Item Summary

A commentary on al-Nawawī's Minhāj al-ṭālibīn, out of order, with gaps in the text, and bound with fragments of other manuscripts.

Descriptive Information

Title
شرح منهاج الطالبين وعمدة المحققين / للشيخ جلال الدين المحلى الشافعى.
Transliterated Title
Sharḥ Minhāj al-ṭālibīn wa-ʻumdat al-muḥaqqiqīn / lil-Shaykh Jalāl al-Dīn al-Maḥallī al-Shāfiʻī.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 381L
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcpv63gc60p
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1614
Extent
156 leaves : paper ; 195-203 x 125-155 (148 x 91) mm bound to 220 x 158 mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1904, from the books of Amīn ibn Ḥasan al-Ḥulwānī al-Madanī al-Ḥanafī (Medina).
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
Marginal notes. Label on upper cover: "1032 KE". Leaves which do not appear to belong to this manuscript: 19?, 27-28, 69? 91-93, 98-100, 122, 124-125, 128-130, 131-132?, 136, 138-139, 141-142?.
Collation: Paper ; fol. 156 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 21-25 lines per page.
Description: Text in red and commentary in black ; watermarks (anchor, roman-alphabet countermark initials "AC"; three crescents) ; MS in fair condition.
Origin: According to colophon copy completed Monday 14 Ṣafar 1023 (fol. 156b).
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم كتاب البيع هو كقوله ؟ هذا بكذا فيقول اشتريته به فيحقق بالعاقد ...
Binding Note
Later type III (without flap) binding in brown leather. Blind-stamped mandora and blind-tooled edging. Multi-colored endbands.

Physical Characteristics

File Count
320

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/fcb30e53-9d64-4264-835d-c4d08c928c50/manifest