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Title

Sharḥ Mukhtaṣar al-Shaykh Khalīl.
شرح مختصر الشيخ خليل

Authors

• Damīrī, Bahrām ibn ʻAbd Allāh, 1333 or 1334-1402 or 1403
  دميري، بهرام بن عبد الله،
• Khalīl ibn Isḥāq al-Jundī, -1365?
  خليل بن اسحاق الجندي،

Other related names

• Daljamūnī, Nūr al-Dīn ibn Aḥmad ibn Shihāb al-Dīn al-Ḥūfī, scribe
  دلجموني، نور الدين بن احمد بن شهاب الدين الحوفي.
• Jastrow, Marcus, 1829-1903, former owner
• Jastrow, Morris, Jr., 1861-1921, former owner

Call number

Ms. Codex 27 v.4
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: ocn122528586
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/
• https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9914691853503681

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Arabic

Origin

Date

between 1570 and 1573

Place

Egypt?

Summary

Commentary on the Mukhtaṣar of Shaykh Khalīl. This copy is very neatly written in 4 volumes in the same hand; fairly extensive worm damage though mostly confined to the margins; approximately 30 leaves missing from the beginning of volume 3, according to the earlier foliation.

Notes

• Title from title page (f. 1r).
   

Extent

4 volumes (250, 293, 242, 248 leaves) : 270 x 175 (190 x 120) mm bound to 270 x 180 mm

Foliation

Perhaps contemporary to the marginalia, all volumes foliated in light brown ink, upper right verso, faded and often worm damaged now. Modern foliation added in pencil, upper left recto; catchwords every verso, lower left. References in the record are to the modern foliation.

Support

Paper

Binding

Brown leather over pasteboard with flap (Type II). The leather binding of each volume is severely deteriored and has pulled away from the spine. The front and back covers are loose or, in some cases, completely detached. Covers are blind tooled with a frame and scalloped outline around a central mandorla of red, embossed paper onlay. Flap has coordinating tooling and onlay. Bottom edge shortened title on each volume: al-Awwal [al-Thānī] min Bahrām.

Layout

33 long lines; some marginalia.

Script

Written in small, neat naskh in black ink; marginalia in maghribi in brown ink.

Provenance

• Formerly owned by Dr. Marcus Jastrow and Dr. Morris Jastrow, Jr.
   
• Accessioned, 1934.
   

Subjects topical

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

Genres

• Manuscripts, Arabic--16th century
• Codices (bound manuscripts)
• Commentaries
• Criticism, interpretation, etc

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Sharḥ Mukhtaṣar al-Shaykh Khalīl, v.4