Arabic manuscript on paper, 224 leaves, 17 lines to the page written in elegant divani script in black ink, headings and significant words picked out or underlined in red, extensive commentaries written horizontally and diagonally in wide outer margins towards beginning of text, inner margins ruled in gold, catchwords, one illuminated headpiece in colours and gold, preceded by a two-page index with each chapter heading written within a panel ruled in gold, a few wormholes mostly restricted to outer margins otherwise in good condition, contemporary brown morocco gilt, covers with stamped central medallions decorated with exquisite intertwining floral and vegetal motifs in gold, some staining and slightly worn, missing flap, rebacked, doublures of reddish-brown morocco
230 x 133 mm.

Footnotes

There is an inscription and seal impression of Muhammad Hashim, dated AH 1231/AD 1815-16.

There are three copies dated AD 1117/AD 1705, AH 1052/AD 1643 and AH 1055/AD 1645 in the John Rylands Library, Manchester: see A. Mingana, Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts, Manchester 1934, pp. 280-83, nos. 176 [604], 177 [715] and 178 [654] respectively. See also Brockelmann, GAL, G II, 432; S II, 642.

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Burhan-ad-Din Muhammad bin Ibrahim al-Halabi (d. 1549), Multaqa al-Abhur, The Confluence of the Seas, a celebrated text on Hanafi jurisprudence, copied by Hasan ibn al-Haj 'Umar al-Istanbuli Ottoman Turkey, Constantinople, dated AH 1061[?]/AD 1650-51

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