Item Summary

Commentary on the shorter version of the abridgment by Ibn Ḥabīb (d. 807/1405) of Manār al-anwār fī uṣūl al-fiqh by al-Nasafī (d. 710/1310).

Descriptive Information

Title
زبدة الاسرار في شرح مختصر المنار
Transliterated Title
Zubdat al-asrār fī sharḥ Mukhtaṣar al-Manār.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 994Y
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/736667131
Publisher
[1799 or 1800]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1799
Format
Manuscript
Extent
56 leaves: paper ; 234 x 145 (175 x 70) mm. bound to 234 x 150 mm.
Provenance
Two impressions of the same stamp on the margin of the colophon (fol. 53a). Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Mach, R. Yahuda, 912
Brockelmann, C. GAL, SII, 90 (17/1. Cmt. b)
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from preamble of text (fol. 2a, l. 5-6).
Physical description: 21 lines per page. Written in medium large nastaʻlīq in black ink with use of red, mainly to overline the commented text. The text is framed within a single red line (double on fol. 1b-2a). European paper with watermark. Ḥāshiyah and short excerpts from Sharḥ ʻalá al-Mughnī, Ibn Malik, Shaykh Zade, etc. on the margin, apparently in the same hand as the main text. Entry on this text from Kashf al-ẓunūn on fol. 1a by a later hand. Title on tail of text block (hardly legible). Modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals (omits the first fol.).
Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the upper cover: "Uṣūl 57". Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the pastedown of the upper cover: "721/2 Ḥ". Inscription in Arabic script on the pastedown of the lower cover: "Sharḥ 25".
Collation: Paper, fol. 56 ; 1¹⁰ (+1, before fol. 1, fly-leaf) 2-5¹⁰ 6⁴ (+1 at end of quire, fly-leaf) ; the last words of the verso are repeated on the next recto.
Origin: According to colophon, copy completed in 1214 H. [1799 or 1800] (fol. 53a).
Incipit: لك الحمد يا منزل القران بوجوه النظم ووجوه البنيان ولك المجد يا مسيل الفرقان ... اما بعد فيقول العبد المحتاج ابو الثناء احمد بن محمد ابى البركات الريلر ثم السيواسى لمّا قرا عليّ بعض الاخوان الذى لا يسعنى مخالفة ... [2أ] ... قال المصنف رحمة الله عليه الحمد لله الحمد هو الثنآء على الجميل الاختيارى من نعمة او غيرها
Explicit: والبرهان نظيرها اى نظير الحجة وكذا البينة والعرفان ما اشتهر [53أ] ما اشتهر بشهادات العقول وتلقتة الطبايع السليمة بالقبول والعادة ما استمر الناس عليه وعاودوه مرة بعد اخرى تم الكتاب بعون الله الملك الوهاب
Binding Note
Quarter bound with flap in dark brown leather and marbled paper. Yellow paper pastedowns. Spine and fore-edge flap damaged.

Discovery Information

Subject
Islamic law—Interpretation and construction—16th century
Hanafites—16th century
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Ibn Ḥabīb, Ṭāhir ibn al-Ḥasan approximately 1339-1405 or 1406—Mukhtaṣar al-Manār

Physical Characteristics

File Count
60

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/e5e66995-56cd-408d-94ef-d1240ad6d8f6/manifest