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Subject(s)

• Nawawī 1233-1277—Minhāj al-ṭālibīn [Browse]
• Islamic law—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Shafiites—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Related name

• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 878H [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Headbands [Browse]

Related work(s)

• Rāfiʻī, ʻAbd al-Karīm ibn Muḥammad, 1162-1226. Muḥarrar. [Browse]
• رافعي، عبد الكريم بن محمد، 1162-1226. محرر. [Browse]

Summary note

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.

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.

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.

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