Item Summary

Second volume of a copy of a treatise on Imāmī law, a commentary on al-Muḥaqqiq al-Ḥillī's Sharāʼiʻ al-Islām. This copy comprises the text from Kitāb al-Ḥajj to Kitāb al-iktifāʼ.

Descriptive Information

Title
المجلد الثاني من كتاب مدارك الاحكام في شرح شرائع الاسلام
Transliterated Title
al-Mujallad al-thānī min Kitāb Madārik al-aḥkām fī sharḥ Sharāʼiʻ al-Islām
Call Number
Oversize Islamic Manuscripts, New Series no. 562q
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/rb68xf451
Publisher
[Iran?, 1679]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1679
Format
Manuscript
Extent
132 leaves : paper ; 318 x 191 (220 x 120) mm. bound to 328 x 195 mm.
References
Mach, R. and E. Ormsby. Handlist (New Series), 609
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from colophon (fol. 132b).
Physical description: 25 lines per page. Written in nastaʻlīq in black ink with use of red for entries and to overline the commented text. The words to be added in red ink are mentioned on the outer edge of the margin. Chiefly quaternions ; catchword on the verso of each leaf. Lacuna after fol. 54. Fol. 55 is blank, except one line ; lower part of fol. 56 wanting.
Inscription in Arabic numerals on a label pasted on the upper cover: "31" (repeated in Western and Arabic numerals on fol. 1a).
Origin: According to colophon, copied by Muḥammad Salīm ibn Murtaḍá Qulī Afshār, who completed his work (taswīd) on Thursday 12 Jumādá al-Thānī 1090 [July 1679] (fol. 132b).
Incipit: بسم ... وبه نستعين الحمد لله حمدا كثيرا يليق بجلاله والصلوة على سيدنا محمد وآله كتاب الحج وهو يعتمد ثلثة اركان الاول فى المقدمات وهى اربع مقدمة الاولى الحج وان كان فى اللغة القصد
Explicit: وله السادسة اذا اكتفى ثلثة متفرقة ... كان الاظهر جوازه لانتفاء المانع والله الموفق قوله
Binding Note
Lacquered binding. Daffodils on the doublures.

Discovery Information

Subject
Muḥaqqiq al-Ḥillī, Jaʻfar ibn al-Ḥasan 1205 or 1206-1277—Sharāʼiʻ al-Islām
Islamic law—History—16th century—Sources
Shīʻah—History—16th century—Sources
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Lacquered bindings

Physical Characteristics

File Count
137

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

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