Item Summary

Collection of fatwas according to the Shafiʻite school.

Descriptive Information

Title
الحاوي
Transliterated Title
al-Ḥāwī.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 412Y
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/3b591863g
Publisher
[1303]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1303
Extent
128 leaves : paper ; 251 x 188 (170 x 113) mm. bound to 264 x 205 mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Mach, R. Yahuda, 1419
Brockelmann, C. GAL, I, 393 (27/1)
Brockelmann, C. GAL, SI, 679 (29/1)
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from beginning of text (fol. 1b, l. 8).
13 long lines per page. Written in medium large naskh in black ink with use of red. Dark cream paper with no chain or laid lines visible. Marginal and interlinear notes in black and red ink. Foliation in pencil using Western numerals (between fol. 14 and 15: blank).
Copied on 7 Dhū al-Ḥijjah 702 by ʻAbd al-Mughnī ibn ʻAbd al-Muʼmin ibn Ibrāhīm ibn ʻAlī ibn Badr ibn Abī al-ʻAskar al-Shāfiʻī (colophon, fol. 128b [prev. 127b]).
Incipit: بسم ... الحمد لله المتوحّد بالعظمة والكبرياء المتفرّد بدوام العزة والبقاء ... اما بعد فانّ هذا الكتاب سمّيتُه الحاوي لما حوي الفوايد الزّوايد وما في اللباب واكتفيْتُ
Explicit: جنايتهما وان ادّعى كلّ شريك مُوسرا يلادها قبل عتفَتْ انْ ماتا ووُقِف الوِلآءُ تم
Binding Note
Upper and lower covers and envelope flap made of brown leather over paper pasteboard. Upper and lower covers are similarly blind-tooled with a central mandorla and an outer frame of two double fillets, with four flower stamps in the inner corners. The envelope flap has the same frame and a roundel on its point.

Physical Characteristics

File Count
260

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/6b31c11d-af13-4865-87e7-932450c3f546/manifest