Item Summary

The first volume of al-Bahjah al-marḍīyah, a commentary on al-Bahjah al-Wardīyah of Ibn al-Wardī which is a versification of al-Hāwī al-ṣaghīr of Qazwīnī. It begins with the chapter on al-ṭahārah and ends with qismat al-ṣadaqāt.

Descriptive Information

Title
الجزؤ الاول من شرح البهجة / لشيخ الاسلام ابو زرعة ولي الدين احمد بن ابي الفضل زين الدين عبد الرحيم بن الحسين العراقي.
Transliterated Title
al-Juzʼ al-awwal min Sharḥ al-Bahjah / li-Shaykh al-Islām Abū Zurʻah Walī al-Dīn Aḥmad ibn Abī al-Faḍl Zayn al-Dīn ʻAbd al-Raḥīm ibn al-Ḥusayn al-ʻIrāqī.
Call Number
Oversize Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 884Hq
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dc6d5707873
Publisher
18 Ramaḍān 854 [November 3, 1450]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1450
Format
Manuscript
Extent
261 leaves : paper ; 272 x 182 (200 x 130) mm bound to 278 x 200 mm.
Provenance
Ownership signature of ʻAbd Allāh ibn ʻAqīl ibn ʻUmar dated 1259 (fol. 1a and 261b). Seal impression inside upper cover "M.Ṣ.Ṭ fī 229". Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1806.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
Marginal notes and glosses; marginal summaries. Title page covers with inscriptions. Folio 30 has been supplied by a later hand.
Collation: Paper ; fol. 261 ; quires signed: 2-26 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 31 lines per page ; ruled.
Description: Rubricated ; verse separators and abbreviations in red ; MS in fair condition; worm-eaten.
Origin: According to colophon copied 18 Ramaḍān 854 by ʻAlī ibn Sūdūn al-Bashbughāwī (fol. 261b).
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه ثقتى قال الشيخ الامام العالم العلامة ... ابو زرعة ولي الدين احمد بن ... العراقي ... اما بعد حمد الله على آلائه وصلاة والسلام علي سيدنا محمد ... فهذا تعليق ... على البهجة الوردية ...
Colophon: يتلوه في الجزء الثاني باب النکاح ان شاء الله تعالى. في ثامن عشر رمضان المعظم سنة اربع وخمسين وثمانمائة على يد الفقير الى الله تعالى علي بن سودون البشبغاوي غفرالله له ولمن دعا له آمين
Binding Note
Later type II (with flap) binding in brown leather. Blind-stamped mandorla and blind-tooled edging on covers. Similar decoration on flap. Repairs in lighter-colored leather. Cover in poor condition. Lower cover and flap lined in leather.

Discovery Information

Subject
Ibn al-Wardī, Zayn al-Dīn ʻUmar ibn al-Muẓaffar -1349—Bahjah al-Wardīyah
Fatwas—Early works to 1800
Shafiites—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Blind tooled bindings
Autographs
Stamps

Physical Characteristics

File Count
533

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/919cbc80-ca03-40f0-8d0f-b416ee8706b6/manifest