Item Summary

A short treatise on the laws of inheritance consisting of a series of masāʼil.

Descriptive Information

Title
هذه رسالة في علم الميراث.
Transliterated Title
Hādhihi Risālah fī ʻilm al-mīrāth.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 280L
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcjd4738798
Publisher
[18th century?]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1700-1799
Format
Manuscript
Extent
13 leaves : paper ; 232 x 167 (167 x 110) mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1904.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1886.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
Collation: Paper ; fol. 13 + i ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 18 lines per page.
Description: Watermarks (three crescents) ; MS in good condition.
Origin: Probably from the XVIIIth century.
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله رب العالمين ... وبعد فهذه مسائل في علم الميراث ...
Colophon: تمت بحمد الله وعونه وحسن توفيقه والحمد لله رب العالمين امين. م
Binding Note
Unbound.

Discovery Information

Subject
Inheritance and succession (Islamic law)—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Watermarks

Physical Characteristics

File Count
32

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/f7bec546-9ee4-458f-b23e-8e4e30a86876/manifest