Item Summary

Collection of five treatises, mainly on religious topics.

Descriptive Information

Title
al-Jawāhir al-bahīyah fī sharḥ al-Arbaʻīn al-Nawawīyah. al-Ibtihāj bi-l-kalām ʻalá al-isrāʼ wa-al-miʻrāj ... [etc.].
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 2996Y
Identifier
ark:/88435/dchm50v297c
Publisher
[1713-1714]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1713-1714
Extent
ii, 181, ii leaves : paper ; 215 x 165 (165 x 130) mm. bound to 215 x 170 mm.
Provenance
Waqf in the name of al-Ḥājj Aḥmad Pāshā al-Jazzār for the Madrasat al-Nūr Aḥmadīyah [attached to the Jazzār Mosque, Acre], dated 4 Ṣafar 1197 [Jan. 9, 1783], with waqf-seal (fol. 1a). Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Mach, R. Yahuda, 719, 1971, 2129, 4566
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Contents
1. fol. 1a-63b : al-Jawāhir al-bahīyah fī sharḥ al-Arbaʻīn al-Nawawīyah / taʼlīf al-shaykh al-imām ... Muḥyī al-Dīn ... al-Nawawī ... wa-al-sharḥ lil-shaykh Muḥammad Walī al-Dīn al-Miṣrī.
Mach, R. Yahuda, no. 719.
2. fol. 64b : [Magical formula].
3. fol. 65a-125b : Kitāb Sharḥ al-miʻrāj / lil-Shaykh al-imām ... Najm al-Dīn al-Ghayṭī.
Mach, R. Yahuda, no. 4566 (with title reading: al-Ibtihāj bi-l-kalām ʻalá al-isrāʼ wa-al-miʻrāj).
4. fol. 126a-179a : Kitāb al-Sabʻīyāt / ... al-shaykh Muḥammad Abū Naṣr Ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān al-Hamadānī.
Mach, R. Yahuda, no. 2129 (with title reading: al-Sabʻīyāt fī mawāʻiẓ al-barīyāt ; title in colophon: al-Sabʻīyāt fī ʻilm al-waʻẓīyāt).
5. fol. 179b-181b : Munājāt Mūsá [incomplete at end].
Mach, R. Yahuda, no. 1971
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Physical description: 21 lines per page. Written in medium large naskh in black ink with use of red. European paper. At the beginning and the end of the copy are two leaves of thick paper (blank). Several inscriptions, including Kabīkaj, on fol. 1a. The lower outer corner of fol. 2-9 is wanting, with loss of text.
Title on a label pasted on the upper cover (inverted) : "Sharḥ al-Arbaʻīn al-Nawawī".
Origin: Copied by Ḥusayn ibn ʻAbd al-Ḥaqq al-Ṣafadī. Text 1 completed on 17 Muḥarram 1026 (for 1126) [Feb. 2, 1714] (colophon, fol. 63b) ; text 3 completed on 4 Dhū al-Qaʻdah 1125 [Oct. 24, 1713] (colophon, fol. 125b) ; text 4 completed on 17 khalat Dhū al-Qaʻdah 1125 [Dec. 5, 1713] (colophon, fol. 179a).
Binding Note
Paper over paper pasteboards for upper and lower covers. Brown leather spine and edges. Paper pastedowns.

Physical Characteristics

File Count
376

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
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