Details

Subject(s)

• Inheritance and succession (Islamic law)—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Ibn al-Mutafanninah, Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī 1103 or 1104-1181 or 1182—Urjūzah al-Raḥbīyah [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Scribe

• Abū al-Suʻūd, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad, active 18th century [Browse]

Related name

• ابو السعود، احمد بن محمد، active 18th century [Browse]
• ʻAdawī, Aḥmad ibn Mūsá al-Bīlī, 1728 or 1729-1798 [Browse]
• عدوي، احمد بن موسى البيلي، 1728 or 1729-1798 [Browse]
• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 277L [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Watermarks [Browse]

Summary note

A collection of notes, mostly on the law of inheritance, taken by a student from the lectures of al-Bīlī, a professor at al-Azhar University.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from preface (fol. 1b).
• Inscription (fol. 1a). "Fāʼidah li-abṭāl al-saḥar" (fol. 38b).
• Collation: Paper ; fol. 38 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 34 lines per page.
• Description: Watermarks (three crescents) ; MS in good condition.
• Origin: According to colophon copy completed Wednesday [1] Rajab 1204 by Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Maghribī, known as Abū al-Suʻūd at Jāmiʻ al-Azʹhar (fol. 38a).
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله وارث ... فهذه تقريرات نفيسة شريفه اخذتها من فم شيخنا البيلى حفظه الله على السبط على الرحبيه ...
• Colophon: تمت هذه النسخة ظهر يوم الاربعاء غرة رجب سنة الف ومائتين واربعة على يد قليل العمل کثيرالزلل احمد بن محمد بن احمد المغربي الشهير بابوالسعود بالجامع الازهر غفرالله له ولوالديه ولمشايخه ولمن طالعها واستغفر لکاتبها والحمد لله رب العالمين وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد وعلى اله وصحبه وسلم تسليما دائما الى يوم الدين

Binding note

Unbound.

Provenance

Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1904.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1884.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

Place name(s)

Egypt Cairo

OCLC

1472109383

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