Details

Subject(s)

• Islamic law—Interpretation and construction—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Hanafites—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Turkish—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• Illuminated manuscripts—Islamic Empire—15th century [Browse]

Related work(s)

• Burhān al-Sharīʻah, Maḥmūd ibn ʻUbayd Allāh, -1274 or 1275. Wiqāyat al-riwāyah. [Browse]
• برهان الشريعة، محمود بن عبيد الله، -1274 or 1275. وقاية الرواية. [Browse]

Summary note

A versification of Burhān al-Sharīʻah's Wiqāyat al-riwāyah, composed for Murad II [1404-1451] (fol. 7b); fihrist on fol. 4b-6a and fevaid on fol. 1a-4a, 230a-230b.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from fol. 6a.
• Physical description: 13 lines per page, in two columns; written in naskh in black on tan glazed, laid Arabic paper. Catchwords; rubrication in red and green. Foliated in Arabic script. Light staining; some leaves are detached. In excellent condition.
• Decoration: Title written in gold and set within a medallion on fol. 6a. Basmalah written in white and set within a box illuminated with gold and color on fol. 6b.
• Origin: 883 H [1478 or 9] (fol. 229b).
• Incipit: اول اسم الله اله بشلادق اوش * اىش بسم الله اله قلدق زخوش

Binding note

Full brown leather with blind-stamped central mandorla and pendants; marbled paper doublures.

Language note

Ottoman Turkish.

Provenance

Smudged owner's stamp on fol. 6b.

OCLC

823650766

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