Details

Subject(s)

• Islamic law—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

Four volumes of a large compendium of Shiʻite law. Volume 2 is missing at least one leaf at the beginning.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Volume 3 erroneously foliated beginning on the front flyleaf. Record follows erroneous foliation.
• Title from colophon, volume 2, leaf 234b.
• Physical description, volumes 1-2: 31 lines per page; written in small naskh in black on glazed, laid European paper. Catchwords; overlining in black. Spaces left for rubrication. Mild staining and a few paper repairs. First leaf of volume 1 is a replacement.
• Physical description, volume 3: 31 lines per page; written in miniscule naskh in black on glazed, laid European paper. Rubrication and catchwords. Mild staining and a few paper repairs.
• Physical description, volume 4: 24 lines per page; written in medium naskh in black on glazed, laid European paper. Catchwords. Mild staining.
• Origin: Volumes 1-2 copied by one hand, likely early 19th century. Volume 3 dated 3 Dhū al-Qaʻdah 1225 H [30 November 1810], by Ibn Rajab ʻAlī Khāmī [?] Bābā-yi Samnānī (leaf 308b). Volume 4 dated 26 Rajab 1230 H [4 July 1815], by ʻAbd Allāh ibn ʻAlī ibn ʻAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad al-Maqābī [vocalization?] al-Awānī al-Majrānī [vocalization?] (leaf 288a).
• Incipit: الحمد لله الذي هدانا بواضح الدليل الى سبيل معادن العلم

Binding note

Volumes 1-2, full red leather with blind-stamped central mandorla, pendants, and fillets; yellow paper doublures. Volume 3, full red leather with blind-stamped central mandorla and pendants; spine and corners repaired. Volume 4, full red leather with blind-tooled fillets.

Language note

Arabic.

Contents

• Volumes 1-2: kitāb al-ṭahārah
• Volume 3: kitāb al-ṣalāh
• Volume 4: kitāb al-nikāḥ.

Provenance

Several owner's stamps and notes on leaf 2a of volume 3. Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.

Source acquisition

Gift; Robert Garrett (Class of 1897), 1942.

References

• Mach, R. Catalogue of Arabic manuscripts (Yahuda section), no. 1586
• Brockelmann, C. GAL, SII, 504 (4a: no. 2)

Other title(s)

• كتاب حدائق الاحكام في علم الحلال والحرام
• Ḥadāʼiq al-aḥkām fī ʻilm al-ḥalāl wa-al-ḥarām
• حدائق الاحكام في علم الحلال والحرام

Title given in colophon of volume 4

Kitāb Ḥadāʼiq al-aḥkām fī ʻilm al-ḥalāl wa-al-ḥarām

OCLC

853621791

Original language

• حدائق الناضرة في احكام العترة الطاهرة.
• كتاب الحدائق الناضرة في احكام العترة الطاهرة.
• كتاب حدائق الاحكام في علم الحلال والحرام
• حدائق الاحكام في علم الحلال والحرام
• Incipit: الحمد لله الذي هدانا بواضح الدليل الى سبيل معادن العلم

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