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Subject(s)

• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Related record(s)

• Mukhtaṣar fī al-uṣūl.
• [Zubdat al-uṣūl].
• al-Kitāb al-thālith min al-manhaj al-rābiʻ min al-Ḥabl al-matīn fī al-mawārīth.

Summary note

Collection of texts on Shiʻite law.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Collective title from leaf 1a by a later hand.
• Origin: Text 1 dated 12 Ṣafar 1092 H [3 March 1681] (leaf 7b); text 2 dated 30 Ramaḍān 1096 H [30 August 1685] (leaf 55a); text 3 dated 1095 H [1683 or 1684] (leaf 96a). All texts copied by the same scribe, Muḥammad ʻAlī ibn Mullā ʻAlī Shāh (leaves 55a, 96a). Text 2 copied in Mashhad al-Riḍawīyah (leaf 55a); remaining texts likely copied in the same place.

Binding note

Full brown leather with flap; blind-stamped central mandorla, pendants, and fillets; front doublure is marbled paper.

Language note

Arabic.

Contents

• 1. leaves 3b-7b: al-Kitāb al-thālith min al-manhaj al-rābiʻ min al-Ḥabl al-matīn fī al-mawārīth / Bahāʾ al-Dīn al-ʻĀmilī.
• 2. leaves 8b-55a: Mukhtaṣar fī al-uṣūl / Muḥaqqiq al-Ḥillī.
• 3. leaves 56b-96a: [Zubdat al-uṣūl] / Bahāʾ al-Dīn al-ʻĀmilī.

Provenance

On leaf 1a, owner's note by Aḥmad Najīb ibn Aḥmad Ṭāhir. Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.

Source acquisition

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

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

850420179

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