Item Summary

Treatise on fiqh according to the Shāfiʻī school, based on the Minhāj al-ṭālibīn by Yaḥyá ibn Sharaf al-Nawawī (d. 676/1278). R. Mach mentions another copy: Chester Beatty, no. 3087. The text is followed on fol. 195a-196b by several short appendices (fāʼidah and qāʻidah), and short excerpts from Sharḥ al-Minhāj by Ibn al-Mulaqqin (d. 804/1401)and from Sharḥ al-Minhāj by al-Ḥiṣnī (Abū Bakr ibn Muḥammad Taqī al-Dīn, d. 829/1425?).

Descriptive Information

Title
كتاب دلائل المنهاج من كتاب رب العالمين وسنة سيد المرسلين / تأليف الشيخ الامام العلامة مفيد الطالبين عمدة المفتيين ابي المعالي زين الدين عبد الملك بن علي بن ابي المنا البابي ثم الحلبي ثم الشافعي تغمده الله تعالى برحمته واسكنه فسيح جنته بكرمه ومنته انه احرم الراحمين آمين آمين
Transliterated Title
Kitāb Dalāʼil al-minhāj min Kitāb Rabb al-ʻālamīn wa-sunnat Sayyid al-mursalīn / taʼlīf al-Shaykh al-imām al-ʻallāmah mufīd al-ṭālibīn ʻumdat al-muftīyīn Abī al-Maʻālī Zayn al-Dīn ʻAbd al-Malik ibn ʻAlī ibn Abī al-Munā al-Bābī thumma al-Ḥalabī thumma al-Shāfiʻī taghammadahu Allāhu taʻālá bi-raḥmatihi wa-askanahu fasīḥ jannatihi bi-karamihi wa-mannatihi innahu aḥram al-rāḥimīn āmīn āmīn.
Call Number
Oversize Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 1765Yq
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/b8515q990
Publisher
[1453]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1453
Format
Manuscript
Extent
198 leaves : paper ; 275 x 180 (190 x 140) mm. bound to 275 x 190 mm.
Provenance
Several ownership statements on fol. 1a, including one in the name of Taqī al-Dīn al-Ḥusaynī al-Ḥisnī. Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Mach, R. Yahuda, 1434
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
Physical description: 25 lines per page. Written in medium small naskh in black ink with use of red for headings and entries. The last letters of some words at the end of a line are written on the margin. The text is partially vocalized. Light cream paper, glossy, with laid lines and chain lines (in groups of three) visible. Fol. 197 is a later added fly-leaf (European paper). Ḥāshiyah on the margin and on a few small pieces of paper pasted between the leaves. Modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals (one fol. blank after fol. 55). Stained with water.
Chiefly quinions. Catchword on the verso of each leaf ; the quires are numbered using Arabic ordinals (see "thālithah" on fol. 20a).
Origin: According to colophon, copy (taʻlīq) completed on Sunday ʻĀshūrāʼ [10 Muḥarram], corresponding to 21 Kānūn al-Thānī, 857 [Jan. 21, 1453]. The end of the colophon (or a later note?) is scratched out (fol. 195a).
Incipit: بسم ... وما توفيقي الا بالله عليه توكلت الحمد لله الذي شرح صدورنا للاسلام وانزل علينا كتابا هدانا به الى سبل السلام وارسل الينا محمدا ... اما بعد فهذا كتاب ذكرت فيه دلايل المنهاج للشيخ العلامة محيي الدين النووى قدس الله روحه ونور ضريحه وجمع بيني وبينه فى دار كرامته من الكتاب والسنة ورتبته على ابوابه ومسايله لكني خالفته في بعض التراجم
Explicit: اللهم صل على محمد وعلى آل محمد كما صليت على ابراهيم وعلى آل ابراهيم انك حميد مجيد اللهم بارك على محمد وعلى آل كما باركت على ابراهيم وعلى آل ابراهيم انك حميد مجيد
Binding Note
Panel defined by a large border consisting of fillets and a running pattern, with corner pieces. Central roundel on a ground left plain. The roundel is filled with a geometrical pattern developing from a star, filled with impressions of a small poincon and of a small semi-circular stamp (gold lost). Embossed leather doublure. Envelope flap wanting. Rebacked, in poor condition.

Discovery Information

Subject
Islamic law—History—15th century—Sources
Shafiites—Early works to 1800
Hadith—Texts—History—15th century—Sources
Nawawī 1233-1277—Minhāj al-ṭālibīn
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton

Physical Characteristics

File Count
207

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/62075a94-0735-44f7-8a92-530e912262af/manifest