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رسالة شرح الفرائض. سيف صارم على رسالة ابو السعود في [و]قف النقود / للبركوي.
Risālat Sharḥ al-Farāʼiḍ. Sayf ṣārim ʻalá Risālat Abū al-Saʻūd fī [w]aqf al-nuqūd / lil-Birkawī.
1800-1899
Two Islamic legal texts dealing with bequests.
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- Publisher
- [19th century?]
- People
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- Related Name
- Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 928H
- Language
- Arabic
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Item Summary
Two Islamic legal texts dealing with bequests.
Descriptive Information
- Title
- رسالة شرح الفرائض. سيف صارم على رسالة ابو السعود في [و]قف النقود / للبركوي.
- Transliterated Title
- Risālat Sharḥ al-Farāʼiḍ. Sayf ṣārim ʻalá Risālat Abū al-Saʻūd fī [w]aqf al-nuqūd / lil-Birkawī.
- Call Number
- Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 928H
- Identifier
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dc7m01bz22r
- Publisher
- [19th century?]
- Language
- Arabic
- Date Created
- 1800-1899
- Format
- Manuscript
- Extent
- 65 leaves : paper ; 206 x 140 (135 x 64) mm bound to 206 x 140 mm.
- Provenance
- Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
- Source Acquisition
- Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
- References
- Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1883, 1880.
- Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), III, p. 642.
- Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, VII, pp. 124, 405.
- Rights Statement
- Copyright Not Evaluated
- Contents
- 1. fol. [ii]b--28a: Risālat Sharḥ al-Farāʼiḍ. A commentary on a short work of jurisprudence dealing with bequests. Contains tables.
- 2. fol. facing 29a-65a: Risālah maʻmūlah li-ibṭāl waqf al-nuqūd. Reply to Abū Suʻūd's treatise which approves of and advocates the endowment of money without a legal testament.
- Notes
- Ms. composite codex.
- Title from collective title page (fol. [ia]).
- Marginal notes and glosses.
- Collation: Paper ; fol. ii + 65 (4 blank folios after f. 38) ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
- Layout: 15 lines per page ; ruled.
- Description: Rubricated ; overlining in red ; watermarks (crown-star-crescents with roman-alphabet countermark "AC" with trefoil) ; MS in good condition.
- Origin: Probably from the XIXth century.
- Incipit: [رسالة شرح الفرائض] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله رب العالمين والصلوة والسلام على محمد آله اجمعين يبدأ من ترکة الميت بکسرالراء بمعنى... -- [رسالة معمولة لابطال ووقف النقود] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله رب العالمين والصلوة والسلام على محمد وآله اجمعين وبعد فهذه رسالة معمولة لابطال وقف النقود بدون الوصية والاضافة الى الموت المحدود ...
- Colophon: [رسالة شرح الفرائض] يصح على تقدير حياته وعلى وفاته ثم ينظرالى آخرما ذکرفي الحمل تم تم تم -- [رسالة معمولة لابطال ووقف النقود] تم بحسن توفيقه تعالى وقت الضحى يوم [ا]لثالث في شهور ضفر الخير
- Binding Note
- Contemporary? half-bound type III (without flap) binding in brown leather and marbled paper.
Physical Characteristics
- File Count
- 152
Institutional Information
- Collection
- Manuscripts of the Islamic World
- IIIF Manifest URL
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https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/f91cc13a-3f4d-4269-8ea1-e5a474347550/manifest