Item Summary

A book on the ordinances relating to ablution and prayer according to the Ḥanafite school.

Descriptive Information

Title
منية المسلى وغنية المبتدى.
Transliterated Title
Munyat al-muṣallī wa-ghunyat al-mubtadī.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 1105H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dczp38wr337
Publisher
[17th century?]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1600-1699
Format
Manuscript
Extent
34 leaves : paper ; 209 x 130 (153 x 63) mm bound to 209 x 134 mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1750.
Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), VI, p. 227.
Catalogus codicum arabicorum Bibliothecae Academiae Lugduno-Batavae, 1812.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from preface (fol. 1b).
Marginal notes and glosses. A folio is missing between folios 20 and 21. Prayer calendar on lower pastedown (labeled "35").
Collation: Paper ; fol. 34 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 23 lines per page ; ruled.
Description: Rubricated ; watermarks (crown-star-crescent, countermarks roman-alphabet initials "[?]B" with trefoil) ; MS in fair condition.
Origin: Probably from the XVIIth century.
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله رب العالمين ... ان انواع العلوم کثيرة واهم الانواع بالتحصيل مسائل الصلوة ...
Colophon: تم الکتاب بعون الملك الوهاب
Binding Note
Later half-bound type III (without flap) binding in red leather and pink paper with gilt-pressed design.

Discovery Information

Subject
Islamic law—Early works to 1800
Prayer—Islam—Early works to 1800
Purity, Ritual—Islam—Early works to 1800
Hanafites—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Watermarks

Physical Characteristics

File Count
76

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/0f0b2d94-2dc1-40f3-8fd6-87c826ae9775/manifest