Item Summary

Miscellany consisting of three(?) incomplete texts.

Descriptive Information

Title
كتاب المنح الوفيه على شرح المقدمة العزيه ... [الخ].
Transliterated Title
Kitāb al-Minaḥ al-wafīyah ʻalá sharḥ al-Muqaddimah al-ʻIzzīyah ... [etc].
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 364L
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcws859t98k
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1600-1899
Format
Manuscript
Extent
113 leaves : paper ; 200 x 145 (155 x 95-100) mm bound to 206 x 148 mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1904, from the books of Amīn ibn Ḥasan al-Ḥulwānī al-Madanī al-Ḥanafī (Medina).
Source Acquisition
Gift; Robert Garrett (Class of 1897), 1942.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Contents
1. fol. 1a-29b?: Kitāb al-Minaḥ al-wafīyah ʻalá sharḥ al-Muqaddimah al-ʻIzzīyah / taʼlīf Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Muḥibb al-Dīn ibn Aḥmad al-Fīshī al-Mālikī. Incomplete at end.
2. fol. 30a-83b: [Commentary on the basmalah]. Contains a table (fol. 61a). Incomplete at beginning.
3. fol. 84a-113b: [Glossary of medical terms with grammatical explanations]. Incomplete at beginning and end.
Notes
Ms. composite codex.
Title from title page of first work (fol. 1a).
Marginal notes. Label on upper cover: "KE 305". Fawāʼid (fol. 1a). Insert.
Collation: Paper ; fol. 113 + i ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 21-23 lines per page.
Description: Watermarks (hand?; coat-of-arms with an animal?; crown-star-crescent; fol. 84-113: horse and rider) ; folios 84-114 tinted red ; MS in fair to poor condition, fol. 30-83 stained affecting legibility.
Origin: [Commentary on the basmallah] Written by Rabīʻ al-Ghumartī? in [1]221? (fol. 83b).
Incipit: [كتاب المنح الوفيه] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم ... قال جامعه محمد بن محمد بن محمد بن محب الدين ... الحمد لله الذي من علينا بخدمة السنة المحمدية ... وبعد فقد التمس مني بعض الاخوان ذوى القوى الا لمعنه جمعنا الله تعالى واياه بدار المقامات السرمدية ان اضع على المقدمة العزية ... -- [Commentary] ... لاخراج من ذكر اذ مراده تعريف؟ من يسماه بعد موته ... -- [Glossary] ... الموحدة وباخره همزة الثقل مضاف الى الخلافة وكاهله فاعل شديد ...
Binding Note
Later quarter-bound type III (without flap) binding in dark brown leather and dark paper. Multi-colored endbands.

Discovery Information

Subject
Shādhilī, Abū al-Ḥasan ʻAlī ibn ʻAbd Allāh approximately 1196-1258—Muqaddimah al-ʻIzzīyah
Islamic law—Early works to 1800
Malikites—Early works to 1800
Basmalah
Medicine, Arab
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Headbands
Watermarks
Colored papers

Physical Characteristics

File Count
238

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/d2864803-6587-406b-912e-2b2b8df62625/manifest