Kitab majmua al-fatawi, A collection of fatwas, Ottoman Turkey, dated 23 Sha’ban AH 875 / 23 February 1471 AD, Arabic manuscript on paper, 221ff., 3fl., with 25ll. of naskh script per folio, headings in red, numerous annotations ; with paginated index on initial blank leaf, copied in the 19th century, undated and unsigned ; contemporary leather backed-boards, lacking flap, early repairs to spine ; with marginal endowment inscriptions and seal impression for the madrasa of a mosque, in the name of Mehmed Efendi al-Shahsir Beg Kuz-zadeh (?) and waqf seal of Great Mosque dated AH 1328 /1910 CE, 27.5 x 18.5cm.

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