Princeton University, Islamic Manuscripts Garrett no. 1257Y

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DS ID:

DS15661

Shelfmark:

Islamic Manuscripts Garrett no. 1257Y

Title:

Kitāb Mukhtār al-fatāwá ʻalá madhhab al-Imām al-aʻẓam

Author:

Ḥanafī, ʻAbd Allāh ibn Maḥmūd / حنفي، عبد الله بن محمود

Abdullah Ibn Mahmud al-Mawsili WIKIDATA

Date:

1651

seventeenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

ara

Arabic WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: i, 217, i leaves: paper ; 207 x 147 (144 x 89) mm. bound to 208 x 158 mm.

Note:

Ms. codex.
Title from inscription in gold in headpiece (ʻunwān) on fol. 1b.
Physical description: 9 lines per page. Written in medium large naskh (professional hand) in black ink with use of red (gold circles text-stops on fol. 1b). The text is framed within two red lines (gold outlined in black on fol. 1b-2a). Simply executed headpiece consisting of frames in gold outlined in black on fol. 1b. European paper.
Collation: Paper, fol. i, 217, i ; i (fly-leaf) 110 (-1 at beginning of quire) 2-2110 228 i (fly-leaf) ; catchword on the verso of each leaf.
Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the upper cover: "Ḥ 157". Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the pastedown of the upper cover: "Ḥ 812".
Origin: According to colophon, copy (taʻlīq) completed on 3 [Dhū] al-Ḥijjah 1061 [Nov. 17, 1651] by Ḥasan ibn ʻAlī (fol. 216a).
Impression of an octogonal stamp on the lower outer corner of fol. 2a. Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.

Keyword:

Islamic bookbinding

Manuscripts, Arabic

Fatwas

Hanafites

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/9953623483506421

IIIF Manifest:

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/7233e3b6-22a8-4379-b032-19855514db17/manifest

Holding Institution:

Princeton University