Item Summary

A commentary on a work on Mālikite law and jurisprudence. A note by a later hand on the sixth folio designates the work as Fī uṣūl Mālik.

Descriptive Information

Title
[شرح على کتاب في الفقه].
Transliterated Title
[Sharḥ ʻalá kitāb fī al-fiqh].
Call Number
Oversize Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 901Hq
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcgb19fh86p
Publisher
[12th century?]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1100-1199
Format
Manuscript
Extent
149 leaves : paper ; 280 x 210 (217 x 160) mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1841.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger. Illegible writing on top and bottom edge of text block.
A few marginal notes and glosses. Incomplete at the beginning and end.
Collation: Paper ; fol. 149 ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 29 lines per page.
Description: Entries highlighted with red ; MS in poor condition; defective and foxed. First few folios fragmentary.
Origin: Probably from the Xllth century.
Incipit: من بيع وشراء ونفقة بالمعروف ...
Ending: فهو مقدم على من سواها وهذا القول ... اذا
Binding Note
Unbound.

Discovery Information

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

Physical Characteristics

File Count
298

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/10a5d681-bbf1-4493-9777-788a516b44ec/manifest