Item Summary

A compendium of Ḥanafite law.

Descriptive Information

Title
ملتقى الابحر.
Transliterated Title
Multaqá al-abḥur.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 252L
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dc47429p349
Publisher
[18th century?]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1700-1799
Format
Manuscript
Extent
221 leaves : paper ; 204 x 145 (135 x 80) mm bound to 209 x 150 mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1904.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1739.
Hājji Khalīfah VI, pp 102/3.
Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 4613/4.
Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, III, p. 135.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from preface (fol. 5a).
Marginal and interlinear notes and glosses. Label on upper cover: "ZK 8". Inscriptions (fol. 1a). Table of contents (fol. 1b-3b). Life of the author (fol. 221a-221b) followed by lines of verse and other inscriptions (fol. 221b, lower pastedown). Inserts.
Collation: Paper ; fol. i + 221 ; catchwords ; foliation in red ink using Hindu-Arabic numerals ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 17 lines per page.
Description: Rubricated ; watermarks (coat-of-arms?, roman-alphabet countermark initials with trefoil) ; MS in good condition.
Origin: Probably from the XVIIIth century. Copied by Khalīl ibn Ibrāhīm (fol. 220b).
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله الذي وفقنا للتفقه في الدين ... وبعد فيقول المفتقر الى رحمة ربه المغنى ابراهيم بن محمد بن ابراهيم الحلبى قد سألنى بعض طاليي الاستفاده ان اجمع له كتابا يشتمل على مسآئل القدورى ...
Colophon: قد وقع الفراغ من کتابة هذا الکتاب بعون الله الملك الوهاب على يد اضعف ذوي الالباب خليل بن ابراهيم المدفون في التراب ازاد الله تعالى عمره في الشيب والشباب ووفقه بالحسن والصواب وختمه بالروح والصواب بعفوه وکرمه. تم
Binding Note
Later type III (without flap) binding in red leather. Blind-tooled central design and decorative edging.

Discovery Information

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

Physical Characteristics

File Count
462

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/46136dc0-6bd0-413f-b47b-eeb43573c027/manifest