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Subject(s)

• Inheritance and succession (Islamic law) [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Scribe

• Ibn Darwīsh, Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad [Browse]

Related name

• ابن درويش، ابراهيم بن محمد [Browse]
• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 276L [Browse]

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Headbands [Browse]
• Stamps [Browse]
• Watermarks (Paper) [Browse]

Summary note

A collection of six fragmentary works on inheritance. Although different, two bear the same title, Jawāhir al-farāʼiḍ.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title supplied by cataloger.
• Marginal notes.
• Collation: Paper ; fol. i + 71 ; catchwords ; watermarks (three crescents; circle topped by a crown; cross atop mounds; coat-of-arms) ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 15-17 lines per page.
• Description: Written in different hands ; MS in fair condition.
• Origin: MS probably from the early XlXth century. [Kitāb al-Farāʼiḍ] Copied by Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad ibn Darwīsh (fol. 40b)
• Incipit: [Treatise 1] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه النستعين الحمد لله العليم الحليم والصلاة والسلام على رسوله الكريم وعلى اله واصحابه الذين فازوا وامنه بخط جسيم -- [جواهر 1] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه النستعين كتاب الفرائض يخرج من تركة الميت حق تعلق في الحيوة بالعين فقط -- [Treatise 2] لما كان علم الفرايض مفتقرا الى الحساب شديد الحاجه الى معرفته افرد له -- [جواهر 2] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه النستعين كتاب جواهر الفرائض اعلم انه اذا مات انان اول ما يبدء من التركة ويحتاج اليه من ذلك
• Colophon: [جواهر 1] تمت جوهر الفرائض على يد اضعف الضعفاء واذل الطلباء وافقر الفقراء الراجي من الله العضو والرضاء في المعاد ويوم اللقا ابراهيم ابن محمد بن درويش حين رحم الله لمن نظر فيه وقراء لهم الفاتحه امين -- [Treatise 2] ... وهو الجواب. تمت -- [جواهر 2] تمت الاصطلاحات بعون الله تعالى علي يد حسن ابن ملا ابراهيم عفر الله له ولوالد كبته في اواخر سفر سنة 1131 في نهار الاحد تم تم تم تم ...

Binding note

Type III (without flap) binding in brown leather and paper with block-pressed design. Multi-colored endbands. Upper cover missing.

Contents

• 1. fol. ia-1a: [Inscriptions]
• 2. fol. 1b-20b: [Treatise on inheritance]
• 3. fol. 21a-21b: [Inscriptions]
• 4. fol. 22b-40b: Jawāhir al-farāʼiḍ.
• 5. fol. 41b-54a: [Treatise on inheritance]
• 6. fol. 54a-57a: [Fawāʼid] Extracts, lines of poetry, paragraph on coffee.
• 7. fol. 57a-63b: Kitāb Jawāhir al-farāʼiḍ.
• 8. fol. 64a-71a: [Masāʼil, and other inscriptions]

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Provenance

Seal impressions: fol. ia; ʻAbduh Saʻīd Muḥammad (fol. ib). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1904.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 2184.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

Other title(s)

• Jawāhir al-farāʼiḍ.
• جواهر الفرائض.

Title in Hitti, P. Garrett Collection

• Majmūʻah

OCLC

1352453379

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