Item Summary

Commentary on the Zaydi law text, Ghayth al-midrār al-mufattiḥ li-kamāʼim al-Azhār fī fiqh al-aʼimmah al-aṭhār by the Imam Ibn al-Murtạdá (1363-1437). Notes and extracts on fol. 1a, 377b-378b; unidentified text on fol. 378a-378b dated 1093 H. [1682].

Descriptive Information

Title
[المنتزع المختار من غيث المدرار].
Transliterated Title
[al-Muntazaʻ al-mukhtār min Ghayth al-midrār].
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 2436Y
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/2514nk91t
Publisher
[1650-1682]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1650-1682
Extent
378 leaves : paper ; 305 x 210 (220 x 120) mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Mach, R. Yahuda, no. 1588
Brockelmann, GAL, II, 239 (I, 2); S II, 244.
Notes
Ms. codex.
Physical description: 31 lines per page; written in naskhi in black on cream European glazed, laid paper. Original text in red; catchwords; extensive marginal and interlinear notes and glosses. Entries in large script. Text on fol. 1b framed in black; on fol. 80a-377a framed in red. Legal topic discussed in the text written on recto of each leaf (beginning on fol. 2a) in upper left corner. Numerous inserts containing notes and glosses. Outer edges of first and last few leaves worn with some loss of marginalia.
Origin: Copy completed 2 Rabīʻ I 1080 H. [5 March 1650].
Incip.: ... مقدمة لا ىسع المقلد جهلها
Binding Note
Rebound 2012.

Physical Characteristics

File Count
868

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/7c7e8188-784e-4aeb-979e-63a896244237/manifest