Item Summary

Autograph copy of a legal work on whether or not a gift by a man to his freedwoman could be contested by his legal heir, should the man die shortly after he had made the gift.

Descriptive Information

Title
الجواهرالمنتشرة في هبة السيد لام الولد والمدبرة.
Transliterated Title
al-Jawāhir al-muntashirah fī hibat al-sayyid li-umm al-walad wa-al-mudabbarah.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 268L
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dck3569h54v
Publisher
[16th century]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1500-1599
Format
Manuscript
Extent
7 leaves : paper ; 208 x 150 (155 x 87) mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1904.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1836.
Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, VII, p. 248.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
Collation: Paper ; fol. 7 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 23 lines per page.
Description: Rubricated ; watermarks (crown-star-crescent) ; MS in good condition.
Origin: From the latter part of the XVIth century.
Colophon: انتهى وبالله التوفيق. وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد الهادي [الى] سواء الطريق ومؤلفه وکتبه [وکاتبه] افقرالعباد الى الله سبحانه محمد بدرالدين القرافي المالکي لطف الله به امين امين امين
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله الذي جعل العلماء ورثة الانبياء ... وبعد فقد نزلت مسيلة لدين مولانا ... محمد بن ... محمد بن الياس القاضي بمصر ...
Binding Note
Unbound.

Discovery Information

Subject
Gifts (Islamic law)—Early works to 1800
Malikites—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
holographs (autographs)
Watermarks

Physical Characteristics

File Count
16

Institutional Information

Collection
Princeton’s Holdings of the al-Madani Library
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/63fa6e2e-c738-46f7-b50a-6da39a0d11d1/manifest