Item Summary

Autograph copy of a treatise on the laws of inheritance.

Descriptive Information

Title
احكام القول في حل مسايل العول / للشيخ عبد المعطي السملاوي.
Transliterated Title
Iḥkām al-qawl fī ḥall masāyil al-ʻawl / lil-Shaykh ʻAbd al-Muʻṭī al-Simillāwī.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 274L
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dc70795m977
Publisher
[not after 1715]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1650-1715
Format
Manuscript
Extent
5 leaves : paper ; 220 x 160 (152 x 100) mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1904.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1881.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
Title page has a table of contents, "qayyada bi-ism kātibihi Muḥammad Suyūfī" and other inscriptions (fol. 1a). Inscriptions (5b).
Collation: Paper ; fol. 5 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 23 lines per page.
Description: Rubricated ; MS in good condition.
Origin: According to colophon copy completed by the author, ʻAbd al-Muʻṭī al-Simillāwī (fol. 5a).
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله الذي فضل الرجال على النساء ببعض الفرقان واوحب بينهم ... وبعد فيقول العبد الفقير الي الله تعالي بعج المعطي بن سالم ابن عمر السملاوي هذه رسالة في مسايل القول وقسمة ...
Colophon: وکان الفراغ من جمعها في بعض ساعة من يوم السبت على يدي مؤلفها الفقير عبد المعطي السملاوي غفرالله له ولوالديه والمسلمين اجمعين وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد واله وصحبه اجمعين امين
Binding Note
Unbound.

Discovery Information

Subject
Inheritance and succession (Islamic law)—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
holographs (autographs)

Physical Characteristics

File Count
14

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/67f8ca4c-8754-4d45-acc0-3bc902d443a0/manifest