Mukhtār lil-fatwá; مختار للفتوى

Contributor:

Ḥusaynī, Ibrāhīm ibn ʻAlī, active 1554 (scribe); Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning (former owner)

Name:

Mawṣilī, ʻAbd Allāh ibn Maḥmūd, 1202 or 1203-1284

Timespan:

Early works to 1800

Date:

1554

Description:

Short introduction to the madhhab of Abū Ḥanīfah.

Language:

Arabic

Provenance:

Formerly owned by Bākīr ibn Muṣṭafá Fūṭī (note in ink, f. 1r).; Formerly owned by the Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning (library bookplate adhered to paperboard wrapper).; Bākīr ibn Muṣṭafá Fūṭī, former owner.; Sulzberger, Mayer, 1843-1923, former owner.

Relation:

Digital facsimile for download (OPenn): https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0002/html/kcajs_rar_ms145.html

Subject:

Islamic law -- Early works to 1800; Islamic law; Hanafites -- Early works to 1800; Hanafites

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

Manuscripts, Arabic; Manuscripts, 16th century; codices (bound manuscripts); treatises; manuscripts (documents)

Physical Description:

i, 234, i leaves : paper; 206 x 140 (120 x 70) bound to 205 x 145 mm

Rights:

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

Notes:

Title from introduction (f. 2r).; Foliation: Modern foliation added in pencil, upper left recto; catchwords every verso, lower left.; Layout: Written in 9 long lines; border-ruled.; Script: Written in naskh in black ink; pointed.; Decoration: Rubrications in red; textblock border-ruled in double red with a page-opening frame-rule in red.; Binding: Bound in brown leather over pasteboard with blind-stamped central mandorla and two corner-pieces on the vertical axis; black leather spine and edges; brown leather pastedown on back inside cover only.; Origin: Copy completed in Muḥarram 962 A.H. (December 1554 CE) by Ibrāhīm ibn ʻAlī al-Ḥusaynī (f. 234r).; Arabic.

Physical Location:

Library at the Katz Center, Rare Book Manuscripts, CAJS Rar Ms 145