Al-Miftāḥ fī Sharḥ Maʿrifat al-Islām: manuscript. The key to explaining knowledge of Islam.
( المفتاح في شرح معرفة الاسلام)

Title	Al-Miftāḥ fī Sharḥ Maʿrifat al-Islām: manuscript. The key to explaining knowledge of Islam.
Title Original	المفتاح في شرح معرفة الاسلام
Publication Date:	[after 1803].
Subject	Muḥammad, Prophet, -632 -- Narrations (Rhetoric), Narration in the Qur'an, Islam -- Study and teaching, Hadith
Type	Book
Language	ara,jav
Digital	No
Manuscript	Yes
Library:	State Library Vectoria
Record ID	9940483062107636
Date	[after 1803].
Notes	• Title supplied by cataloger from 49r., • Romanization supplied by cataloger., • All pages have catchwords., • 17 lines per page., • The main text, interlinear and marginal notes are written by the same hand in black ink with red rubrication. The prophetic ḥadīth is written in red while the commentary and explanation is written in black., • Incipit, folio 49r: In the name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. Praise be to God, who brought His servants out of nothingness into existence and led them, by His grace, from the greed of ignorance to witnesses., • Explicit/ colophon, folio 71v: He concluded this book called the key in explaining the knowledge of Islam and faith, and God knows best., • Binding Note: Textblock wanting its original binding, housed in double layer of unrelated bindings. Outer binding is a wrap-around case of tooled leather (originally red), with one center stamp and four corner pieces, and an envelope flap. The statement “Only the purified shall touch it” on outer binding spine suggests that it may have originally been produced for a copy of the Qur’ān. Laminate paper boards with blue pastedowns. This binding is severely damaged.The inner binding has front and back boards (no longer attached to textblock) but no spine. Tooled leather covers with one center stamp and four corner pieces. Boards appear to be made of laminated paper, lined with waste paper. No traces of envelope flap apparent (edges of the boards are damaged, clear where original turn-ins were). No evidence of endbands; Some evidence of tie-down in purple thread and of link-stitch sewing using five stations. The first 7 folios of the manuscript appear to consist of pages from an book/ledger accounts. Unclear if these pages were originally part of the inner binding. Text block is of European style laid paper with watermark showing a lion holding a sword in a crowned circle. Countermark: Van Gelder (Dutch papermaker in Wormer - see Voorn 1960: pp.433-439, 488). Post 1803.
Sample Text	The third text in a collective volume of four texts bound together and written in one hand. Based on the interlinear Javanese translations and marginal comments, and the content of the volume, this manuscript was possibly used by a student as a text book taught in a pesantren (Islamic school) in Indonesia. This third text contains a discussion of one of the narrations (ḥadīth) of the Prophet Muḥammad explaining the meaning of Islam, Īmān (faith) and Iḥsān (beneficence).
Atıf yapılan kaynak	British Library. Endangered Archives Programme EAP061/1/20, National Library of Indonesia Catalog NB 910
Dil notu	Main text is written in Arabic in Naskh script. There are interlinear Javanese notes and translations as well as few Arabic marginal notes. Vowels and diacritics added to the Arabic text later by the person who did the translations.
Eyalet Kütüphanesi notları	• Michael Abbott Collection., • Provenance: Arabic notes on the upper left corner of folio 10r: "و صاحب هذا الكتاب اصول محمد سورور قرية منتاساري ", which suggests that the owner of this book is Muḥammad Surūr, from Mintasari Village. . Front cover of inner binding has a modern sticker containing number "N010" and a name "From Maduna". Arabic and Javanese notes on folio 8r, name Muḥammad [Tambās?] and Arabic prayers to be recited for a deceased person.

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Al-Miftāḥ fī Sharḥ Maʿrifat al-Islām: manuscript. The key to explaining knowledge of Islam.

( المفتاح في شرح معرفة الاسلام)

Publication Date [after 1803].

Subject Muḥammad, Prophet, -632 -- Narrations (Rhetoric), Narration in the Qur'an, Islam -- Study and teaching, Hadith

Type Book

Language ara,jav

Digital No

Manuscript Yes

Library State Library Vectoria

Record ID 9940483062107636

Date [after 1803].

Notes • Title supplied by cataloger from 49r., • Romanization supplied by cataloger., • All pages have catchwords., • 17 lines per page., • The main text, interlinear and marginal notes are written by the same hand in black ink with red rubrication. The prophetic ḥadīth is written in red while the commentary and explanation is written in black., • Incipit, folio 49r: In the name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. Praise be to God, who brought His servants out of nothingness into existence and led them, by His grace, from the greed of ignorance to witnesses., • Explicit/ colophon, folio 71v: He concluded this book called the key in explaining the knowledge of Islam and faith, and God knows best., • Binding Note: Textblock wanting its original binding, housed in double layer of unrelated bindings. Outer binding is a wrap-around case of tooled leather (originally red), with one center stamp and four corner pieces, and an envelope flap. The statement “Only the purified shall touch it” on outer binding spine suggests that it may have originally been produced for a copy of the Qur’ān. Laminate paper boards with blue pastedowns. This binding is severely damaged.The inner binding has front and back boards (no longer attached to textblock) but no spine. Tooled leather covers with one center stamp and four corner pieces. Boards appear to be made of laminated paper, lined with waste paper. No traces of envelope flap apparent (edges of the boards are damaged, clear where original turn-ins were). No evidence of endbands; Some evidence of tie-down in purple thread and of link-stitch sewing using five stations. The first 7 folios of the manuscript appear to consist of pages from an book/ledger accounts. Unclear if these pages were originally part of the inner binding. Text block is of European style laid paper with watermark showing a lion holding a sword in a crowned circle. Countermark: Van Gelder (Dutch papermaker in Wormer - see Voorn 1960: pp.433-439, 488). Post 1803.

Sample Text The third text in a collective volume of four texts bound together and written in one hand. Based on the interlinear Javanese translations and marginal comments, and the content of the volume, this manuscript was possibly used by a student as a text book taught in a pesantren (Islamic school) in Indonesia. This third text contains a discussion of one of the narrations (ḥadīth) of the Prophet Muḥammad explaining the meaning of Islam, Īmān (faith) and Iḥsān (beneficence).

Atıf yapılan kaynak British Library. Endangered Archives Programme EAP061/1/20, National Library of Indonesia Catalog NB 910

Dil notu Main text is written in Arabic in Naskh script. There are interlinear Javanese notes and translations as well as few Arabic marginal notes. Vowels and diacritics added to the Arabic text later by the person who did the translations.

Eyalet Kütüphanesi notları • Michael Abbott Collection., • Provenance: Arabic notes on the upper left corner of folio 10r: "و صاحب هذا الكتاب اصول محمد سورور قرية منتاساري ", which suggests that the owner of this book is Muḥammad Surūr, from Mintasari Village. . Front cover of inner binding has a modern sticker containing number "N010" and a name "From Maduna". Arabic and Javanese notes on folio 8r, name Muḥammad [Tambās?] and Arabic prayers to be recited for a deceased person.