Item Summary

The twelfth volume of a voluminous work on Shāfiʻite law and jurisprudence beginning with the chapter on the dowry paid for a bride, ṣadāq, and ending with that on divorce, ṭalāq.

Descriptive Information

Title
کتاب الحاوي.
Transliterated Title
Kitāb al-Ḥāwī.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 866H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dc7p88ct91k
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1233
Extent
253 leaves : paper ; 250 x 168 1950 x 120) mm bound to 247 x 185 mm.
Provenance
Ownership statments: ʻAlī ... ibn Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī ...; ʻAbd Allāh al-Baṣrawī? (fol. 1a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1778.
Ibn Khallikān, Wafayāt (1299 AH), I, p. 585.
Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), III, pp. 10/1.
Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, III, pp. 215/6.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
A few marginal notes and glosses.
Collation: Paper ; fol. 253 + i ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 21 lines per page.
Description: Paper tinted pink ; MS in good condition.
Origin: According to colophon copy completed Monday 17 Jumādá al-Awwal 630 (fol. 253b).
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم کتاب الصداق. قال الشافعي رحمه الله تعالى ذكر الله تعالى الصداق والاخر في كتابه وهو المهر ...
Colophon: وافق الفراغ منه ىوم الاثنىن وقت صلوة الظهر سابع عشر جمادى الاولى سنة ثلاثىن وستمائة والحمد لله وحده وصلواته على سىدنا محمد وآله
Binding Note
Later type II (with flap) binding in red leather and brown marbled paper. Multi-colored endbands.

Physical Characteristics

File Count
512

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/aa2de2e9-3959-4344-aee0-1c9d6a6bbac2/manifest