Item Summary

Commentary on al-Manār fī uṣūl al-fiqh by Ḥāfiẓ al-Dīn ʻAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad al-Nasafī (d. 710/1310).

Descriptive Information

Title
شرح المنار في علم الأصول / لابن ملك.
Transliterated Title
Sharḥ al-Manār fī ʻilm al-uṣūl / li-Ibn Malak.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 812H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcn8710310h
Publisher
8 Rabīʻ al-Awwal 1057 [April 13, 1647]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1647
Format
Manuscript
Extent
197 leaves : paper ; 207 x 145 (160 x 75) mm bound to 206 x 145 mm.
Provenance
Ownership signatures: obscured signature; al-Sayyid Muḥammad al-Qāḍī bi-madīnat[?] Abī Ayyūb al-Anṣārī with his seal impression; ʻAlī al-Kamānī[?], muftī with his seal impression (fol. 1a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, A.D. 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1634.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
Marginal and interlinear notes and glosses. Before the title page are five folios one of which contains a table of contents. Inscription on title page. Folio missing after fol. 20. Title on lower edge of text block.
Collation: Paper ; fol. vi + 197 ; catchwords ; foliation in ink using Hindu-Arabic numerals ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 21 lines per page ; some folios frame-ruled in red.
Description: Overlining in red ; watermarks (later endleaves: coat-of-arms and roman-alphbet letters "BT"; text folios 1-182: crown-star-crescent and countermark initials "AG" with trefoil; text folios 183-197: three hats?) ; MS in good condition.
Origin: According to colophon copied Saturday 8 Rabīʻ al-Awwal 1057 by Faḍl Allāh ibn Muḥammad al-Sharwī (fol. 197b).
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم لله الحى الاحد حمد لا يحتويه الحد على ما اولانا علم الفروع ... وبعد يقول عبد اللطيف بن فرشته اوصلهما الله الى جنته برشده ان ارباب البطانة واصحاب الفطانة من خلص احبابى ...
Colophon: الحمد لله الذي وفقنا وفق نا الى اتمام وتحرير هذه النسخة الشريفة المسمى بمنار ابن ملك في يوم السبت الثامن من شهر ربيع الاول من شهور سنة سيع وخمسين والف من الهجرة النبوية عليه افضل التحية على يد العبد الفقير المعترف ... فضل الله بن الحاج محمد الشردوي ... واحسن اليهما واليه يوم يقوم الناس لرب الغفور امين يا رب العالمين يامعين
Binding Note
Later type II (with flap) binding in red leather. Blind-stamped mandorla and blind-tooled edging. Endbands. Flap missing. Orange paper upper pastedown and green flyleaves.

Discovery Information

Subject
Nasafī, ʻAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad -1310—Manār al-anwār fī al-uṣūl
Islamic law—Interpretation and construction—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton

Physical Characteristics

File Count
414

Institutional Information

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

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/f284be17-c6be-4b4f-afd5-4c846e9d2a70/manifest