Item Summary

Second part of 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-Rajʻah to Kitāb al-Siyar (starts on fol. 228a).

Descriptive Information

Title
الجزء الثاني من التكملة / للزركشي
Transliterated Title
al-Juzʼ al-thānī min al-Takmilah / lil-Zarkashī.
Call Number
Oversize Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 2561Yq
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/gh93h210t
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1465
Extent
253 leaves : paper ; 278 x 185 (190 x 125) mm.
Provenance
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 inscription on fol. 1a. The same title appears in the colophon (fol. 253a).
Physical description: 33 lines per page. Written in medium large naskh in black ink with use of red for headings and entries. Yāʼ for alif maqṣūrah. Cream paper, glossy, with pulp visible. The text has been collated (see collation statement, fol. 253a, margin). A few slips of paper with inscriptions placed between the original leaves (see between fol. 73 and 74). Kabīkaj on fol. 1a. First six leaves eaten by rodents, with important loss of text.
Collation: Paper, fol. 253 ; 1¹⁰ (-2 at beginning of quire) 2-25¹⁰ 26⁴ (+1 at beginning of quire) ; catchword on the verso of each leaf.
Origin: Copied for himself (li-nafsih) by ʻAlī ibn Ḥasan ibn ʻAlī al-Māridīnī al-Shāfiʻī, nazīl Bayt al-Muqaddas, who completed the copy in al-Masjid al-Aqṣá on Wednesday 9 Rabīʻ al-Awwal 870 [Oct. 30, 1465] (colophon, fol. 253a).
Incipit: كتاب الرجعة هى بفتح الزآ افصح ز كسرها
Explicit: الثاني طرد القولين في الاسلام ممنوع لما ذكرنا الثالث حكاية الخلاف وجهين مردود بل هما قولان والعجب انه قد صرّح به في المحرّر
Binding Note
Unbound. Only the spine (brown leather on green cloth, damaged) is extant.

Physical Characteristics

File Count
262

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/ae776dc7-021f-4c38-9b83-bae6f11fb2bd/manifest