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]

Rare books genre

• Blind tooled bindings [Browse]
• Stamps [Browse]
• Colored papers [Browse]

Contains

• Bahbahānī, Muḥammad Bāqir ibn Muḥammad Akmal, 1706 or 1707-1791 or 1792. Fawāʼid ʻatīq. [Browse]
• بهبهاني، محمد باقر بن محمد اكمل، 1706 or 1707-1791 or 1792. فوائد عتيق. [Browse]
• ʻĀmilī, Bahāʼ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn, 1547-1621. Zubdat al-uṣūl. [Browse]
• عاملي، بهاء الدين محمد بن حسين، 1547-1621. زبدة الاصول. [Browse]

Summary note

Two texts on Shiʻite law.

Notes

• Ms. composite codex.
• Incipit: [فوائد عتيق] الفائدة الاولى في عظم خطر الفقه -- [كتاب زبدة] ان ابهى اصل ىبتني علىه الخطاب واولى قول فصل ينتمي اليه اولو الالباب
• Title from leaf 1b.
• Physical description: Text 1, 17 lines per page; written in black on glazed, laid European paper; rubrication and catchwords. Text 2, 15 lines per page; written in naskh in black on blue glazed, laid European paper; rubrication and catchwords. Mild staining; edges moldered.
• Origin: Text 1, 17 Rabīʻ II 1240 H [9 December 1824] in Iṣfahān, by Qurbān ʻAlī ibn Ḥājjī Muḥammad Rafīʻ al-... [?] (leaf 88b). Text 2, 4 Rabīʻ I 1240 H [27 October 1824], by Muḥammad Ḥasan (leaf 113b); likely in Iran.

Binding note

Limp black leather with blind-stamped fillets.

Language note

Arabic.

Contents

• 1. fol. 1b-88b: Fawāʼid ʻatīq / Muḥammad Bāqir ibn Muḥammad Akmal al-Bahbahānī. Treatise on Shiʻite uṣūl al-fiqh comprising 36 fawāʼid.
• 2. fol. 89b-113b: Kitāb Zubdat Shaykh Bahāʼī fī al-uṣūl / Bahāʼ al-Dīn al-ʻĀmilī. Treatise on uṣūl al-fiqh.

Provenance

Owners' stamps on leaves 89b, 113b. Owner's note on leaf 1a.

References

• Mach, R. & Ormsby, E.L. Handlist of Arabic manuscripts (New Series), 212, 1613.
• Brockelmann, C. GAL, SII, 504 (5: no. 5); SII, 597 (no. 17).

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

Place name(s)

Iran Iṣfahān

Other title(s)

• Kitāb Zubdat Shaykh Bahāʼī fī al-uṣūl.
• كتاب زبدة شيخ بهائي في الاصول.
• Fawāʼid al-Ḥāʼirīyah al-ʻatīqah.
• فوائد الحائرية العتيقة.

OCLC

698182718

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