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Fetāvā-yı Yaḥyā Efendi
Creator
محمد بن عبد الحليم
Title
Fetāvā-yı Yaḥyā Efendi.
فتاواى يحيى افندي
Created
Ottoman Empire, after 1644 and before 1799.
Physical Description
1 item (321 leaves) : paper ; 270 mm x 160 mm
Language
Turkish, Ottoman
Notes
Title from rubricated heading (f. 10a).
Romanization supplied by cataloger.
Layout: Single columns of 31 lines. Catchwords on each verso.
Script: Nasta‘līq.
Decoration: Rubrication.
Binding: Light brown leather over paper pasteboards, inlaid gold-stamped centerpiece with pendants and cornerpieces, blind-tooled, gold-painted frames. Black leather doublures with gold-painted centerpieces, pendants, and frames.
Contemporary foliation begins on the verso before the text opening, with modern f. 10a numbered 1, f. 11a numbered 2, and so on.
In Ottoman Turkish, with some Arabic notes.
Provenance
Ownership inscriptions of ‘Abdülbāḳī the judge of Baghdad (عبد الباقي) and es-Seyyid Zeynülābidīn (السيد زين العابدين), and a lengthy vakıf (endowment) statement of el-Ḥācc es-Seyyid Aḥmed Ḥilmī (الحاج السيد احمد حملي ) from Niğde, with several other names, dated H. 17 Safer 1292/25 March 1875 (f. 10a). Gift of the Library Associates.
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Biographical / Historical Note
Muḥammed bin ʻAbdülḥalīm is also known as Şeyhü’l-İslām Esīrī Mehmed Efendi.
Summary
Manuscript, on paper, of Fetāvā-yı Yaḥyā Efendi compiled by Muḥammed bin ʻAbdülḥalīm and containing a collection of fetvās (legal opinions) by the Ottoman şeyhülislam (chief jurist) Zekeriyāzāde Yaḥyā Efendi. Some marginal quotations from various legal sources in Arabic and Ottoman Turkish. Includes table of contents (ff. 2b-3b, 8b-9b); text begins on (f. 10b). The appendix includes contemporary Ottoman land laws (ff. 300a-301b), promulgated in H. 1018/1609-1610 AD; and the fetvās of Ebussuud Efendi presented to the Sultan Selim II (ff. 301b-304b).
Format
Archives or Manuscripts
Added to Catalog
January 11, 2024
References
Muhammed bin Abdülhalim, Fetāvā-yı Yaḥyā Efendi. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Cite as
Muhammed bin Abdülhalim, Fetāvā-yı Yaḥyā Efendi. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Subjects
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Annotations - 17th century.
Manuscripts, Turkish - Turkey - 17th century.
Manuscripts, Turkish - Turkey - 18th century.
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