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This volume contains a work on the apportionment of inheritances according to the Hanefi school of jurisprudence. The text pauses abruptly midway through f 18v and recommences on 19r in the same hand and style. Though the volume is presented as a single work, the text throughout ff 19r-63v is Me...
Qur’ān, in Arabic, a copy from Madura. f.297v: colophon in Arabic and Javanese (read by T. Pudjiastuti): kala tahun ja.s.ra.nga wulan eni tanggal ?22 dinten soma panca wala kumala, 'in the year ?jasranga the month eni, on the ?22, on Monday, [the wuku] panca wala kumala', with the name 'Abd al-...
Վկայութիւնք Vkayut'iwnk' Catechism, textbook of disputation, by Yovhannēs Mrk'uz Jughayets'i
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An Armenian manuscript containing: Quotations from the Bible in Armenian and Arabic on facing pages, written by Yovhannēs Mrk'uz Jughayets'i (1643-1715), under four headers. f.1r Witnesses concerning the coming of Christ into the world f.25r Concerning the death of Christ, Witnesses from the ...
Qur’ān, in Arabic, a copy from Daghistan. The colophon on f. 277v, which names the scribe as Zayn al-Din and the place of writing as Sabah in Brunei, has been shown to be a later (probably modern fraudulent) addition (Gallop 2017: 120). Text frames of 2 ruled red lines. Verse (ayah) markers ar...
This volume contains a collection of interpretations and directives bearing on a wide range of legal questions. It was compiled by Musazade Mehmed ibn-i Ubeydullah (died 1196 AH/1782 CE) from documents that his father, Ubeydullah Musazade, had copied out while serving as a clerk to Pirizade Mehm...
Melca’ü’l-hükkam fi mü‘ini’l-kudat - ملجأ الحكام في معين القضاة
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This volume contains a compilation of specimen documents for use by judges (kadılar), composed by Seyyid Mehmed Masum La‘lizade (Şeyh Mehmed Ma‘sum ibn es-Seyyid Hacc ‘Abdullah ibn-i Şeyh Mehmed La‘lizade), who was a kadı himself in Istanbul. This text is rare and has not been found in publishe...
