Item Summary

A treatise on jurisprudence dealing with the judicial opinion that should be given in cases where the evidence is conflicting.

Descriptive Information

Title
هذه رسالة في تعارض البينات / تأليف غانم بن محمد البغدادي.
Transliterated Title
Hādhihi Risālah fī taʻāruḍ al-bayyināt / taʼlīf Ghānim ibn Muḥammad al-Baghdādī.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 255L
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcf7623r90d
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1660
Extent
39 leaves : paper ; 210 x 139 (150 x 100) mm.
Provenance
Obscured ownership signature dated 1123 (fol. 1a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1904.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1762.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
Marginal notes and glosses.
Collation: Paper ; fol. 39 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals ; folio 39b is labeled "40".
Layout: 19 lines per page.
Description: Rubricated ; watermarks (three crescents; crown-star-crescent; roman-alphabet countermark initials with trefoil) ; MS in good condition. Probably unique.
Origin: According to colophon copy completed [1] Dhū al-Qaʻdah 1070 (fol. 39b).
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم سبحان من لا حجة اقوى من کلامه ... وبعد فيقول العبد الفقير الى الله الغنى غانم بن محمد البغدادى هذه رسالة فى تعارض البينات جمعتها لبعض اخوانى من القضاة ...
Colophon: تم الکلام في هذا المقام في غرة شهر ذي القعدة الحرام من شهور سنة سبعين والف من هجرة سيدنا محمد عليه الصلاة والسلام
Binding Note
Unbound.

Physical Characteristics

File Count
79

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/79d65592-ab39-4cd5-a32b-f9f235b322e4/manifest