Princeton University, Islamic Manuscripts Garrett no. 722Y

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DS ID:

DS27667

Shelfmark:

Islamic Manuscripts Garrett no. 722Y

Title:

Kitāb Sharḥ al-minhāj / / كتاب شرح المنهاج /

Sharḥ Minhāj al-ṭālibīn

Author:

Maḥallī, Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad, 1389-1459 / محلي، جلال الدين محمد بن احمد

Jalaluddin al-Mahalli WIKIDATA

Place:

Egypt?

Egypt TGN

Date:

1482

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

ara

Arabic WIKIDATA

Material:

paper

Paper AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 332 leaves: paper ; 182 x 133 (130 x 100) mm.

Note:

Ms. codex.
Title from illuminated title page (fol. 1a). The name of the author appears on fol. 1a and in the colophon, fol. 332b.
Physical description: 25 lines per page. Written in small naskh in black ink with use of red. Simply illuminated title page (ʻunwān) on fol. 1a. Thick light cream paper with pulp, and laid and chain lines visible. The quires (mainly quinions with a few quaternions) are numbered using Arabic numerals (see "2" on fol. 11a). Catchword on the verso of each leaf. The first leaf is damaged. Kabīkaj...
The title page has a rectangular panel on its upper part, with the title written in gold outlined in black in a cloud cartouche left blank over a ground hatched in red, inscribed in a rectangular frame of one single black line. This is inscribed in a frame consisting of two gold lines outlined in black. Underneath the rectangular panel is a roundel with a similar decoration, except for the...
Origin: Copied for himself by Ḥasan ibn ʻAlī ibn Ḥasan al-Qāhirī Ibn ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad al-Shabshīrī, on Tuesday 11 Shaʻbān 887 [Sept. 24, 1482] (colophon, fol. 332b). At the end of the colophon, the copyist adds the text of an ijāzah written by the author for Zayn al-Dīn Abū al-Khayr Muḥammad al-Māwardī, dated 6 Shaʻbān 860 [July 10, 1456].
Several ownership statements on fol. 1a, some obliterated, one in the name of Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyá ibn [---] al-Dasūqī, dated Dhū al-Ḥijjah 1176 [July 1763], with seal. Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Arabic

Egypt

Fifteenth century

illuminations (paintings)

title pages

Islamic Empire

Shafiites

Early works

Minhāj al-ṭālibīn (Nawawī)

Islamic law

New Jersey--Princeton

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/9951927603506421

IIIF Manifest:

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/644f25fb-8308-4de3-be61-2aed8c1c2b4b/manifest

Holding Institution:

Princeton University