Item Summary

The fourth volume of a commentary on Minhāj al-ṭālibīn, an abridgment by al-Nawawī of al-Muḥarrar fī fiqh al-Imām al-Shāfiʻī, a work on Shāfiʻite law by Abū al-Qāsim ʻAbd al-Karīm ibn Muḥammad al-Rāfiʻī al-Qazwīnī.

Descriptive Information

Title
الجز الرابع من غوامض الفكر في ترتيب مسايل المنهاج على المختصر / تأليف علي بن عثمان بن عمر بن صالح الصيرفي الدمشقي الشافعي.
Transliterated Title
al-Juzʼ al-rābiʻ min Ghawāmiḍ al-fikar fī tartīb masāyil al-Minhāj ʻalá al-mukhtaṣar / taʼlīf ʻAlī ibn ʻUthmān ibn ʻUmar ibn Ṣāliḥ al-Ṣayrafī al-Dimashqī al-Shāfiʻī.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 882H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dc5q47s112q
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1437
Extent
256 leaves : paper ; 188 x 140 (170 x 120) mm bound to 187 x 140 mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1798.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
Inscription on folio 255b. Insert between folios 150 and 151.
Collation: Paper ; fol. 255 ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 21 lines per page.
Description: Some overwriting in red ; MS in good condition, mended.
Origin: According to colophon copy completed Rajab 840 by the author (fol. 255a).
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه نستعين على القوم الطالبين کتاب قطع السرقة، كتاب السرقة باب ما يجب من القطع من كتاب الحدود وغيره ...
Colophon: وافق الفراغ منه مستهل رجب سنة اربعين وثمان مائة احسن الله عقبتها کتبه مؤلفه علي بن الصيرفي الشافعي والحمد لله وحده وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد واله وصحبه وسلم
Binding Note
Later? type III (without flap) binding in red leather. Gold-painted central design, gold-tooled frame and decorative edging on upper cover. Gold-tooled edging on lower cover. Pink paper pastedowns.

Physical Characteristics

File Count
538

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/319ae3b7-a8f1-41bb-a6ea-a3f32f4b37c9/manifest