Qayd al-jāmiʻ / 1808قيد الجامع / 1808Mahfanī, al-Ḥusayn ibn Aḥmadمهفني، الحسين بن أحمدaraShort manual of the law of marriagePreceded by 1 page of notesCopied in A.H. 1223 (A.D. 1808).Also known as: Arkān al-nikāḥ (Brockelmann, S II, p. 628, taken from Ahlwardt, 4681, where it is made up).The author is a Javanese, and is presumably of the Shafiʻi persuasion (cf. Brockelmann, II, 422).Incipit: "Bismillāh al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm ... al-Ḥamdu lillāh al-Malik al-Dayyān ... Qāla ... Ḥusayn ibn Aḥmad al-Mahfanī ... Ammā baʻd, fa-qad saʼalanī baʻḍ aḥibbāʼī ... an uṣannifa lahum kitāban mukhtaṣaran nāfiʻan fī arkān al-nikāḥ ..."Fair naskhī, in red and black.With: 1 other title.Colophon: "Tammat al-kitāb, taʼrīkh yawm al-Khamīs, al-khāmis min shahr Jumād al-Awwal, min sanat thalāth wa-ʻishrīn wa-miʼatayn baʻd al-alf."Translation of the colophon: "The book is completed on Thursday, 5 Jumād al-Awwal of the year 1223 [of the Hijrah = 29 June 1808]."