Item Summary

A work on jurisprudence.

Descriptive Information

Title
[كتاب في الفقه].
Transliterated Title
[Kitāb fī al-fiqh].
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 917H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcjm2151647
Publisher
Ṣafar 1134 or 1139 [1721 or 1726]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1721-1726
Format
Manuscript
Extent
40 leaves : paper ; 212 x 152 (160 x 70) mm bound to 206 x 170 mm.
Provenance
Ownership signature: Muṣṭafá Munlā ibn Quzmān Qāḍī Ṣūfī ibn Muḥammad (fol. 1a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1656.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Marginal and interlinear notes and glosses. Inserts. Inscriptions and signatures on fol. 1a. On two folios after the colophon are several notes on jurisprudence.
Collation: Paper ; fol. 40 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 13 lines per page; frame-ruled in red.
Description: Watermarks (coat-of-arms with countermark roman-alphabet initials "MA") ; MS in good condition; worm-eaten.
Origin: According to colophon copy completed Ṣafar 1134 or 1139 by Ibn Qāḍī Munlā (fol. 38b).
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم کتاب الطهارة. الماء على ثلثة اقسام طاهر وطهور وهو الباقى على الباقى ...
Colophon: قد تمت هذه النسخة الشريفة في يوم الاحد وفي وقت الضحى وفي مدرسة عثمان چلبي ومدرسة عيسي چلبي وفي زمان سعده سرى خان وفي ... الاخر کاتبه وصاحبه ابن قاضي منلا تمت
Binding Note
Later type II (with flap) binding in brown leather and paper. Purple paper pastedowns. Cover evidently re-used as the width does not match the contents.

Discovery Information

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

Physical Characteristics

File Count
94

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/c312412f-47d8-4939-8e94-f3116ee4e96f/manifest