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Item Summary
The first volume of a commentary on Rawḍ al-ṭālib. This in turn is an abridgment by Sharaf al-Din Ismāʻīl ibn al-Muqrī al-Yamanī of Rawḍat al-ṭālibīn.
Descriptive Information
- Title
- الربع الاول من الروض
- Transliterated Title
- al-Rubʻ al-awwal min al-Rawḍ
- Call Number
- Oversize Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 895Hq
- Identifier
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dczp38wr69g
- Publisher
- [16th century?]
- Language
- Arabic
- Date Created
- 1500-1599
- Format
- Manuscript
- Extent
- 263 leaves : paper ; 279 x 187 (210 x 135) mm bound to 278 x 193 mm.
- Provenance
- Acquired from Brill, Leyden, A. D. 1900.
- Source Acquisition
- Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
- References
- Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1809.
- Rights Statement
- Copyright Not Evaluated
- Notes
- Ms. codex.
- Title from caption (fol. 1a).
- Marginal notes and glosses. Incomplete at the beginning.
- Collation: Paper ; fol. 263 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
- Layout: 31 lines per page.
- Description: Text in red and commentary in black ; MS in good condition.
- Origin: Probably from the XVIth century.
- Beginning: ان شا الله قم مع بلا لظالق عليه ...
- Colophon: تم الربع الاول من الروض تاليف سيدنا ومولانا وشيخنا وقدوتنا الى الله تعالي زين الدين ابي يحيى زكريا الانصاري الشافعي ... والاخرة بحمد اله وصحبه وسلم تسليما كثيرا دايما ابدا الي يوم الدين والحمد لله رب العالمين م م م
- Binding Note
- Later type II (with flap) binding in red leather and violet paper. Not sewn.
Discovery Information
- Subject
- Ibn al-Muqrī, Ismāʻīl ibn Abī Bakr 1354-1433 or 1434—Rawḍ al-ṭālib
- Nawawī 1233-1277—Rawḍat al-ṭālibīn wa-ʻumdat al-muftīn
- Rāfiʻī, ʻAbd al-Karīm ibn Muḥammad 1162-1226—Fatḥ al-ʻAzīz fī sharḥ al-Wajīz
- Ghazzālī 1058-1111—Wajīz
- Islamic law—Interpretation and construction—Early works to 1800
- Shafiites—Early works to 1800
- Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Physical Characteristics
- File Count
- 538
Institutional Information
- Collection
- Manuscripts of the Islamic World
- IIIF Manifest URL
-
https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/24761334-1a30-4328-bac5-a5885ab75b66/manifest




















