Descriptive Information

Title

بيان شهيد.

Transliterated Title

Bayān-i Shahīd.

Call Number

Islamic Manuscripts, New Series no. 762

Identifier

http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/h415pd165

Publisher

[1565]

Language

Arabic

Date Created

1565

Format

Manuscript

Extent

95, i leaves : paper ; 203 x 150 (135 x 110) mm. bound to 203 x 155 mm.

Provenance

Impression of an oval seal (200 mm.) on fol. 2b.

References

Mach, R. and E. Ormsby. Handlist (New Series), 120

Rights Statement

No Known Copyright

Notes

Ms. codex.

Title from spine label.

Physical description: 21 lines per page. Written in medium small naskh with elements of nastaʻlīq, in black ink. Yāʼ for alif maqṣūrah ; final yāʼ dotted. European paper. The beginning of the text is apparently a later replacement (fol. 2). Fol. 1 in the modern foliation is a fly-leaf with name of the author on the recto. Fol. 95 detached.

Origin: According to colophon, copied for al-Shaykh Nājī ibn al-Shaykh Hamzah [Nājī ibn Hamzah], his brother in God, Rabīʻ al-Ākhar 973 [2 crossed out] [1565] (fol. 95a).

Incipit: بسم ... وبه الاستعانة والتوكل الحمد لله رب العالمين حمدا يستدر اخلاف كرمه ... اما بعد فان الادلة العقلية والنقلية متطابقة على شرف العلوم ومن اهمها معرفة الحي القيوم

Explicit: الفصل الثالث في الامساك وفيه مطالب الاول فيما يسك عنه وهو اقسام الاول الابتلاع يجب ه الى هنا انتهى فنهى كلام المص

Binding Note

Bound in leather (camel color). Both covers are similarly blind tooled with a border consisting of a running pattern of impressions of a s-shape stamp outlined by two fillets on each side. The central area defined by the border has two fillets crossing in the middle, thus forming a "x". Paper pastedown and free endpaper.

Discovery Information

Subject

Islamic law—Interpretation and construction—History—14th century—Sources

Shīʻah—Early works to 1800

Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton

Physical Characteristics

File Count

99

Institutional Information

Collection

Manuscripts of the Islamic World

IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/e6c41017-da77-47f6-a45f-009df35d8dea/manifest

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