Item Summary

Collection of Arabic texts on a variety of subjects.

Descriptive Information

Title
[رسالة في بيان صيغ النكاح والطلاق] ... [الخ.]
Transliterated Title
[Risālah fī bayān ṣiyagh al-nikāḥ wa-al-ṭalāq] ... [etc.].
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, New Series no. 1076
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/f7623g18c
Publisher
[1884-1886]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1884-1886
Extent
78 leaves : paper ; 217 x 168 (137-180 x 72-111) mm bound to 217 x 171 mm.
References
Mach, R. & Ormsby, E.L. Handlist of Arabic manuscripts (New Series), no. 1379, 1061, 805, 385, 1602, 1116, 476, 927, 1069.
Brockelmann, C. GAL, II, 259 (no. 8); SII, 275.
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Contents
1. leaves 1b-14a: Hādhihi al-nuskhah al-sharīfah al-musammá bi-Ḥadīth al-qudsī alladhī awḥá Allāh taʻālá ilá Mūsá ibn ʻImrān. Forty ḥadīth qudsī, supposedly from the Tawrāh.
2. leaves 17b-30b: Risālah fī bayān ṣiyagh al-nikāḥ wa-al-ṭalāq / Jaʻfar al-Astarābādī. Treatise on marriage and divorce formulas.
3. leaves 32b-37a: [al-Muqaddimah al-Jazarīyah fī al-tajwīd] / Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Jazarī. Treatise on Qurʼān recitation.
4. leaves 40b-42b: Min kitāb al-mawsūm bi-Ithná ʻasharīyah fī al-furūq.
5. leaves 43a-46a: [Selections from Wuṣūl al-akhyār ilá uṣūl al-akhbār] / Ḥusayn ibn ʻAbd al-Ṣamad al-Ḥārithī.
6. leaves 46b-54a: Risālah fī maʻrifat mashāyikh al-Shīʻah.
7. leaf 54b: [Persian poem] / Bahāʼ al-Dīn al-ʻĀmilī.
8. leaves 56b-60b: Kashf al-awzān / Muḥammad Mahdī ibn Muḥammad Jaʻfar al-Musawī. Treatise on legal weights and measures.
9. leaves 60b-67b: [Sharḥ al-Rawḍah al-bahīyah] / Muḥammad Mahdī ibn Muḥammad Jaʻfar al-Musawī. Clarification of astronomical problems related to the determination of times of prayer.
10. leaf 68a: [Persian poem].
11. leaves 71b-76b: Masʼalat ḥalq al-liḥá / Muḥammad Āghā-yi Mujtahid.
Notes
Ms. composite codex.
Title from text 2.
Layout: 12-16 lines per page ; some sections written in two columns.
Description: Written in nastaʻlīq, sometimes with elements of shikastah, and in general scripts ; gold-sprinkled machine-made paper of different colors used (yellow, blue, pink) and unspeckled machine-made paper of violet, and blue ; vowel signs ; spaces left for rubrication in not all filled in.
Decoration: Illuminated headpiece (fol. 17b); text on leaves 17b-20a set in cloud-bands on gold ground and framed in red, gold, and yellow with marginal red border.
Origin: Text 6, 3 Shaʻbān 1364 H [14 July 1945] (leaf 54a): this appears to be an error. Texts 8-9, 1302 H [1884 or 1885], by the author (leaves 60b, 67b). Text 11, 1303 H [1885 or 1886] (leaf 76b). Remaining texts likely completed around the same time.
Incipit: [حديث القدسي] عجبت لمن ايقن بالموت -- [المقدمة الجزرية] يقول راجي عفو ربه سامعي * محمد بن الجزري الشافعي -- [من كتاب الموسوم باثنى] من کتاب الموسوم باثنى عشرية في الفروق الفرق بين الرياء و العجب -- [رسالة في معرفة] اما بعد فهذه رسالة في معرفة مشايخ الشيعة ... منهم الشيخ علي بن ابراهيم بن هاشم صاحب الامام الحسن العسکري -- [كشف الاوزان] الحمد لله عدد للثاقيل والاوزان -- [شرح الروضة] الحمد لله الذي عرّفنا الاوقات الشريفة و جعلها اوقات العبادة -- [مسألة حلق اللهى] اعلم ان مسئلة حلق اللحى مما يعمّ به البلوى
Binding Note
Limp brown leather with blind-tooled fillets.

Physical Characteristics

File Count
83

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/5abd32ad-bf2b-48fa-8e55-9a2a3b05df9f/manifest