Item Summary

A compendium of the laws of religious endowments, being an abridgment of Kitāb Aḥkām al-awqāf of Abū Bakr ibn ʻUmar al-Khaṣṣāf.

Descriptive Information

Title
هذا كتاب الاسعاف في احكام الاوقاف / جمع برهان الدين الطرابلسي الحنفي.
Transliterated Title
Hādhā Kitāb al-Isʻāf fī aḥkām al-awqāf / jamʻ Burhān al-Dīn al-Ṭarābulusī al-Ḥanafī.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 929H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dchx11xs780
Publisher
6 Dhū al-Ḥijjah 1070 [August 13, 1660?]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1660
Format
Manuscript
Extent
90 leaves : paper ; 210 x 153 (140 x 107) mm bound to 202 x 155 mm.
Provenance
Signatures: ʻAbd al-Malik ibn Abī ʻAbd Allāh ʻAbd al-Shakwá, Sulaymān ibn Aḥmad ibn Ḥasan Jubbūr al-Ḥanafī dated 1089, Muḥammad Amīn ibn Ḥasan dated 1120, [obscured name] dated 1146?, [obscured name] dated 1157, ʻAbd al-Malik ibn ʻAbd Allāh ʻAbd al-Shakūr dated 1228 (fol. 1a); ʻAbd Allāh al-Malikī (fol. 90b). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1878.
Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), I, p. 284.
Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, III, p. 5, VII, p. 10.
Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 4766.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
Marginal notes and glosses. Preliminary leaf has end of a table of contents and an inscription. Following the text is Ṣūrat waqf al-Amīr Muḥammad ibn Abī ʻAlī (fol. 89[bis]b).
Collation: Paper ; fol. i + 90 ; catchwords ; foliation in ink using Hindu-Arabic numerals ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 21 lines per page.
Description: Rubricated ; watermarks (three crescents?; later endpapers: crown-star-crescent) ; MS in good condition.
Origin: According to colophon copy completed Monday 6 Dhū al-Ḥijjah 1070 (fol. 88b).
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه نستعين الحمد لله الذي خلق الانسان في احسن تقويم وهدى من شأ منه الى الصراط المستقيم ... وبعد فان العلما الاولين قد جعلهم الله رحمه للاخرين ...
Coolphon: ووافق الفراغ من نسخها يوم الاثنين السادس من شهرذي الحجة ختام سنة سبعين والف من الهجرة النبوية على مشرفها افضل [الصلاة] والسلام والحمد لله على التمام
Binding Note
Later type II (with flap) binding in brown leather and paper with block-pressed design. Upper cover missing. Lower cover worn.

Discovery Information

Subject
Charitable uses, trusts, and foundations (Islamic law)—Early works to 1800
Waqf—Early works to 1800
Hanafites—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Autographs
Watermarks

Physical Characteristics

File Count
191

Institutional Information

Collection
Princeton’s Holdings of the al-Madani Library
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/b1e3644f-441b-4ed2-9082-df625e99435c/manifest