Item Summary

Part three of the Takmilat Sharḥ al-Minhāj, a continuation of Kāfī al-muḥtāj ilá Sharḥ al-Minhāj, a commentary by ʻAbd al-Raḥīm ibn al-Ḥasan al-Isnawī (d. 772/1370) on Minhāj al-ṭālibīn, a treatise on Shāfiʻī law by Yaḥyá ibn Sharaf al-Nawawī (d. 676/1278). These works and commentaries are known under several titles. See GAL. This copy comprises the text from Kitāb al-Siyar to the end.

Descriptive Information

Title
الجزء الثاله من تكملة شرح المنهاج / للشيخ الامام العلامة [] الدين الزركشي رحمه الله تعالى.
Transliterated Title
al-Juzʼ al-thālith min Takmilat Sharḥ al-Minhāj / lil-Shaykh al-imām al-ʻallāmah [---] al-Dīn al-Zarkashī raḥimahu Allāh taʻālá.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 2612Y
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/sb397b87m
Publisher
[ 1459]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1459
Format
Manuscript
Extent
297 leaves : paper ; 264 x 182 (191 x 125) mm. bound to 265 x 190 mm.
Provenance
Three ownership statements on fol. 1a, one obliterated, one in the name of Muḥammad ibn al-Kāshif, one written on an erased inscription, in the name of al-Ḥājj ʻAbd al-Karīm, dated 1214 H. [1799 or 1800]. Two ownership statements on fol. 293a, in the name of Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad (or Najīb?) al-Kātib, dated R[ajab, or Rabīʻ al-Thānī] 864 [1460], and of Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn al-Makārī (Hakārī?) al-Shāfiʻī (partly erased). Erased waqf inscription on some leaves (see fol. 20a, upper margin). Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Mach, R. Yahuda, 1430
Brockelmann, C. GAL, I, 395 (29/I. Cmtre 7) ; SI, 680 ; II, 91 ; SII, 108
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a). Erased continuous text between the lines of the title.
Physical description: 27 lines per page. Written in medium small naskh in black ink with use of red for headings and entries. Cream paper, glossy, with pulp and chain lines visible (grouped by three). From fol. 269 on, hole in the upper central part of the leaves, with important loss of text (repaired with European paper).
Collation: Paper, fol. 297 ; 1-29¹⁰ 30⁸ (-1 at the end of the quire) ; catchword on the verso of each leaf ; the quires are numbered using Arabic numerals, mentioning the quire number and the part number (see fol. 31a ; cut off on most quires due to trimming of the pages). Note the 51 for 15, 91 for 19, etc.
Inscription in Arabic script in red pencil on the pastedown of upper cover: "77 Irbīl(?)".
Origin: Copy completed by [---] ibn ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad al-shahīr bi-Ibn [---], on 4 Ṣafar 864 [Nov. 11, 1459] (colophon, fol. 293a, partly wanting due to the hole mentioned in the physical description).
Incipit: كتاب السير لما كانت السيرة هى الطريقة وليست هي مضمون الباب انما مضمونه الكلام في الجهاد واحكامه
Explicit: واقول [---] فيق كتابنا نرجوا ان --ق الله من البار وقابنا [---] المللين جوابنا والى حناته ابانبا اللهم [---] الراحيم
Binding Note
Dark brown leather over paper pasteboards for upper and lower covers. Lower cover badly damaged. Spine and edges mended in red leather. Upper cover might be original, it presents a fine decoration with a central panel filled with a tooled geometrical motif, developing from a central star, with impressions of a small circular stamp. Only a portion of the large outer frame consisting of fillets and a running pattern of a x-shape stamp is visible.

Discovery Information

Subject
Islamic law—14th century
Shafiites—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Isnawī, ʻAbd al-Raḥīm ibn al-Ḥasan 1305-1370—Sharḥ al-Minhāj
Nawawī 1233-1277—Minhāj al-ṭālibīn

Physical Characteristics

File Count
303

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/3572901b-f956-4a61-aae7-9b7964775cf4/manifest