Item Summary

First half of a treatise on Shiʻite law.

Descriptive Information

Title
جلد اول مفاتيح.
Transliterated Title
Jild awwal Mafātīḥ.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, New Series no. 606
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/qz20sw11b
Publisher
[1776]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1776
Format
Manuscript
Extent
126 leaves : paper ; 212 x 155 (150 x 103) mm bound to 212 x 159 mm
Provenance
On leaf 2a, two smudged owner's stamps and two notes, dated 12 Muḥarram 1255 H [28 March 1839], and Jumādá II 1339 H [February-March 1921] by Muḥammad Bāqir al-Ḥusaynī Baḥr al-ʻUlūm.
References
Mach, R. & Ormsby, E.L. Handlist of Arabic manuscripts (New Series), no. 615
Brockelmann, C. GAL, SII, 584 (no. 3)
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from leaf 2b.
Manuscript erroneously foliated beginning on front flyleaf. Record follows erroneous foliation.
Physical description: 20 lines per page; written in shikastah on glazed, laid European paper. Rubrication and catchwords; marginal and interlinear notes. Mild staining.
Origin: 12 Rabīʻ II, 1180 H [17 September 1776] (leaf 127a).
Incipit: الحمد لله الذي هدانا لدين الاسلام و سن لنا الشرايع والاحكام
Binding Note
Limp dark brown leather.

Discovery Information

Subject
Islam—Rituals—Early works to 1800
Islamic law—Interpretation and construction—Early works to 1800
Shīʻah—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton

Physical Characteristics

File Count
145

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/1bb792be-a83d-4a2b-b90d-0d0b290d3374/manifest