Descriptive Information

Title

شرعة الاسلام.

Transliterated Title

[Shirʻat al-Islām].

Call Number

Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 5160Y

Identifier

http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/5q47rr35c

Publisher

[1663]

Language

Arabic

Date Created

1663

Format

Manuscript

Extent

158, i leaves : paper ; 197 x 144 (137 x 78) mm bound to 206 x 152 mm

Provenance

Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.

Source Acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

Mach, R. Yahuda, 1986

Brockelmann, C. GAL, I, 375 (19/1)

Rights Statement

No Known Copyright

Notes

Ms. codex.

Title supplied by cataloger.

15 lines per page. Written in medium small naskh in black ink with use of red. Red ink frame on fol. 2b-40b. European glazed paper with watermark. Inscription on fol. 1a. Modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals. Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the upper cover: "Thālith 13". Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the pastedown of the upper cover: "649/2 ḥāʼ".

Copied by Aḥmad ibn ʻAbd Allāh, servant of the inner court in the traveling establishment of the Sultan (gulmân-i enderûn fī hane-yi seferlı) in Jumādá al-Ākhar 1074 (colophon in Arabic and Ottoman Turkish, fol.158a).

Explicit: ومن السنّة ان لا يذكر ميّتاً من المسلمين الّا بخير ... وقال عليه السّلام لا تسبّوا الاموات فتوضوا به الاحياء وتمّت الكتاب بعون اللّه وحسن توفيقه [158أ] وصلّى اللّه على سيّدنا محمّد وعلى آله وصحبه اجمعين.

Incipit: الحمد لله الذي دلّنا على معرفته بالشواهد والاعلام ... اما بعد هذه عقود منظومة من سنن سيّد المرسلين.

Binding Note

Modern binding with four sewing stations and gilt stamps on the spine. Blue paper on upper and lower covers. Marbled text block edges (web pattern in purple ink).

Discovery Information

Subject

Islamic law—12th century

Hanafites—12th century

Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton

Physical Characteristics

File Count

164

Institutional Information

Collection

Manuscripts of the Islamic World

IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/3f44033d-49da-4ae1-8a2f-c25722c8039b/manifest

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