Item Summary

Treatise on the differences between the legal schools. The text is followed on fol. 9b-10a by a prayer to the Prophet (Ṣalāt ʻalá al-Nabī) and by two additions (Fāʼidah) on the proprieties of Sūrat al-Kahf to wake up at a given time of the night, and on the Duʻā Sūrat al-Kahf. This is a portion of a larger manuscript (fol. 11-20, see foliation using Arabic numerals).

Descriptive Information

Title
كتاب جزيل المواهب في اختلاف المذاهب / تأليف مولانا الشيخ جلال الدين عبد الرحمن السيوطي
Transliterated Title
Kitāb Jazīl al-mawāhib fī ikhtilāf al-madhāhib / taʼlīf Mawlānā al-Shaykh JalāL al-Dīn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān al-Suyūṭī.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 1811Y
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/3197xp66t
Publisher
[18--?]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1800-1999
Format
Manuscript
Extent
10 leaves: paper ; 210 x 145 (155 x 105) mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Mach, R. Yahuda, 1678
Iqbāl, A. al-Shirqāwī. Maktabat al-Jalāl al-Suyūṭī (1977), no. 240
Shaybānī, M. Dalīl makhṭūṭāt al-Suyūṭī (1995), no. 231
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
23 lines per page. Written in thick medium small naskh in black ink with use of red. Glazed European paper with watermark ("Tre lune"). Mention "Tāj al-Dīn al-Muwaqqit" on fol. 1a. Obliterated seal on fol. 1a (large heart-shape).
Collation: Paper, fol. 10 ; 1¹⁰ ; catchword on the verso of each leaf.
Incipit: اللهم يا ولي العصمة والعناية نسالك الهداية في البداية والنهاية ... روي البيهقي في المدخل بسنده عن ابن عباس
Explicit: ومات سنة 738 ابو حيان كان اولا علي مذهب اهل الظاهر ثم انتقل الي مذهب الشافعي رضي الله تعالي عنه وهذا اخر الرسالة و صلي الله ... [9أ] ... من لا نبي بعده واله وصحبه اجمعين والحمد لله رب العالمين

Discovery Information

Subject
Qurʼan Sūrat al-Kahf
Islamic law—Early works to 1800
Prayer—Islam—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton

Physical Characteristics

File Count
15

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/a368aae3-2a76-4fb9-be19-e828249b0b7d/manifest