browse]

Contains

• Birgivî Mehmet Efendi, approximately 1522-1573. Sayf al-ṣārim. [Browse]
• بركوي، محمد افندي، approximately 1522-1573. سيف الصارم. [Browse]

Summary note

Two Islamic legal texts dealing with bequests.

Notes

• Ms. composite codex.
• Title from collective title page (fol. [ia]).
• Marginal notes and glosses.
• Collation: Paper ; fol. ii + 65 (4 blank folios after f. 38) ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 15 lines per page ; ruled.
• Description: Rubricated ; overlining in red ; watermarks (crown-star-crescents with roman-alphabet countermark "AC" with trefoil) ; MS in good condition.
• Origin: Probably from the XIXth century.
• Incipit: [رسالة شرح الفرائض] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله رب العالمين والصلوة والسلام على محمد آله اجمعين يبدأ من ترکة الميت بکسرالراء بمعنى... -- [رسالة معمولة لابطال ووقف النقود] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله رب العالمين والصلوة والسلام على محمد وآله اجمعين وبعد فهذه رسالة معمولة لابطال وقف النقود بدون الوصية والاضافة الى الموت المحدود ...
• Colophon: [رسالة شرح الفرائض] يصح على تقدير حياته وعلى وفاته ثم ينظرالى آخرما ذکرفي الحمل تم تم تم -- [رسالة معمولة لابطال ووقف النقود] تم بحسن توفيقه تعالى وقت الضحى يوم [ا]لثالث في شهور ضفر الخير

Binding note

Contemporary? half-bound type III (without flap) binding in brown leather and marbled paper.

Language note

Arabic;

Script

Fārisī.

Contents

• 1. fol. [ii]b--28a: Risālat Sharḥ al-Farāʼiḍ. A commentary on a short work of jurisprudence dealing with bequests. Contains tables.
• 2. fol. facing 29a-65a: Risālah maʻmūlah li-ibṭāl waqf al-nuqūd. Reply to Abū Suʻūd's treatise which approves of and advocates the endowment of money without a legal testament.

Provenance

Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1883, 1880.
• Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), III, p. 642.
• Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, VII, pp. 124, 405.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

Other title(s)

• Risālat Sharḥ al-Farāʼiḍ.
• رسالة شرح الفرائض.
• Sayf ṣārim ʻalá Risālat Abū al-Saʻūd fī waqf al-nuqūd.
• سيف صارم على رسالة ابو السعود في وقف النقود.
• Risālah maʻmūlah li-ibṭāl waqf al-nuqūd.
• رسالة معمولة لابطال وقف النقود.

OCLC

1340423402

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