Multaqá al-abḥur.
ملتقى الابحر.

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Ḥalabī, Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad, -1549 or 1550.

Contributor:

Khammāsh, Aḥmad, former owner.

Skoss, Solomon Leon, 1884-1953, former owner.

Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning, former owner.

خماش، احمد،, former owner.

Language:

Arabic

Subjects (All):

Islamic law--Early works to 1800.

Islamic law.

Hanafites--Early works to 1800.

Hanafites.

Genre:

Manuscripts, Arabic.

Manuscripts, 18th century.

codices (bound manuscripts)

Stamps (Provenance)

Annotations (Provenance)

Penn 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).

Physical Description:

194 leaves : paper ; 160 x 110 (130 x 66) mm bound to 206 x 160 mm

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], A.H. 1144 (1731)

Language Note:

Arabic.

Summary:

Copy of a compendium of Ḥanafī law.

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).

Cited as:

CAJS Rar Ms 285.

OCLC:

1131863314