Item Summary

The third volume of a work on judicial decisions and legal ordinances according to the principles of Shāfiʻite law and jurisprudence. Abridgment of the longer commentary by ʻAbd al-Karīm al-Rāfiʻi on Ghazzālī's Wajīz fī fiqh madhhab al-Imām al-Shāfiʻī. This volume covers Kitāb al-Shirkah to Kitāb al-Waṣāyā.

Descriptive Information

Title
الجزء الثالث من كتاب الروضة الطالبين وعمدة المفتيين / تأليف ابى زكريا يحيى بن شرف بن مرى بن حسين النووى.
Transliterated Title
al-Juzʼ al-thālith min Kitāb al-Rawḍah al-ṭālibīn wa-ʻumdat al-muftīyīn / taʼlīf Abī Zakarīyā Yaḥyá ibn Sharaf ibn Marrī ibn Ḥusayn al-Nawawī.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 876H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dc1z40m522g
Publisher
[14th century?]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1300-1399
Format
Manuscript
Extent
257 leaves : paper ; 268 x 183 (200 x 125) mm.
Provenance
Ownership signatures: Aḥ̣mad in Muḥammad al-Shahīd (fol. 1a); Muḥamad ibn Aḥmad; Muṣṭafá .. dated '74 (fol. 257a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1804.
Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), III, p. 506.
Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, III, p. 229.
Bibliothecae Bodleianae codicum MSS orientalium, I, 216.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
Table of contents on preliminary folio. Kabīkab (invocation against bookworms) on folio 257a. Leaves possibly missing before folio 226?
Collation: Paper ; fol. i + 257 ; quires signed: 3-25, first 4+ quires unsigned ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 21 lines per page.
Description: Rubricated ; vowel signs ; MS in fair condition; worm-eaten and defective.
Decoration: The title page is elaborately illuminated with a frame and a roundel of gold, black and blue. The title and author's name appear in the frame written in black surrounded by gold. The background is filled with line drawings in red.
Origin: Probably from XIVth century.
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وما توفقى الا بالله عليه توكلت واليه انب کتاب الشرکة. کل ثابت بين الشخصين الرکن الثاني الموکل يشترط فيه صحة مباشرته ...
Ending: بملك او ولاية ليخرج
Binding Note
Not currently bound.

Discovery Information

Subject
Ghazzālī 1058-1111—Wajīz
Islamic law—Interpretation and construction—Early works to 1800
Shafiites—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
illuminated manuscripts
Autographs

Physical Characteristics

File Count
520

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/f22d3aa4-c50e-4773-951a-d0ad2fa41702/manifest