Item Summary

A biography of al-Imām al-Shāṭibī 538-590 [1143/4-1193/4] with special attention to his sainthood and virtues. Incomplete at the end.

Descriptive Information

Title
كتاب مناقب الامام الشاطبي / للشيخ شهاب الدين احمد بن محمد بن ابي بكر القسطلاني.
Transliterated Title
Kitāb Manāqib al-Imām al-Shāṭibī / lil-Shaykh Shihāb al-Dīn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Abī Bakr al-Qasṭallānī.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 253H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcn583z5180
Publisher
[not after 1676]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1400-1676
Format
Manuscript
Extent
102 leaves : paper ; 182 x 133 (123 x 87) mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Ownership statements: [no name] dated 1087 [1676/7] and Aḥmad al-Marzūqī al-Ḥasanī al-Azharī al-Mālikī dated 25 Ramaḍān1247 [February 27, 1832]
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 10123.
Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum orientalium (1846), 88''.
Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), IV, p. 378.
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 701.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Collation: Paper ; fol. 102 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Description: Rubricated ; vowel signs ; MS in fair condition.
Layout: 11 lines per page ; ruled.
Marginal notes and glosses.
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
Colophon: فهذا آخر ما منّ الله به من فيض المکارم لسيرة الشاطبى ابي القسم
Incipit: بسم الله ... الحمد لله الذي فضل بفضله من اختار
Binding Note
Binding completely missing except for a small piece of the spine.

Discovery Information

Subject
Shāṭibī, al-Qāsim ibn Fīrruh 1144-1194—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Muslim scholars—Biography—Early works to 1800
Autographs

Physical Characteristics

File Count
210

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/fcbe8e2b-a470-4223-8854-1775bd998282/manifest