Item Summary

Treatise on ʻibādāt. According to the end of the text, the work was completed on Friday, 14(?) Jumādá al-Ūlá 1032 [March 1623] (fol. 23b). The text is followed on fol. 24a-b by a prayer in ottoman Turkish, entitled "Riwāyāt al-udá", written by a later hand.

Descriptive Information

Title
كتاب نور الايضاح من الفقه / للشرنبلالي
Transliterated Title
Kitāb Nūr al-īḍāḥ min al-fiqh / lil-Shurunbilālī.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 5240Y
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/rb68xf470
Publisher
[1778]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1778
Extent
25 leaves : paper ; 210 x 140 (170 x 111) mm. bound to 210 x 145 mm.
Provenance
Seal of Muḥammad Nūrī on fol. 24b. Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Mach, R. Yahuda, 1690
Brockelmann, C. GAL, II, 313 (12/4) ; SII
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from inscription on fol. 1a (later hand).
Physical description: 21 lines per page. Written in medium large naskh in black ink with use of red. The text is framed in gold outlined in black. European paper with watermark.
Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the upper cover: "Thānī 531". Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the pastedown of the upper cover: "Ḥ 1167".
Origin: According to colophon, copy completed on 14 R[ajab] 1192 [Aug. 7, 1778] (fol. 23b).
Incipit: يا حى يا قيوم بسم ... الحمد لله رب العالمين والصلاة والسلام ... وبعد فيقول العبد الفقير الى مولاه الغنى ابو الاخلاص حسن الشرينبلالى الحنفى انه التمس منى بعض الاخلا ... ان اعمل مقدمة فى العبادات تقرب على المبتدى ... كتاب الطهارة المياه التى يجوز التطهير بها سبع مياه
Incipit Riwāyāt al-udá (fol. 24a): حازي رت ايوب انى حسنى الضر وانت ارحم الرحمين
Binding Note
Dark brown leather over paper pasteboards for upper and lower covers. Silver tooled central lozenge consisting of knot-work, with flecks and long lines developing from its corners. Outer frame consists of a gold tooled fillet and a guilloche. Yellow paper pastedown.

Physical Characteristics

File Count
31

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/55229e92-d0df-4ec9-b7c8-1c1a774bfc77/manifest