Item Summary

Acephalous and defective copy of a compendium of Hanafite law and jurisprudence. First full chapter is Bāb al-Zakāh

Descriptive Information

Title
كتاب المختار
Transliterated Title
Kitāb al-Mukhtār.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 920H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dc9019sf01p
Publisher
1083 [1672 or 1673]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1672
Format
Manuscript
Extent
125 leaves: paper ; 183 x 130 (115 x 85) mm. bound to 183 x 140 mm.
Provenance
Acquired by Robert Garrett from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1709.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from inscription mentioning a price on the pastedown of the lower cover.
Preliminary leaf covered with overlapping inscriptions.
Collation: Paper ; fol. i + 125 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 9 lines per page.
Description: Rubricated ; MS in fair condition; light staining.
Origin: According to colophon, copy completed in 1083 H. (fol. 125a).
Explicit: ولا مولى الموالى الّا عند عدمهم وان كان له موالى اعتقوه فهى باطلة تمت الكتاب بعون الله الملك الوهّاب
Beginning as extant: ولا يجوز اداؤها الا بنية مقارنة لعزل الواجب او الاداء ومن تصدق بجميع ما له سقطت ... باب الزكوة السوايم السايمة التى تكتفى بالرعي
Binding Note
Half-bound type III (without flap) binding in brown leather and paper over paper pasteboards. Covers in poor condition.

Discovery Information

Subject
Islamic law—Early works to 1800
Hanafites—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton

Physical Characteristics

File Count
260

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/44b49cac-224e-49e3-b241-5ca92f182fec/manifest