Bidāʻatü’l-ḥükkām fī iḥkāmi’l-aḥkām

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Creator

Hacibzâde Mehmet bin Mustafa -1689.

محمد بن مصطفى حاجب زاده

Uniform Title

Sakk-i Hacibzâde

صك حاجب زاده

Title

Bidāʻatü’l-ḥükkām fī iḥkāmi’l-aḥkām.

بضاعة الحكام في احكام الاحكام

Created

Ottoman Empire, 1756 July 27.

Physical Description

1 item (i + 138 leaves + i) : paper ; 220 mm x 140 mm

Language

Turkish, Ottoman; Arabic

Notes

Title from text opening (f. 6a) and last page (f. 137b).

According to colophon, manuscript was copied by Derviş Feyzullāh el-Vizevī Ḳāḍīzāde (درويش فيض الله الوزوي قاضي زاده) in H. 29 Shawwāl 1169/27 July 1756 AD.

Romanization supplied by cataloger.

Layout: Single columns of 19 lines.

Script: Nasta‘līq.

Decoration: Rubrication, illuminated frames. Illustrations on ff. 22a, 33a, 57b, 85b, 102b.

Binding: Flap binding, blind-tooled gold-painted dark brown leather over paper pasteboards; floral gold center-piece on upper and lower covers.

Note on the front flyleaf recording the birth of a son named Abdullah to the manuscript’s reader/owner on 10 Rebiulahir 1210 H./24 October 1795 AD, and praying for the newborn. A couplet on the initially blank last page.

In Ottoman Turkish, with table of contents and chapter headings in Arabic.

Forms part of the Hartford Seminary Collection. For a description of the collection, search by call number: Hartford Seminary.

Provenance

Purchased from Hartford Seminary on the Beinecke Rare Book and Capital Reserve Fund, 2005.

Access and use

This material is open for research.

Summary

Illuminated manuscript, on paper, of Bidāʻat el-ḥükkām fī iḥkām el-aḥkām by Muḥammed b. Muṣṭafā b. Maḥmūd el-İstanbūlī Ḥacibzāde (d. 1100/1688-9), a treatise on Ottoman legal practice and a style guide for composing legal documents and petitions, including sample legal decisions issued by shari'a courts. Begins with a table of contents in Arabic (ff. 1b-5a).

Format

Archives or Manuscripts

Added to Catalog

May 07, 2024

References

Hacibzâde Mehmet bin Mustafa, Bidāʻatü’l-ḥükkām fī iḥkāmi’l-aḥkām. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.

Cite as

Hacibzâde Mehmet bin Mustafa, Bidāʻatü’l-ḥükkām fī iḥkāmi’l-aḥkām. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.

Subjects

Manuscripts, Turkish > Connecticut > New Haven.

Illumination of books and manuscripts, Turkish.

Islamic law > Handbooks, manuals, etc. > Early works to 1800.