Item Summary

Abridgment of Minhāj al-ṭālibīn, a treatise on Shafīʻī fiqh by Yaḥyá ibn Sharaf al-Nawawī.

Descriptive Information

Title
كتاب موسوم بمنهج الطلاب / للامام زكريا الانصاري
Transliterated Title
Kitāb mawsūm bi-Manhaj al-ṭullāb / lil-Imām Zakarīyā al-Anṣārī.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 2862Y
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/b5644v14s
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1848
Extent
ii, 176, i leaves : paper ; 217 x 170 (132 x 92) mm. bound to 217 x 170 mm.
Provenance
From the books of Dāniyāl ibn Aḥmad Khān [Dāniyāl Sulṭān] (see ownership statement, fol. 1a). Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Mach, R. Yahuda, 1443
Kemper, M., A. Shikhsaidov, N. Tagirova, The library of Imam Shamil, Princeton University Library chronicle, LXIV, no. 1 (2002), p. 128, n. 19, p. 134, n. 34 and p. 135, n. 35
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
Incipit: الحمد لله الذى هدانا لهذا وما كنا لنهتدى لو لا ان هدانا الله والصلاة والسلام ... وبعد فهذا مختصر فى الفقه على مذهب الامام الشافعى رضى الله عنه اختصرت فيه مختصر الامام ابى زكريا النووى المسمى بمنهاج الطالبين وصممت اليه ما يسر مع ابدال غير المعتمد به ... كتاب الطهارة انما يظهر من مائع ماء مطلق
Explicit: كولدها التابع لها وعتقهما من راس المال والله اعلم بالصواب واليه المزجع والماب
Physical description: 11 lines per page. Written in medium small thick taʻlīq in black ink with use of red. Some words are written on a green ground. Subject headings in blue and red on the margins. Wove paper, glossy. Marginal and interlinear annotations. Slips of paper with annotations, including prayers, placed between the original leaves.
Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the upper cover: "375". Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the pastedown of the upper cover: "911/2 ḥāʼ".
Origin: Copy completed in Dāghistān by Ibrāhīm al-ʻRī al-RChī(?) in 1265 H. (colophon, fol. 173b).
Patronage: Copied for ("bi-iltimās") al-amīr ... Dāniyāl Sulṭān (colophon, fol. 173b).
Binding Note
Dark green paper over pasteboards for upper and lower covers, and envelope flap. Brown cloth on spine and fore-edge flap. Marbled paper pastedown and free endpaper.

Physical Characteristics

File Count
221

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

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