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Subject(s)

• Muḥammad Prophet -632 [Browse]
• Qurʼan—Commentaries [Browse]
• Ibn Ḥabīb, Ṭāhir ibn al-Ḥasan approximately 1339-1405 or 1406—Mukhtaṣar al-Manār [Browse]
• Nasafī, ʻAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad -1310—Manār al-anwār fī al-uṣūl [Browse]
• Ibn al-Ḥājib, ʻUthmān ibn ʻUmar 1175-1249—Kāfiyah [Browse]
• Islamic law—Interpretation and construction—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Hanafites—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Islam—Rituals [Browse]
• Arabic language—Grammar [Browse]
• Arabic language—Syntax [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Related name

• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 376L [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Watermarks [Browse]
• Headbands [Browse]
• Stamps [Browse]

Contains

• Ibn Quṭlūbughā, al-Qāsim ibn ʻAbd Allāh, 1399 or 1400-1474 or 1475. Sharḥ al-Mukhtaṣar al-Manār. [Browse]
• ابن قطلوبغا، القاسم بن عبد الله، 1399 or 1400-1474 or 1475. شرح المختصر المنار. [Browse]

Summary note

Collection of fragmentary texts on various topics including grammar, the Prophet, ḥajj, ṭahārah, transactions, and Qurʼanic commentary.

Notes

• Ms. composite codex.
• Title supplied by cataloger.
• Marginal notes. Label on upper cover: "KE 285[?]".
• Collation: Paper ; fol. 175 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 15-31 lines per page.
• Description: Rubricated ; watermarks (three crescents; anchor; crown-star-crescent; hand; roman-alphabet lettering "Br..."; cross; coat-of-arms; grapes; other unidentified marks) ; MS in good to fair condition.
• Origin: Leaf 7b dated end of Jumādá al-Awwal? 1021 [1612]; leaf 33b dated 7 Dhū al-Qaʻdah 1187 [January 20, 1774]; leaf 72a dated [1] Jumādá al-Awwal 1234 [February 26,1819]; leaf 175a dated 15 Muḥarram 1215 [June 8, 1800]
• Incipit: [شرح المختصر المنار] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الهم لا سهل الا ما جعله سهلا ... وبعد فان الفقير الى رحمة ربه الغني قاسم الحنفي ... -- [14أ] ... الموعظة وعن اعطاء السأيل وعن الاعمال الصالحة ... -- [41أ] ... من الرواة عن هو لا اليمة قالون ... -- [115أ] ... فما هالك امر عرف قدره ويقول لاهل النهى ... -- [122أ] ... مقدم لكان اى كان ما يتلفظ به الانسان مهملا ... -- [139أ] ... على احد الوجوه التي سبقت وانما قال بنورهم ولم يقل بنارهم ... -- [156أ] ... يتنعمون وبين اثار قدرته وعجايب عظمته يترددون وبالانقطاع اليه ...

Binding note

Later quarter-bound type III (without flap) binding in dark brown leather and dark paper. Multi-colored endbands.

Language note

Arabic.

Contents

• 1. fol. 1a-3b: Sharḥ al-Mukhtaṣar al-manār / lil-Shaykh Qāsim al-Ḥanafī.
• 2. fol. 4a-13b: [Miscellaneous leaves]
• 3. fol. 14a-21b, 57a-70b, 92a-97b: [Commentary on the Qurʼan]. Pages are out of order.
• 4. fol. 22a-40b: [Miscellaneous leaves]
• 5. fol. 41a-48b: [Treatise on grammar]
• 6. fol. 49a-56b: [Miscellaneous leaves]
• 7. fol. 71a-91b: [Miscellaneous leaves]
• 8. fol. 98a-114b: [Miscellaneous leaves]
• 9. fol. 115a-120b: [Unidentified text]
• 10. fol. 121a-121b: [Unidentified leaf]
• 11. fol. 122a-136b: [Commentary on Ibn al-Ḥājib's Kafīyah]. On grammar and syntax.
• 12. fol. 137a-138b: [Unidentified leaves]
• 13. fol. 139a-155b: [Commentary on Ṣūrat al-Baqarah]. Fragment covers verses 17-30.
• 14. fol. 156a-161b: [Praise of the Prophet]
• 15. fol. 164a-175b: [Miscellaneous leaves]

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Provenance

Seal impression (fol. 33b). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1904, from the books of Amīn ibn Ḥasan al-Ḥulwānī al-Madanī al-Ḥanafī (Medina).

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

858940650

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