Collection ID: 0023 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Multaqá al-abḥur.
ملتقى الأبحر

Authors

• Ḥalabī, Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad, -1549 or 1550
  حلبي، ابراهيم بن محمد،
• Free Library of Philadelphia. Rare Book Department. John Frederick Lewis collection of Oriental Manuscripts

Other related names

• Pîrîzâde, Sayyid ʻAbd Allāh, Shaykh al-Islām, former owner
  پيرى‌زاده، سيد عبد الله،
• Khouri, Elias Alexander, associated name
• Lewis, Anne Baker, 1868-1937, donor
• Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932, former owner

Call number

Lewis O 30
(Philadelphia, Free Library of Philadelphia, Rare Book Department)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 2441499
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1083644123
• https://know.freelibrary.org/Record/2441499

Publisher

Free Library of Philadelphia

Language

Arabic

Origin

Date

1691

Summary

Clear copy of Ḥanafī law text in good condition with table of contents.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from introduction (f. 4r).
   
• "E. A. Khouri 5037 Greene St. Germantown, Penna." (note in pencil, front flyleaf). Probably Elias Alexander Khouri.
   

Extent

268 leaves : 195 x 115 (94 x 40) mm bound to 195 x 125 mm

Foliation

Contemporary foliation in Hindu-Arabic numerals in red and black, upper left recto; catchwords lower left verso. Modern foliation in pencil added, top left recto. References in the record are to the modern foliation.

Support

Paper

Binding

Bound in brown leather over pasteboard with flap (Type II). Embossed and gilt central mandorla inlay with gold tooled surrounding finials. Gold tooled frame. Flap has corresponding inlay and gold tooling. Title written onto bottom edge in black ink.

Layout

15 long lines; border-ruled. Frame-ruled with misṭarah. Three pages ruled in 12 x 6 grid in red and black for table of contents (f. 1v-2v).

Decoration

Rubrications in red. Textblock border-ruled in gold. Opening page is ruled as if for headpiece decoration (f. 3v)

Script

Written in clear nastaʻlīq, pointed, unvocalized.

Provenance

• Gift of Anne Baker Lewis in 1933.
   
• Formerly owned by Sayyid ʻAbd Allāh, Shaykh al-Islām, known as Pîrîzâde (note on f. 1r).
   
• Sold at the auction of the Grand Vizier Ḥusayn Pāshā's property (note in pencil, f. [268]v).
   
• Formerly owned by John Frederick Lewis.
   

Subjects topical

• Islamic law--Early works to 1800
• Hanafites--Early works to 1800
• Manuscripts, Arabic--17th century

Genres

• Codices (bound manuscripts)
• Manuscripts (documents)

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 3v — Multaqá al-abḥur.

Decorations

• fol. 1r — Owner's name: "Sayyid ʻAbd Allāh, Shaykh al-Islām, Pîrîzâde"
• fol. 1v — Fihrist
• fol. 2r — Fihrist
• fol. 2v — Fihrist
• fol. 3r — Notations