Details

Subject(s)

• Islamic law—Interpretation and construction—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Shīʻah—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• manuscripts (documents) [Browse]

Summary note

Second half of a treatise on Shiʻite law, with a table of contents on leaves 318a-318b.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from leaf 326a.
• Manuscript erroneously foliated in Western script beginning on the first of eight flyleaves. Record follows erroneous foliation.
• Physical description: 15 lines per page; written in large, casual naskh in black on glazed, laid European paper. Rubrication and catchwords; marginal notes. Foliated in Arabic script, with errors. Mild staining and a few paper repairs.
• Origin: 4 Rajab 1127 H [6 July 1715], by Ibn ʻAlī Akbar Mullā Ḥubb ʻAlī (leaf 326a).
• Incipit: فن العادات والمعاملات من كتاب مفاتيح الشرايع وفيه كتب مفاتيح المطاعم والمشارب مفاتيح المناكح والمواليد

Binding note

Full brown leather with blind-stamped central mandorla and pendants; front cover lacking.

Language note

Arabic.

Provenance

On leaf 326a, stamp of scribe next to colophon, and owner's stamp and note of ... ibn Muḥammad.

References

• Mach, R. & Ormsby, E.L. Handlist of Arabic manuscripts (New Series), no. 615
• Brockelmann, C. GAL, SII, 584 (no. 3)

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

Other title(s)

• Mafātīḥ
• مفاتيح

OCLC

854858272

Original language

• مفاتيح الشرائع.
• كتاب المفاتيح.
• مفاتيح
• Incipit: فن العادات والمعاملات من كتاب مفاتيح الشرايع وفيه كتب مفاتيح المطاعم والمشارب مفاتيح المناكح والمواليد

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