Arabic MS 78 (The John Rylands Research Institute and Library, The University of Manchester)
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A voluminous work on legal decisions
Title: Legal DecisionsIncipit: لو غصب رجل من آخر عبدا بعينه ثم صالحه عن قيمته بدراهم ... قال الامام جاز. وقال لو كان العبد مستهلكا فصاله بالف ثم اقام الغاصب بينه ان قيمته كانت خمسماية لم تقبل والصلح جايزExplicit: باب اقرار وارثين او ثلثة بواحد. في قول الامام وصاحبيه لو اقر وارثان او ثلثة بوارث واحد قال الامام يصحح الفريضة ... اعطاه نصف ما في يده فلو صدقت احدىLanguage(s): ArabicReferences
Catalogue no. Arabic MS 199 [78]Physical Description
Form: codexSupport: PaperExtent: 151 foliosDimensions (leaf): 252 × 175 mm.Layout
1 column, 25 lines
History
Origin: circa 1400 CEProvenance and Acquisition
Formerly part of the collection of the Persian scholar Nathaniel Bland (1803-1865). Bland’s oriental manuscripts were sold through Bernard Quaritch in 1866 to Alexander Lindsay, 25th Earl of Crawford.
Purchased by Enriqueta Rylands in 1901 from James Ludovic Lindsay, 26th Earl of Crawford, for the John Rylands Library.
Record Sources
Catalogue information compiled by Abdullah al-Rashidi from Alphonse Mingana, Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the John Rylands Library, Manchester University Press, 1934.Availability
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