Item Summary

A part of a commentary on Minhāj al-ṭālibīn, an abridgment by al-Nawawī of al-Muḥarrar fī fiqh al-Imām al-Shāfiʻī, a work on Shāfiʻite law by Abū al-Qāsim ʻAbd al-Karīm ibn Muḥammad al-Rāfiʻī al-Qazwīnī.

Descriptive Information

Title
كتاب عجالة المحتاج لشرح المنهاج / للعالم العلامة سراج الدين ابي حفص عمر نجل نور الدين ابي الحسن علي بن شهاب الدين احمد الشهير بابن الملقن الانصاري.
Transliterated Title
Kitāb ʻUjālat al-muḥtāj li-sharḥ al-Minhāj / lil-ʻĀlam al-ʻAllāmah Sirāj al-Dīn Abī Ḥafṣ ʻUmar najl Nūr al-Dīn Abī al-Ḥasan ʻAlī ibn Shihāb al-Dīn Aḥmad al-shahīr bi-Ibn al-Mulaqqin al-Anṣārī.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 878H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dc9g54xw05w
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1500-1599
Extent
(II), 273, (1) leaves : paper ; 275 x 182 (206 x 132) mm bound to 262 x 170 mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1791.
Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), VI, p. 205.
Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, III, p. 244.
Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 4531-5.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
Marginal notes and glosses. MS is incomplete at the end. The first two folios are supplied by a later hand.
Collation: Paper ; fol. (II) + 273 + (1) ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 33 lines per page.
Description: Rubricated ; watermarks (later endpapers and fol. 1-2 only: three crescents) ; MS in fair condition; mended.
Origin: Probably from the XVIth century.
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم رب يسر يا كريم ... وبعد فلما يسر الله الفراغ من شرحي لمنهاج العلامة محي الدين ركريا النووي قدس اللهروحه ...
Ending: فان اعتقه المصدق فالمذهب انه يقوم عليه
Binding Note
Later type II (with flap) binding in brown leather and yellow paper. Trace of stamped mandorla on upper cover. Flap missing; spine leather largely missing. Multi-colored endbands. Binding is evidently re-used as it does not fit the MS.

Physical Characteristics

File Count
560

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/47d5decc-8101-4026-9989-505753b90e76/manifest