Item Summary

Versified treatise on debated points of law. The text is preceded and followed on fol. 1a-8a and fol. 174b-177b, by several short excerpts apparently by the same hand as the main text.

Descriptive Information

Title
الخلافيات
Transliterated Title
al-Khilāfīyāt.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 851Y
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/0k225d67f
Publisher
[1380]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1380
Format
Manuscript
Extent
177 leaves : paper ; 190 x 135 (95 x 80) mm. bound to 190 x 140 mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Mach, R. Yahuda, 1670
Brockelmann, C. GAL, I, 428/II ; SI
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from end of text (fol. 173b).
Physical description: 11 lines per page in two columns. Written in medium small naskh in black ink with use of red. The text is vocalized. Thick dark cream paper, soft, with laid lines. Marginal and interlinear annotations.
Chiefly quaternions.
Inscription in Arabic script in red pencil on the pastedown of the upper cover: "Raqm 27".
Origin: According to colophon, copied by Ḥasan ibn Bashlāmish [isolated letters on fol. 173b], middle of Rajab 782 [Oct. 1380], from a copy dated Ṣafar 540 (fol. 173b and 174a). The last page is copied twice, on fol. 173b and 174a.
Incipit: بسم ... وبه نستعين بسم الاله رب كل عبد والحمد لله ولى الحمد
Explicit: وربنا اعلم بالصواب قد انتهى نظم الخلافيات
Binding Note
Bound in brown leather with flap (envelope flap wanting). Blind tooled.

Discovery Information

Subject
Islamic law—History—12th century—Sources
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton

Physical Characteristics

File Count
187

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/4aeacd0b-5de6-496e-9b08-67017e4dc07d/manifest