Item Summary

Elegant copy of a treatise on Shāfiʻī fiqh.

Descriptive Information

Title
كتاب المنهاج / تأليف الشيخ الامام محيي الدين ابي زكريا يحيى بن شرف النووي العالم الرباني رحمه الله
Transliterated Title
Kitāb al-Minhāj / taʾlīf al-Shaykh al-imām Muḥyī al-Dīn Abī Zakaryā Yaḥyá ibn Sharaf al-Nawawī al-ʻālim al-rabbānī raḥimahu Allāh.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 1388Y
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/gm80hx95n
Publisher
[1335 or 1336?]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1335-1499
Format
Manuscript
Extent
126 leaves : paper ; 172 x 115 (130 x 85) mm. bound to 175 x 130 mm.
Provenance
Two ownership statements on fol. 1a, in the name of Badr al-Dīn al-Manāshīrī al-Shāfiʻī and of Aḥmad ibn Badr al-Dīn, the latter with impression of a seal. Two ownership statements, one dated 763, and impression of one seal on fol. 2a. Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Mach, R. Yahuda, 1426
Brockelmann, C. GAL, I, 395 (30/I) ; SI, 680
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from illuminated title page (fol. 2a).
Physical description: 21 lines per page. Written in small naskh in black ink with use of red. The text is vocalized. Marginal annotations by several hands. Fol. 2-2bis mended, with missing text re-written on the repair. Fol. 1, 122, 123 are later additions. Fol. 100-100bis are later replacements. Several inscriptions, including verses of poetry and ownership statements on fol. 1a. Pagination in black ink using arabic numerals on the middle of the upper margin. Modern foliation in pencil using western numerals (faulty).
Decoration: Illuminated title page executed ingold and colors on fol. 2a (colors faded; upper portion of leaf wanting).
Inscription in Roman script on a label pasted on the pastedown of the upper cover: "A252". Other inscriptions on the same pastedown: "151" (in Western numerals) ; "Raqm 214" (in Arabic script).
Origin: According to inscription at the end of the colophon, copied by Aḥmad ibn Qāyātī, 736 H. (fol. 121b). The ms. appears however to date to a later period, probably the 15th century. Collation statement on the margin of the colophon, mentioning a samāʻ note dated 736 H. written on the exemplar.
Incipit: بسم ... وما توفيقى الا بالله الحمد لله البر الجواد الذى جلت نعمه عن الاحصا بالاعداد ... اما بعد فان الاشتغال بالعلم من افضل الطاعات واولى ما انفعت فيه نفايس الاوقات وقد اكثر اصحابنا رحمهم الله من التصنيف من المبسوطات والمختصرات
Explicit: وعتف المستولدة من رأس المال
Binding Note
Brown leather with flap. Both covers have a blind stamped central lobed mandorla with pendants on the vertical axis and an outer border consisting of two fillets. Similar border and smaller stamp on the envelope flap. Paper pastedowns.

Discovery Information

Subject
Islamic law—History—13th century—Sources
Shafiites—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton

Physical Characteristics

File Count
260

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/acbfe932-0d72-4260-b46e-6468c469cf3e/manifest