Item Summary

A commentary on al-Arbaʻūn of al-Nawawī.

Descriptive Information

Title
هذا كتاب الجواهر البهية في شرح الاربعين النووية / تأليف ابو الفضل محمد ولي الدين الشبشيري الشافعي.
Transliterated Title
Hādhā Kitāb al-Jawāhir al-bahīyah fī sharḥ al-Arbaʻīn al-Nawawīyah / taʼlīf Abū al-Faḍl Muḥammad Walī al-Dīn al-Shibshīrī al-Shāfiʻī.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 753H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dc028717115
Publisher
13 Rabīʻ al-Awwal 1141 [October 6, 1729]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1729
Format
Manuscript
Extent
118 leaves : paper ; 217 x 161 (160 x 95) mm bound to 215 x 165 mm.
Provenance
Ownership signature: ʻAlī, Nāʼib al-Ḥaram dated [1]269 (fol. 1a). Other inscriptions on the title page are obscured. Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1436.
Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), I, p. 241.
Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, I, pp. 327/8.
Pertsch, Die orientalischen handschriften der Herzoglichen bibliothek zu Gotha, 616.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
Marginal notes and glosses. Waqf note at beginning and ending of each quire erased.
Collation: Paper ; fol. 108 + i ; catchwords ; quires partially signed: al-thānī-al-ʻāshir ; foliation in ink using Hindu-Arabic numerals ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 23 lines per page.
Description: Text in red and commentary in black ; MS in good condition.
Origin: According to colophon copied 13 Rabīʻ al-Awwal 1141 by its owner (fol. 118b).
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه النستعين قال سيدنا ومولانا الشيخ العالم ... ابو الفصل محمد ولي الدين الشبشيري ... حمدًا لمن افاض فضله على العالم ... وبعد فان خير اربعين مولف في سنة النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم ...
Colophon: وکان الفراغ من کتابته يوم الثلاث عاشر يوم شهر ربيع الاول من شهور سنة الف وماية سبعة واربعين من الهجرة النبوية على صاحبها افضل الصلاة والسلام والحمد لله اولا واخرًا وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد وعلى اله وصحبه وسلم امين
Binding Note
Contemporaneous? half-bound type III (without flap) binding in brown leather and marbled paper. Badly worn. Possibly a type II binding without its flap.

Discovery Information

Subject
Nawawī 1233-1277—Arbaʻūn al-Nawawīyah
Hadith—Commentaries—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
donation inscriptions
Autographs

Physical Characteristics

File Count
246

Institutional Information

Collection
Princeton’s Holdings of the al-Madani Library
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/df1f37ad-b37b-4393-9cd3-9e3cc879def1/manifest