Item Summary

Treatise on the principles of jurisprudence.

Descriptive Information

Title
منار.
Transliterated Title
Manār.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 810H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dc8623j9030
Publisher
Muḥarram 950 [April 1543]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1543
Format
Manuscript
Extent
106 leaves : paper ; 156 x 110 (90 x 52) mm bound to 160 x 112 mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, A.D. 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1632.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from lower edge of text block.
Marginal and interlinear notes and glosses. Inscriptions on folio 106b.
Collation: Paper ; fol. ii + 106 + ii ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 7 lines per page ; ruled.
Description: Rubricated ; watermarks (anchor) ; MS in good condition.
Origin: According to colophon copied end of Muḥarram 950 by Fatḥ Allāh ibn Yaḥyá ibn Nūr Allāh al-Naṭanzī (fol. 106a).
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله الذى هدانا الى الصراط المستقيم ... اعلم ان اصول الشرع ثلثه الكتاب والسنة واجماع الامة والاصل الرابع القياس اما الكتاب فالقران المنزل على الرسول ...
Explicit: تم الكتاب حامد الله تعالى ومصليا على محمد نبيه وعلى آله وعرقه على يد اضعف عباد الله فتح الله بن نحيى بن نور الله النطنزي في اواخر محرم الحرام سنة 950 خمسين وتسعمائه بارك الله لكتابته ولصاحبه ولقارئه ولمن نظر فيه وفقر آمين يا رب العالمين م
Binding Note
Later type III (without flap) binding in dark brown leather with lighter brown spine. Multi-colored endbands. Blue paper pastedowns and flyleaves.

Discovery Information

Subject
Islamic law—Interpretation and construction—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton

Physical Characteristics

File Count
226

Institutional Information

Collection
Princeton’s Holdings of the al-Madani Library
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/dca9139f-af6f-4c45-b16c-781d3de690af/manifest