Item Summary

A commentary on Nūr al-īḍāḥ wa-najāt al-arwāḥ, a compendium of Muslim worship and ceremonial purity, by the same author.

Descriptive Information

Title
كتاب امداد الفتاح شرح نور الايضاح ونجاة الارواح / لمؤلفه ابو الاخلاص حسن الوفاي الشرنبلالى الحنفى
Transliterated Title
Kitāb Imdād al-fattāḥ sharḥ Nūr al-īḍāḥ wa-najāt al-arwāḥ / li-muʼallifihi Abū al-Ikhlāṣ Ḥasan al-Wafaʼī al-Shurunbulālī al-Ḥanafī
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 859H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dccc08hs963
Publisher
12 Rabīʻī al-Awwal 1162 [March 2, 1749?]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1749
Format
Manuscript
Extent
501 leaves : paper ; 224 x 167 (160 x 95) mm bound to 221 x 180 mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1764.
Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, III, pp. 7/8.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from tite page (fol. 1a).
Marginal notes and glosses. In the colophon it is stated that the work was written by the author 1162 [1749] and in the margin it is corrected to 1046 [1636]. On the colophon page there is a note about the author.
Collation: Paper ; fol. 501 ; catchwords ; quires signed: 2-50 ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 21 lines per page ; frame-ruled in red.
Description: Text in red and commentary in black ; watermarks (three crescents) ; MS in good condition.
Origin: According to colophon copy completed Thursday 12 Rabīʻī al-Awwal 1162 (fol. 501a).
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه الاعانة الحمد لله الذي خلق کل شيء بقدرته واوجده في ان ظهوره بارادته ...
Colophon: ووافق الفراغ من تبييض هذا الشرح المسمى بامداد الفتاح شرح نورالايضاح ونجاة الارواح في مثل ايام البداءة فيه في منتصف شهر ربيعي [ربيع] الاول وهو الثاني عشر يوم الخميس المبارك باشارة سيد البشر سنة الف ومائة اثنتين وستين احسن الله ختامها. بيد مؤلفه حسن بن عمار بن علي الشر نبلالي الحنفي الوفائي غفرالله له وللمسلمين وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد وعلى اله وصحبه وسلم امين
Binding Note
Contemporaneous? type II (with flap) binding in brown leather. Blind-stamped mandorla with pendants and blind-tooled edging on covers. Similar decoration on flap and spine. Endbands.

Discovery Information

Subject
Shurunbulālī, Ḥasan ibn ʻAmmār 1585 or 1586-1659—Nūr al-īḍāḥ fī al-fiqh ʻalá madhhab al-Imām Abī Ḥanīfah
Islamic law—Early works to 1800
Hanafites—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Blind tooled bindings
Headbands
Watermarks

Physical Characteristics

File Count
1016

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/14e0f778-fe19-4e06-b0ef-af8340659cde/manifest