Item Summary

A work on the ceremonial requirements and the medical aspects of visiting the public bath.

Descriptive Information

Title
النزهة الزهية في احكام الحمام الشرعية والطبية / تأليف عبد الرءوف المناوي.
Transliterated Title
al-Nuzʹhah al-zahīyah fī aḥkām al-ḥammām al-sharʻīyah wa-al-ṭibbīyah / taʼlīf ʻAbd al-Raʼūf al-Munāwī.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 576H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcd504rw966
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1680
Extent
31 leaves : paper ; 187 x 147 (159 x 100) mm. bound to 187 x 151 mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, A.D. 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1113.
Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), VI, p. 326.
Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 6409.
Khulāṣat al-Athar II, p. 415.
Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, VI, p. 206.
Pertsch, Die orientalischen handschriften der Herzoglichen bibliothek zu Gotha, 1985.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
A few marginal notes. Record of births on the title page dated 1091, 1093, and 1108.
Collation: Paper ; fol. 31 ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 19 lines per page ; ruled.
Description: Rubricated ; overlining in red ; watermarks (crown-star-crescent; three crescents) ; MS in good condition.
Origin: According to colophon copied Wednesday 6 Muḥarram [10]91 (fol. 31b).
Incipit: بسم اللهالرحمن الرحيم لله احمد على ما منحني من نعيم القناعة ... وبعد فيقول العبد الضعيف الملتجى الى كرم الرؤف اللطيف عبد الرؤف المناوى رزق الله التوفيق ...
Colophon: تمت المجموعة المبارکة الشريفة بعون الله تعالى وتوفيقه في يوم الاربعة [الاربعاء] سادس شهر محرم الحرام افتتاح سنة احدى وتسعين [والف] بعد الهجرة النبوية عليه افضل الصلاة والتحية وعلى آله وصحبه وسلم م
Binding Note
Contemporaneous? type II (with flap) binding in red leather and red and brown marbled paper. Green paper pastedowns.

Physical Characteristics

File Count
73

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

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