Item Summary

A commentary on al-Shāfiyah.

Descriptive Information

Title
المناهج الوافية في شرح الشافية / ابو يحيى زكريا الانصاري.
Transliterated Title
al-Manāhij al-wāfiyah fī sharḥ al-Shāfiyah / Abū Yaḥyá Zakarīyā al-Anṣārī.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 342H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcd217r082k
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1653
Extent
156 leaves : paper ; 209 x 152 (152 x 94) mm. bound to 209 x 156 mm.
Provenance
Ownership signatures: ʻAbd al-Laṭīf ibn Muḥammad al-Ḥanbalī, imām of Jāmiʻ al-Sharīf al-Dīn al-Umawī; Muṣṭafá ibn Khalīl al-Ṣabbān purchased from Muḥammad Afandī al-Khamīṣī; Ibrāhīm [?] (fol. 1a)
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 394.
Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), IV, p. 5.
Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, IV, p. 18.
Catalogue des manuscrits arabes de la Bibliothèque Nationale, 4062.
Rosen, Les manuscrits arabes de l'Institut des langues orientales, 130.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from text (fol. 1b).
Marginal notes and glosses. Several inscriptions on upper pastedown and fol. 1a, mostly regarding the work or previous owners.
Collation: Paper ; fol. 156 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 23 lines per page ; ruled.
Description: Written in Fārisī and other scripts ; text in red and commentary in black ; overlining and other use of red ; folios 1-50 are by a different hand ; watermarks (three "c"s ; bird in a circle standing on three mounds; anchor) ; MS in fair condition.
Origin: According to colophon copied on a Tuesday late Shawwāl 1063 (fol. 156a).
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم. قال سيدنا ومولانا وقدوتنا الى الله تعالى شيخ مشايخ الاسلام
Colophon: وکان الفراغ من کتابته يوم الثلات [الثلاثاء] المبارك اواخر شوال المبارك سنة 1063 وحسبنا الله ونعم الوکيل. تم
Binding Note
Later? type II (with flap) binding in brown leather. Currently unsewn. Blind-stamped mandorla and blind-tooled edging.

Physical Characteristics

File Count
323

Institutional Information

Collection
Princeton’s Holdings of the al-Madani Library
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/275cc037-0730-4ffb-9a6a-ad68970f946f/manifest