Item Summary

Two Islamic legal texts dealing with bequests.

Descriptive Information

Title
رسالة شرح الفرائض. سيف صارم على رسالة ابو السعود في [و]قف النقود / للبركوي.
Transliterated Title
Risālat Sharḥ al-Farāʼiḍ. Sayf ṣārim ʻalá Risālat Abū al-Saʻūd fī [w]aqf al-nuqūd / lil-Birkawī.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 928H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dc7m01bz22r
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1800-1899
Extent
65 leaves : paper ; 206 x 140 (135 x 64) mm bound to 206 x 140 mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1883, 1880.
Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), III, p. 642.
Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, VII, pp. 124, 405.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Contents
1. fol. [ii]b--28a: Risālat Sharḥ al-Farāʼiḍ. A commentary on a short work of jurisprudence dealing with bequests. Contains tables.
2. fol. facing 29a-65a: Risālah maʻmūlah li-ibṭāl waqf al-nuqūd. Reply to Abū Suʻūd's treatise which approves of and advocates the endowment of money without a legal testament.
Notes
Ms. composite codex.
Title from collective title page (fol. [ia]).
Marginal notes and glosses.
Collation: Paper ; fol. ii + 65 (4 blank folios after f. 38) ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 15 lines per page ; ruled.
Description: Rubricated ; overlining in red ; watermarks (crown-star-crescents with roman-alphabet countermark "AC" with trefoil) ; MS in good condition.
Origin: Probably from the XIXth century.
Incipit: [رسالة شرح الفرائض] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله رب العالمين والصلوة والسلام على محمد آله اجمعين يبدأ من ترکة الميت بکسرالراء بمعنى... -- [رسالة معمولة لابطال ووقف النقود] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله رب العالمين والصلوة والسلام على محمد وآله اجمعين وبعد فهذه رسالة معمولة لابطال وقف النقود بدون الوصية والاضافة الى الموت المحدود ...
Colophon: [رسالة شرح الفرائض] يصح على تقدير حياته وعلى وفاته ثم ينظرالى آخرما ذکرفي الحمل تم تم تم -- [رسالة معمولة لابطال ووقف النقود] تم بحسن توفيقه تعالى وقت الضحى يوم [ا]لثالث في شهور ضفر الخير
Binding Note
Contemporary? half-bound type III (without flap) binding in brown leather and marbled paper.

Physical Characteristics

File Count
152

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/f91cc13a-3f4d-4269-8ea1-e5a474347550/manifest