Item Summary

A commentary on al-Farāʼiḍ al-Sirājīyah, a compendium of the Muslim law of inheritance by Sirāj al-Dīn al-Sajāwandī.

Descriptive Information

Title
هذا شرح الفرائض / للسيد الشريف.
Transliterated Title
Hādhā Sharḥ al-Farāʼiḍ / lil-Sayyid al-Sharīf.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 1307Y
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/5t34sn21m
Publisher
5 Dhū al-Qaʻdah 946 [March 23, 1540]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1540
Format
Manuscript
Extent
146 leaves : paper ; 162 x 99 (110 x 52) mm bound to 162 x 102 mm.
Provenance
Seal Impression of ʻAbd al-Ḥalīm (fol. 1a). Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Mach, R. Catalogue of Arabic Manuscripts (Yahuda Section), 1610.
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
Marginal notes. Kabīkaj (invocation against bookworms), Seal of Solomon, and extracts (fol. 1a). Inheritance tables (fol. 38a). Bookdealer's insert and labels including: "ELS No. 1307".
Collation: Paper ; fol. ii (later paper) + 146 (fol. 146 is later paper) + ii (later paper) ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 13 lines per page.
Description: Text commented upon overlined in red ; yellow and pink tinted paper ; watermarks (star; other unidentified marks) ; MS in fair to good condition, stained along edges.
Origin: According to the colophon copied 5 Dhū al-Qaʻdah 946 (fol. 145b).
Incip.: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم تمم بالخير والسلامه يا كريم الحمد لله رب العالمين وصلى ... فانها نصف العلم هکذا رواية الفقهاء فالفرائض جمع الفريضة ...
Colophon: وقع الفراغ من تحرير شرح الفرائض للشريف علي بدى محمد بن اخبتيار بن حسين النحيف ... يوم السبت خامس شهر ذى القعدة المبارك سنه ست واربعين وتسعمائه بهجرة نبوية والحمد لرب العالمين على الاتمام وعلى سيد المرسلين افضل السلام وعلى اله واصحابة العظام وعلى تابعيهم الى يوم القيام
Binding Note
Later full type III (with flap) binding in green leather. Gold-stamped central design and inner and outer frames on covers. Gold-stamping on spine, flap, and flap edge. Marbled paper pastedowns and lower flyleaf.

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

Physical Characteristics

File Count
151

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/cc832852-7c31-46e4-b492-e16905463f4f/manifest