Item Summary

A short essay correcting the tables contained in the chapter which is entitled al-Ṣinf al-awwal min dhawī al-arḥām in al-Farāʼiḍ al-Sirājīyah, a work on the law of inheritance by Sirāj al-Dīn al-Sajāwandī. The present work is a supplement to the corrections made by al-Sayyid al-Sharīf al-Jurjānī who emended one part of the tables. The remaining three parts are the subject of this MS.

Descriptive Information

Title
كشف اللثهام عن وجوه مخدرات الصنف الاول من ذوي الارحام / لكاتبه حسن الجبرتي الحنفي.
Transliterated Title
Kashf al-lithām ʻan wujūh mukhdarāt al-Ṣinf al-awwal min dhawī al-arḥām / li-kātibihi Ḥasan al-Jabartī al-Ḥanafī.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 961H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dc3f462h95j
Publisher
[18th century?]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1700-1774
Format
Manuscript
Extent
6 leaves : paper, illustrations ; 194 x 137 (155 x 90) mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1882.
Jabartī, ʻAjāʼib al- Āthār (1297 AH), I, p. 398.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. [i]a).
A few marginal notes. MS illustrated with tables and diagrams. Incomplete at the end. Purportedly MS is an autograph copy.
Collation: Paper ; fol. i + 6 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 23 lines per page.
Description: Rubricated ; watermarks (unidentified design in circle) ; MS in good condition.
Origin: probably from XVIIIth century
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم نحمدك بامن صورنا فى الارحام ... وبعد فيقول الفقير الى لطف ربه ... الجبرتى ... ان جدول البطون المتعددة الذي في الصنف الاول من ذوى الارحام ...
Ending: التي هي بنت بنت بنت البنت عشرة وبذلك کمل للابن مائة واثنان وثلاثون ولا خته من ابيه ستة وخمسون
Binding Note
Unbound.

Discovery Information

Subject
Sajāwandī, Sirāj al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad active 12th century—Farāʼiḍ al-Sirājīyah
Inheritance and succession (Islamic law)—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
diagrams
tables (documents)
holographs (autographs)

Physical Characteristics

File Count
18

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/ec75dce3-0471-4f78-b679-7b81daf14491/manifest