Item Summary

A commentary on Fatḥ al-wahhāb bi-sharḥ Manhaj al-ṭullāb. This in turn is a commentary by Abū Yaḥyá Zakarīyā al-Anṣārī on his own compendium of Shāfiʻite law and jurisprudence entitled Manhaj al-ṭullāb and which is also an abridgment of Manhāj al-ṭālibīn.

Descriptive Information

Title
فتح الابهج في شرح شرح المنهج / فتح الله الامدي.
Transliterated Title
Fatḥ al-abhaj fī sharḥ Sharḥ al-Minhaj / Fatḥ Allāh al-Āmidī.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 896H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dc3484zv36d
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1800-1899
Extent
65 leaves : paper, illustrations ; 218 x 162 (145 x 100) mm bound to 218 x 162 mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1799.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
Marginal notes and glosses. Diagrams on fol. 26b. The MS is incomplete at the end and probably it is the original copy of the author.
Collation: Paper ; fol. ii + 65 + i ; catchwords ; foliation in ink using Hindu-Arabic numerals ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 22-26 lines per page.
Description: Rubricated ; text in red, original commentary overlined in red ; watermarks (three crescents; later endpaper: eagle? with roman-alphabet letters "GFA") ; MS in good condition.
Origin: Probably from the XlXth century.
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم ربنا اتنا من لدنك رحمته ... الحمد لله الذي ايد نبيه محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم ... وبعد فيقول العبد الضعيف العاجز الحقير ... فتح الله بن عمر بن محمد امين الامدى مولدا ...
Ending: ورأس الاذن هو الجزء القريب من الوتد وليس المراد به اعلى الاذن من جهة الرأس لانه ليس محاذيا لمبدأ العذار
Binding Note
Later half-bound type III (without flap) binding in red leather and grey and red marbled paper. Yellow-green paper pastedowns and flyleaves.

Physical Characteristics

File Count
146

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/7429d8bf-c596-4a57-914b-dbc2b707ff66/manifest