Details

Subject(s)

• Islamic law—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Shīʻah—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Persian—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Summary note

Treatise on Imāmī fiqh translated into Persian (see fol. 1b, l. 7), comprising 18 parts, from Kitāb al-ṭahārah to Kitāb al-qiṣaṣ.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from colophon (fol. 161b).
• 23 lines per page. Written in black ink with use of red. Glazed dark cream paper with laid lines visible. Some leaves apparently wanting between fol. 8 and 9. Some leaves are mended (see fol. 1 and 2). Marginal notes. Inscriptions on fol. 1a. Seals on fol. 1a and 161b.
• Copied in 977 (colophon, fol. 161[bis]b).
• Incipit: الحمد لله العليّ الذّي اجتبى جيبة المجتبي واصطفى صفيه المصطفى ... وبعد پوشيده نماند كه بنابر اشارت واجب الطاعة
• Explicit: واكر قاتل ان متعدد باشند لازم شود بر هر يک کفاره کامل

Binding note

Upper and lower covers made of brown leather over paper pasteboard. Leather doublure. The spine and the edges of the covers have been repaired.

Provenance

Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

Other title(s)

• كتاب فقه امامية
• دوره فقه فارسي
• جامع المسائل الامامية الشيعة

Title on a repair on fol. 1 (1a, repeated on 1b)

• Kitāb Fiqh Imāmīyah

Title on spine label

• Dūreh-ye fiqh fārisī

Title on a label pasted on the doublure of the upper cover

• Jāmiʻ al-masāʼil fī fiqh al-Imāmīyah al-Shīʻah

OCLC

70151006

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