Item Summary

Treatise on usurpation.

Descriptive Information

Title
كتاب الغصب.
Transliterated Title
Kitāb al-Ghaṣb.
Call Number
Oversize Islamic Manuscripts, New Series no. 692q
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/jm214r77f
Publisher
[1855]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1855
Format
Manuscript
Extent
102 leaves : paper ; 279 x 192 (172 x 92) mm bound to 286 x 196 mm
References
Mach, R. & Ormsby, E.L. Handlist of Arabic manuscripts (New Series), no. 507
Brockelmann, C. GAL, SII, 796 (24: no. 3)
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from leaf 1b.
Physical description: 23 lines per page; written in small naskh in black on machine-made paper. Rubrication and catchwords. Occasional staining.
Origin: Jumādá I 1271 H [January-February 1855] (leaf 102b).
Incipit: کتاب الغصب والکلام في موضوعه واحکامه ولواحقه
Binding Note
Full red leather with blind-stamped central mandorla and pendants and blind-tooled fillets.

Discovery Information

Subject
Forcible entry and detainer (Islamic law)
Possession (Islamic law)
Shīʻah
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton

Physical Characteristics

File Count
107

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

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