Qayd al-jāmiʻ / 1808 and قيد الجامع / 1808

Description

Title

Qayd al-jāmiʻ / 1808
قيد الجامع / 1808

Alternative Title

Arkān al-nikāḥ
أركان النكاح

Creator

Mahfanī, al-Ḥusayn ibn Aḥmad
مهفني، الحسين بن أحمد

Abstract

Short manual of the law of marriage

Preceded by 1 page of notes

Copied in A.H. 1223 (A.D. 1808).

Description

Also known as: Arkān al-nikāḥ (Brockelmann, S II, p. 628, taken from Ahlwardt, 4681, where it is made up).
The author is a Javanese, and is presumably of the Shafiʻi persuasion (cf. Brockelmann, II, 422).
Incipit: "Bismillāh al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm ... al-Ḥamdu lillāh al-Malik al-Dayyān ... Qāla ... Ḥusayn ibn Aḥmad al-Mahfanī ... Ammā baʻd, fa-qad saʼalanī baʻḍ aḥibbāʼī ... an uṣannifa lahum kitāban mukhtaṣaran nāfiʻan fī arkān al-nikāḥ ..."
Fair naskhī, in red and black.
With: 1 other title.
Colophon: "Tammat al-kitāb, taʼrīkh yawm al-Khamīs, al-khāmis min shahr Jumād al-Awwal, min sanat thalāth wa-ʻishrīn wa-miʼatayn baʻd al-alf."
Translation of the colophon: "The book is completed on Thursday, 5 Jumād al-Awwal of the year 1223 [of the Hijrah = 29 June 1808]."

Provenance

Purchased from the Wellcome-Kraus collection in 1949.

Extent

leaves 1-17 ; 21.5 x 16 cm.

Extent of Digitization

This object has been completely digitized.

Language

Arabic

Collection Information

Repository: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Call Number: Arabic MSS 156

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Genre: Manuscripts, Arabic 19th century
Arabic manuscripts
Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Name): Mahfanī, al-Ḥusayn ibn Aḥmad.
Subject (Topic): Marriage (Islamic law)
Shafiites
Subjects: Mahfanī, al-Ḥusayn ibn Aḥmad
Marriage (Islamic law)
Shafiites
19th century
Arabic manuscripts

Access And Usage Rights

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Citation: Ḥusayn ibn Aḥmad al-Mahfanī, Arkān al-nikāḥ. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.

Identifiers

Orbis Record: 3752824
Object ID (OID): 33213482