A commentary on Nuzʹhat al-naẓar by Ibn Ḥajar al-ʻAsqalānī. This in turn is the commentary by Ibn Ḥajar al-ʻAsqalānī on his own work, Nukhbat al-fikar fī muṣṭalaḥ ahl al-athar.
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
A few marginal notes. It is stated in the original colophon that the work was composed 1024/1615. Calculations and inscription dated 1252 inside upper cover.
Collation: Paper ; fol. 130 ; catchwords ; quires signed: 1-13 ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 23 lines per page ; frame-ruled in red.
Description: Text in red and commentary in black ; watermarks (anchor) ; MS in good condition except worm-eaten.
Origin: According to colophon copied Sunday 24 Shawwāl 1027 by Abū al-ʻAbbās ibn Muḥammad al-Ghamrī al-Nabtītī ibn al-Jammāl (fol. 130a).
Incipit: باسمه تقدس استفتح وبه استعين واستنجح. الحمد لله الذي جعل اهل في الحديث والقديم ... وبعد فيقول العبد الحقير القائم علي قدم القصور والتقصير محمد المدعو عبد الروف ابن المناوي الشافعي ...
Colophon: وقد تم نسخه يوم الاحد 24 شهر شوال سنة 1027 على يد کاتبه الفقير ابو العباس ابن محمد الغمري النبتيتي ابن الجمال الذي نطق له الجمل تم
Binding note
Later type III (without flap) binding in dark brown leather. Blind-stamped mandorla with pendants. Blind-tooled edging. Tan paper pastedowns. Cover apparently re-used.
Provenance
Ownership signatures: Mūsá ibn ʻAbd Allāh al-Ḥanafī dated 1107, Sharaf al-Dīn ibn Shaykh al-Islām, Muḥammad ibn Khalīfah (fol. 1a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1468.
Khulāṣat al-Athar II, p. 413.
Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, I, p. 255.
Other format(s)
Also available in an electronic version.
Other title(s)
شرح النخبة
Title on lower edge of text block
Sharḥ al-Nukhbah
OCLC
1340425727
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