Item Summary

A treatise on judicial decisions according to the Hanafite law.

Descriptive Information

Title
[الفواكه البدرية في الاقضية الحكمية].
Transliterated Title
[al-Fawākih al-Badrīyah fī al-aqḍiyah al-ḥukmīyah].
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 849H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcbr86bf89n
Publisher
16 Shaʻbān 986 [October 28, 1578]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1578
Format
Manuscript
Extent
20 leaves : paper ; 188 x 138 (145 x 82) mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1736.
Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), IV, pp. 467/8.
Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, III, p. 97, VII, pp. 286, 669/70, 681.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
After the colophon are several notes. Later title at head of text: Fī al-fiqh.
Collation: Paper ; fol. 20 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 25 lines per page.
Description: Rubricated ; watermarks (anchor, countermark roman-alphabet initials "PB" with trefoil and "SA[?]") ; MS in good condition, mended.
Origin: According to colophon copy completed Saturday 16 Shaʻbān 986 by ʻAbd al-Qādir al-Minṭāy al-Shāfiʻī (fol. 20a).
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وهو حسبي وتعم الوكيل قال الشيخ ... محمد بن الغرس الحنفي ... اما بعد حمد لله الذي اذا قضى لطف ولا معقب لما حكم والصلاة والسلام على رسوله ... فقد کنت ابتليت بشيء من الحکم قبل التصور وكدت كذلك ان اخذ بخط ...
Colophon: وکان الفراغ من تعليقه قبيل الظهر يوم السبت المبارك سادس عشري [عشر] شهر شعبان المکرم من شهور سنة ست وثمانين وتسعمائة على يد الفقيرالحقيرعبد القادر المنطاي الشافعي غفرالله له ولوالديه وللمسلمين امين امين امين امين امين
Binding Note
Unbound.

Discovery Information

Subject
Islamic law—Early works to 1800
Hanafites—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton

Physical Characteristics

File Count
44

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

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