Lot 471
471
MANUSCRIPTS -- ARABIC MANUSCRIPT on Marriage Law (Kitâb al-Nikâh, Hanafî school). Ottoman provinces, c. 1840-1860 CE (1256-1277 AH). 35 lvs. (of which 11 blank), 17-21 lines per page. Ms. written in black naskh with headings in red, with schematic genealogical diagrams in red ink. European watermarked paper. Dimensions: 32x20 cm; written area 26x13 cm. Mod. h. leather. (Some tiny wormholes).
This manuscript preserves the section on marriage law (kitâb al-nikâh) from a Hanafî fiqh compendium, comprising detailed discussions of the conditions of the contract, witnesses and guardianship, dower, impediments to marriage by blood, affinity and milk-kinship, as well as classifications of valid and void marriages. Of particular note are the schematic charts of prohibited degrees of kinship, and a didactic poem versifying the essential rules.€ 600
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