Descriptive Information

Title

مجمع البحرين

Transliterated Title

Majmaʻ al-baḥrayn.

Call Number

Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 4510Y

Identifier

http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/d791sj80d

Publisher

[1479 or 1480]

Language

Arabic

Date Created

1479

Format

Manuscript

Extent

i, 139, i leaves: paper ; 180 x 130 (122 x 90) mm. bound to 180 x 135 mm.

Provenance

Ownership statement in the name of Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Ḥalīm al-BR-- (fol. 2a) ; of Shaykh Muṣṭafá FQRī al-Qādirī al-Ṣamādī ibn Ḥasan ibn ʻAlī (fol. 2a). Seal on fol. 139a. Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.

Source Acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

Mach, R. Yahuda, 1055

Brockelmann, C. GAL, I, 383 (49/1)

Rights Statement

No Known Copyright

Notes

Ms. codex.

Title from beginning of text (fol. 2b, l. 12).

Incipit: الحمد لله جاعل العلماء انجما للاهتداء زاهرة واعلاما للاقتداء طاهرة ... اما بعد فهذا كتاب يصغر للحافظ حجمه

Explicit: منعنا الشركة او للمسجد من غير ذكر انفقاق يبطلها واجازها تمت والله اعلم

Physical description: 13 lines per page. Written in thick medium small naskh in black ink with use of red for re-inking and key-words ; red circle text-stops. Thick cream paper with pulp visible. Marginal annotations, apparently by the same hand as the main text (scarce after fol. 57b). Several inscriptions, including ownership statements on fol. 1a-2a. Waqf (see inscription on the upper margin of fol. 2b).

Inscription in Arabic numerals in red pencil on a label pasted on the upper cover: "161". Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the pastedown of the upper cover: "Ḥāʼ 597/2".

Origin: Copy completed on 884 H. (colophon, fol. 137b).

Binding Note

Modern library binding, in black cloth on cardboard. Glazed blue paper pastedown and free endpaper.

Discovery Information

Subject

Islamic law—History—13th century—Sources

Hanafites—History—13th century—Sources

Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton

Autographs

Physical Characteristics

File Count

147

Institutional Information

Collection

Manuscripts of the Islamic World

IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/0af4c129-af62-41f4-8dc0-68dcab315e9c/manifest

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