[Reliance of the Traveller and Tools for the Worshipper], a work of Hanafi fiqh from the Shafi'i School of Islamic jurispudence.
Sub-Saharan Africa, circa 1820.
Inscriptions relating to Mecca and Beit al-Haram. A work of Islamic jurisprudence by hanafi scholar Shahab al-Din (1302-67 AD), whose influence on the present treatise was heavily drawn from primary texts by Imam Nawawi and Imam Abu Ishaq As-Shirazi.
The informal copying and provincial binding of this manuscript are typical of manuscript production in the sub-Saharan regions of Africa. The Western imported paper is of a mixed stock and the reeds used to inscribe the text here are thick and unrefined. The scribe endorsed an informal cursive hand and the narrow margins and small-scale script indicate that the scribe was likely copying the text for personal use; adding annotations and inscriptions in the same hand throughout the volume throughout their years of ownership.
Single volume, decorated manuscript on western imported paper, from a mixed stock including the watermark of a crescent moon in a shield and the letters 'EIV', in Arabic, complete, 124 leaves, 255 by 180 mm; single column, 16 lines informal cursive script in black with headings and important words in red, catch-words throughout, numerous contemporary and later marginal inscriptions, some light staining (as often), some gatherings becoming loose; contemporary provincial binding of strips of leather over wooden boards with flap, worn with sections of leather missing.
The informal copying and provincial binding of this manuscript are typical of manuscript production in the sub-Saharan regions of Africa. The Western imported paper is of a mixed stock and the reeds used to inscribe the text here are thick and unrefined. The scribe endorsed an informal cursive hand and the narrow margins and small-scale script indicate that the scribe was likely copying the text for personal use; adding annotations and inscriptions in the same hand throughout the volume throughout their years of ownership.
Single volume, decorated manuscript on western imported paper, from a mixed stock including the watermark of a crescent moon in a shield and the letters 'EIV', in Arabic, complete, 124 leaves, 255 by 180 mm; single column, 16 lines informal cursive script in black with headings and important words in red, catch-words throughout, numerous contemporary and later marginal inscriptions, some light staining (as often), some gatherings becoming loose; contemporary provincial binding of strips of leather over wooden boards with flap, worn with sections of leather missing.
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