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. 961H [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• diagrams [Browse]
• tables (documents) [Browse]
• holographs (autographs) [Browse]

Related work(s)

• Jurjānī, ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad, al-Sayyid al-Sharīf, 1340-1413. Sharḥ Farāʼiḍ al-Sirājīyah. [Browse]
• جرجاني، علي بن محمد، السيد الشريف، 1340-1413. شرح فرائض السراجية. [Browse]

Summary note

A short essay correcting the tables contained in the chapter which is entitled al-Ṣinf al-awwal min dhawī al-arḥām in al-Farāʼiḍ al-Sirājīyah, a work on the law of inheritance by Sirāj al-Dīn al-Sajāwandī. The present work is a supplement to the corrections made by al-Sayyid al-Sharīf al-Jurjānī who emended one part of the tables. The remaining three parts are the subject of this MS.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from title page (fol. [i]a).
• A few marginal notes. MS illustrated with tables and diagrams. Incomplete at the end. Purportedly MS is an autograph copy.
• Collation: Paper ; fol. i + 6 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 23 lines per page.
• Description: Rubricated ; watermarks (unidentified design in circle) ; MS in good condition.
• Origin: probably from XVIIIth century
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم نحمدك بامن صورنا فى الارحام ... وبعد فيقول الفقير الى لطف ربه ... الجبرتى ... ان جدول البطون المتعددة الذي في الصنف الاول من ذوى الارحام ...
• Ending: التي هي بنت بنت بنت البنت عشرة وبذلك کمل للابن مائة واثنان وثلاثون ولا خته من ابيه ستة وخمسون

Binding note

Unbound.

Provenance

Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1882.
• Jabartī, ʻAjāʼib al- Āthār (1297 AH), I, p. 398.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

1340426104

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