Item Summary

A commentary on Manār al-anwār.

Descriptive Information

Title
هذا شرح المنار لابن الملك في اصول الفقه.
Transliterated Title
Hādhā Sharḥ al-Manār li-Ibn al-Malak fī uṣūl al-fiqh.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 228L
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcvx021t24t
Publisher
[between 1600 and 1850]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1600-1850
Format
Manuscript
Extent
208 leaves : paper ; 210 x 153 (155 x 104) mm bound to 210 x 155 mm.
Provenance
Ownership signature and seal obscured for Muṣṭafá (fol. 1a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1904.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1636.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
Marginal and interlinear notes and glosses. Inscriptions following text (fol. 208a).
Collation: Paper ; fol. 208 ; catchwords ; foliation in ink using Hindu-Arabic numerals ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 21 lines per page.
Description: Watermarks (three crescents, roman-alphabet initial countermark with trefoil; fol. 208: seated figure) ; MS in good condition.
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه نستعين لله الحي الاحد حمد لا يحتويه الحد على ما اولانا من علم الفروع ... ويقول بعج اللطيف بن فرشته ...
Colophon: تم بحمد لله تم تم تم م
Binding Note
Later type III (without flap) binding in red leather. Blind-stamped mandorla with pendants and blind-tooled edging. Endbands. Spine replaced. Possibly a type II binding with the flap removed.

Discovery Information

Subject
Nasafī, ʻAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad -1310—Manār al-anwār fī al-uṣūl
Islamic law—Interpretation and construction—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Blind tooled bindings
Watermarks
Autographs
Stamps

Physical Characteristics

File Count
426

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/f7315e7a-d17d-44a5-b07c-4c4b6a4c50c6/manifest