Item Summary

A section of Majmūʻat al-masāʼil, entitled Fatāwá Muʼayyadʹzādah.

Descriptive Information

Title
فتاوى مؤيدزادة.
Transliterated Title
Fatāwá Muʼayyadʹzādah.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 854H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcpv63gb58p
Publisher
Shawwāl 1156 [December 1743]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1743
Format
Manuscript
Extent
(i), 213 leaves : paper ; 239 x 187 (180 x 125) mm bound to 236 x 192 mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, A.D. 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1735.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Contents
1. fol. 2a-7b: [Miscellany] Short inscriptions, questions and answers, lines of verse.
2. fol. 8a-145a: Fatāwá Muʼayyadʹzādah.
3. fol. 145b-213a: [Masāʼil]
4. fol. 213b: [Fawāʻid]
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from caption on table of contents (fol. 8a).
Marginal notes and glosses. Table of contents (fol. 8a). On the page after the last and on the following sixty-eight folios is a work on questions of jurisprudence.
Collation: Paper ; fol. ii (second of these is marked "(i)") + 213 (lacking "1") + ii ; catchwords ; foliation in ink using Hindu-Arabic numerals ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 17 lines per page.
Description: Rubricated ; some rubrications flecked with gold ; MS trimmed with some edges folded to preserve notes ; watermarks (sun) ; MS in good condition.
Origin: [Fatāwá Muʼayyadʹzādah] According to colophon copy completed middle of Shawwāl 1156 by Muḥammad ibn al-Mahdī ibn Muḥammad ibn Yūnus al-Ḥanafī al-Jazāʼirī (fol. 145a). The masāʼil beginning on folio 145b appears to be in the same hand.
Incipit: [فتاوى المؤيدزاده] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم صلى الله على سيدنا ومولانا محمد واله وصحبه وسلم. المسائل المتعلقة بالطهارة -- [مسائل] الحمد لله وبه نستعين وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد واله وسلم و عن بكر بن معرف انه قال سمعت اياح رحمه لله يقول ما ذكرت احدا بسوى ولاجازبت عليه
Colophon: [فتاوى المؤيدزاده] وكان الفراغ من كتابة هذا المجموع المباركة يوم الاربعة ف[..] الزوال في اواسط شوال سنة ست وخمسين بعد مائة والف من الهجرة النبوية على صاحبها افضل الصلاة وازكى التحية على يد كاتبه الفقير الحقير ... محمد بن المهدي بن محمد بن يونس الحنفى الجزايرى غفر الله له ولوالديه ... امين امين كمل الخط وانغض و[..] رحم الله ...
Binding Note
Later type II (with flap) binding in red leather. Blind-stamped mandorla with pendants, blind-stamped and -tooled frame on covers. Similar decoration on flap. Multi-colored endbands. Brown and red marbled paper pastedowns and flyleaves.

Discovery Information

Subject
Islamic law—Early works to 1800
Hanafites—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Headbands
Blind tooled bindings
Watermarks

Physical Characteristics

File Count
448

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/9ab2dd7a-43fe-40b3-8f05-08b6d4038299/manifest