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Multaqá al-abḥur; ملتقى الابحر

Name:
Ḥalabī, Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad, -1549 or 1550
Timespan:
Early works to 1800
Date:
1731
Description:
Copy of a compendium of Ḥanafī law.
Language:
Arabic
Provenance:
Formerly owned by Aḥmad al-Khammāsh (note in ink and stamp f. 194r; same stamp f. 2r).; Formerly owned by the Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning (library bookplate inside front cover).; Khammāsh, Aḥmad, former owner.; Skoss, Solomon Leon, 1884-1953, former owner.; Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning, former owner.
Publisher:
[publisher not identified]
Relation:
Digital facsimile for download (OPenn): http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0002/html/kcajs_rar_ms285.html
Subject:
Islamic law -- Early works to 1800; Islamic law; Hanafites -- Early works to 1800; Hanafites
Resource Type:
Text
Form/Genre:
manuscripts (documents); Manuscripts, Arabic; Manuscripts, 18th century; codices (bound manuscripts); Stamps (Provenance); Annotations (Provenance)
Physical Description:
194 leaves : paper; 160 x 110 (130 x 66) mm bound to 206 x 160 mm
Rights:
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
Notes:
Titles from introduction (f. 2r); Foliation: Modern foliation added in pencil, upper left recto; catchwords every verso, lower left.; Layout: Written in 19 long lines; border-ruled.; Script: Written in naskh in black ink; pointed.; Decoration: Textblock border-ruled in red with gold border-rule on first page-opening (f. 1v-2r); rubrications in red.; Binding: Bound in brown leather over pasteboard with flap (Type II); blind stamped, centrally placed, lobed mandorla with two pendants on the vertical axis and matching pendant on the flap; yellow paper doublure and black leather flap hinge.; Origin: The copy was completed in Rabīʻ al-Awwal 1144 (September 1731) by ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Ramaḍān al-Ḥanafī (f. 193v).; Two stamps one round, one square with trimmed corners (f. 1r, 2r, 194r); two notes, one effaced (f. 1r), one legible owner's note (f. 194r).; Catalog entry in German pasted in (inside front cover).; Arabic.
Physical Location:
Library at the Katz Center, Rare Book Manuscripts, CAJS Rar Ms 285