Collection ID: 0002 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Multaqá al-abḥur.
ملتقى الابحر

Authors

• Ḥalabī, Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad, -1549 or 1550
  حلبي، ابراهيم بن محمد،

Other related names

• Khammāsh, Aḥmad, former owner
  خماش، احمد،
• Skoss, Solomon Leon, 1884-1953, former owner
• Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning, former owner

Call number

CAJS Rar Ms 285
(420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19106-3703, University of Pennsylvania, Library at the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9977642240503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1131863314
• http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0002/html/kcajs_rar_ms_285.html

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Arabic

Origin

Date

A.H. 1144 (1731)

Summary

Copy of a compendium of Ḥanafī law.

Notes

• Titles from introduction (f. 2r)
   
• 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).
   

Extent

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

Foliation

Modern foliation added in pencil, upper left recto; catchwords every verso, lower left.

Support

Paper

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.

Layout

Written in 19 long lines; border-ruled.

Decoration

Textblock border-ruled in red with gold border-rule on first page-opening (f. 1v-2r); rubrications in red.

Script

Written in naskh in black ink; pointed.

Provenance

• Given by Solomon L. Skoss to the Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning (note on library bookplate, inside front cover).
   
• 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).
   

Subjects topical

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

Genres

• Manuscripts, Arabic
• Manuscripts, 18th century
• Codices (bound manuscripts)
• Envelope flaps (features)
• Blind tooled (decoration)
• Stamps (Provenance)
• Annotations (Provenance)

Licenses

• Text

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Table of contents

• fol. 1v — Multaqá al-abḥur.

Decorations

• Inside front cover — German catalog entry, no. 47
• Inside front cover — Library bookplate
• fol. 1r — Stamp
• fol. 1r — Mostly effaced notations
• fol. 194r — Stamp
• fol. 194r — Stamp
• fol. 194r — Owner's notation
• fol. 194v — Notations
• Spine — Label: "MS 347"