Three Islamic legal texts.

Item Info

Title:
Three Islamic legal texts.
Alternative Title:
  • Container of (work):Hüsrev, Molla, -1480. Durar al-ḥukkām.
  • Container of (work):Shihāb al-Dīn Aḥmad ibn Maḥmūd. Farāʼiḍ Shihāb al-Dīn.
Date:
  • 990 to 1023
  • 1582 to 1614
Contributor:
Description:

  • Manuscript codex.

  • Title devised by cataloger.

  • On leaf 1a, title of text 1 given as Kitāb Dūrar in Arabic script.

  • Physical description: 27-28 lines per page, written in small naskh with elements of nastaʻlīq on glazed, laid European paper. Overlining and section headings in red; rubrication lacking in text 3. On leaf 2a, quotations and a magic square. Table of contents for text 1 on leaves 2b-5a. Quotations on inheritance law on leaf 307b. Prayer on leaf 308b. Quotation on Āyat al-Kursī, inheritance law, and other religious topics on leaves 309b-311a. Copious marginal notes. Foliation in Eastern Arabic numerals begins on leaf 14a. Leaves 5-22 appear to be replacements. Leaves 298b-299a, 308a, 309a, 311b blank. Heavy damp staining on first few leaves, but text legible. Front cover and leaves 1-30 detached.

  • Incipit (text 1): الحمد لله الذي احكم احكام الشرع القويم بمحكم كتابه

  • Incipit (text 2): الحمد لله رب العالمين . . . قال القاضي الامام شهاب الدين ابو حامد محمد بن محمود . . . اني علمت في الفرائض اصلا مختصرا ليهدي حفظه الى بيان نصيب كل وارث

  • Incipit (text 3): الحمد لله الذي بين بكتابه فرائض الدين القويم وعين بخطبه لوازم سهام صراط المستقيم

  • Full brown leather Islamic binding; blind-stamped central mandorla with pendants and blind-tooled fillets. Peach paper doublures. Spine repaired.

Location:
Turkey
Subject:
Format:
Language:
Arabic
Extent:
311 leaves ; 205 x 122 mm, bound to 206 x 130 mm
Digital Collection:
Early Manuscripts collection
Catalog Record:
https://find.library.duke.edu/catalog/DUKE008004924
Provenance:
  • Source of acquisition: Gift; S.L. Tilley; 1978.
  • Ownership history: Origin: Text 1 completed by ʻAlī ibn Aḥmad; the original date, Friday at the end of Ṣafar 990 H [March 1582], has been crossed out and replaced with 10 Shaʻbān 1023 H [15 September 1614] (leaf 298a). The copy information is followed by three signed but undated notes in Ottoman Turkish. On leaf 1a, owner's name "Mehmet Feramuz" in pencil.
Rights:
Free Re-Use
Public Domain
Identifier:
  • Call number: Arabic MS 21
  • 008004924
  • duke:448683
  • emsar01017
  • ark:/87924/r4xp6x22n
  • e9249bd8-8d6b-46ce-8888-f73261797f8c
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