Princeton University, Islamic Manuscripts Garrett no. 2585Y

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DS ID:

DS15623

Shelfmark:

Islamic Manuscripts Garrett no. 2585Y

Title:

Kitāb Majmaʻ al-baḥrayn

Author:

Ibn al-Sāʻātī, Aḥmad ibn ʻAlī, 1254-1294 or 1295 / ابن الساعاتي، احمد بن علي

Aḥmad ibn ʻAlī Ibn al-Sāʻātī WIKIDATA

Date:

1462

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

ara

Arabic WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: i, 213, i leaves: paper ; 270 x 170 (142 x 100) mm. bound to 270 x 190 mm.

Note:

Ms. codex.
Title from beginning of text (fol. 3a, l. 6-7).
Incipit: الحمد لله جاعل العلماء انجمًا للاهتداء زاهرةً واعلامًا للاقتداء طاهرةً ... [3أ] ... اما بعد فهذا كتاب يصغر للحافظ حجمه
Explicit: منعنا الشركة او للمسجد من غير ذكر اتفاق يبطلها واجازها تمت
Physical description: 9 lines per page. Written in medium large naskh with elements of taʻlīq in black ink with use of red. Cream paper with pulp visible. Ḥāshiyah and short excerpts, mainly fatwas, on the margins and between the lines, apparently by the same hand as the main text. Table of contents on fol. 2a. Several short excerpts on fol. 1a-2a. Lower margin of some leaves worm-eaten.
Inscription in Arabic numerals in red pencil on a label pasted on the upper cover: "346". Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the pastedown of the upper cover: "Ḥāʼ 1382".
Origin: Copy completed by Qāsim ibn SLī in Dhū al-Qaʻdah 866? [July-Aug. 1462] (colophon, fol. 212b).
Seal dated 1303 H. on the pastedown of the envelope flap. Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.

Keyword:

History

Sources

Manuscripts, Arabic

Hanafites

New Jersey--Princeton

Islamic law

Thirteenth century

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/9952212293506421

IIIF Manifest:

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/fa08a1fe-413c-409a-aa0f-a029b2ad758f/manifest

Holding Institution:

Princeton University