Item Summary

A treatise on religious and moral obligations.

Descriptive Information

Title
هذا كتاب شرعة الاسلام
Transliterated Title
Hādhā Kitāb Shirʻat al-Islām
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 836H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcgt54m034j
Publisher
Marʻash, 3 Jumādá al-Ūlá 1090 [June 12, 1679?]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1679
Format
Manuscript
Extent
123 leaves : paper ; 210 x 150 (161 x 80) mm bound to 210 x 160 mm.
Provenance
Ownership signature: Aḥmad al-shahīr bi-Ṣūfī (fol. 3a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1693.
Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), IV, p. 42.
Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 1730-33.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from headpiece (fol. 3b).
Marginal and interlinear notes and glosses. On two folios before the first page is a table of contents. A few inscriptions on folio 3a.
Collation: Paper ; fol. 123 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 13 lines per page ; frame-ruled in red.
Description: Rubricated ; watermarks (crown-star-crescent, countermark roman-alphabet initials) ; MS in good condition.
Decoration: Illuminated headpiece in red and black.
Origin: According to colophon copy completed Saturday 3 Jumādá al-Ūlá 1090 in Marʻash by Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad (fol. 123a).
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه نستعين الحمد لله الذي دلنا على معرفته ... اما بعد فهذه عقود منظومة من سنن سيد المرسلين وامام المتقين ...
Colophon: قد وقع الفراغ من هذه النسخة الشريفة التي هي شرعة الاسلام في يوم الثلث[اء] في وقت العصر في شهر جمادى الاولى في بلدة مرعش في محلة ... في تاريخ سنة 1090 في يد العبد الضعيف المذنب المحتاج الى رحمة ربه الغني احمد بن محمد غفر الله له ولوالدي واحسن اليه واليهما اللهم اغفر لي ولوالدي ولجميع المؤمنين والمؤمنات والمسلمين والمسلمات الاحياء منهم والاموات برحمتك يا ارحم الراحمين تم تم تم
Binding Note
Contemporaneous? type II (with flap) binding in brown leather. Blind-stamped mandorla and blind-tooled edging on covers. Similar decoration on flap.

Discovery Information

Subject
Islam—Customs and practices—Early works to 1800
Islamic ethics—Early works to 1800
Hanafites—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
illuminated manuscripts
headpieces (layout features)
Autographs
Blind tooled bindings
Watermarks

Physical Characteristics

File Count
264

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/46f2017b-ca85-4849-8bae-ad12707c7b9e/manifest