Details

Subject(s)

• 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. 271L [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Watermarks [Browse]
• Autographs [Browse]

Summary note

An ode on the laws of inheritance.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from title page (fol. 1a).
• Marginal and interlinear notes and glosses. Inscriptions on title page (fol. 1a) and after the colophon (fol. 9b).
• Collation: Paper ; fol. 9 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 13 lines per page in two columns.
• Description: Rubricated ; vowel signs ; watermarks (crown-star-crescent) ; MS in fair condition.
• Origin: Probably from XVIIIth century.
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم اول ما نستفتح المقالا * بذكر حمد ربنا تعالى
• Colophon: تمت بحمد الله وعونه وحسن توفيقه اللهم ... وصلى الله علي سيدنا محمد وعلي اله وصحبه وسلم امين امين امين ...

Binding note

Unbound.

Provenance

Ownership signatures: Yūsuf; Muḥammad al-Sīyūfī "wa-qayyada bi-ismihi maʻa kutubihi" (fol. 1a); Aḥmad ibn Ṣāliḥ Sayf al-Dīn (fol. 9a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, A.D. 1904.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 2061.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

1340423892

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