Item Summary

Treatise on Islamic law preceded by a commentary on the preface; with extracts, mainly from legal texts, on the three front flyleaves and leaves 4a, 5b-9a, 252a-253b.

Descriptive Information

Title
شرح خطبة القواعد / تصنيف الامام فخر الدنيا. كتاب قواعد الاحكام في معرفة الحلال والحرام.
Transliterated Title
Sharḥ khuṭbat al-Qawāʻid / taṣnīf al-Imām Fakhr al-Dunyā. Kitāb Qawāʻid al-aḥkām fī maʻrifat al-ḥalāl wa-al-ḥarām.
Call Number
Oversize Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 3613Yq
Identifier
ark:/88435/hd76s2679
Publisher
[1449 or 1450]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1449-1450
Format
Manuscript
Extent
250 leaves : paper ; 279 x 189 (169-212 x 125-158) mm bound to 280 x 195 mm
Provenance
On leaf 9a are a number of seals, some of them round and measuring 260-280 mm in diameter. Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
Source Acquisition
Gift; Robert Garrett (Class of 1897), 1942.
References
Mach, R. Catalogue of Arabic Manuscripts (Yahuda Section), 1563, 1564
Brockelmann, C. GAL, SII, 209 (2: no. 3)
Brockelmann, C. GAL, II, 211 (no. 4); S II, 207.
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Contents
1. leaves 4b-5b: Sharḥ khuṭbat al-Qawāʻid / Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan Fakhr al-Muḥaqqiqīn. Commentary on the preface of his fatherʾs Qawāʻid al-aḥkām; the work is known as Jamiʻ al-fawāʾid fī sharḥ khuṭbat al-Qawāʻid.
2. leaves 9b-251b: Kitāb Qawāʻid al-aḥkām fī maʻrifat al-ḥalāl wa-al-ḥarām / al-Ḥasan ibn Yūsuf Ibn al-Muṭahhar al-Ḥillī. Well-known treatise on Shiʻite law.
Notes
Ms. codex.
Collective title from titles of individual texts, leaves 4b, 9b.
Title on spine label: Qawāʻid al-aḥkām ʻAllāmah.
Manuscript erroneously foliated beginning on first flyleaf. Record follows erroneous foliation.
Physical description: Varying lines per page; written in indifferent naskh in black by different hands on cream glazed, laid Arabic paper. Rubrication and catchwords; extensive marginal notes. Some damp staining, mainly marginal; numerous leaves detached.
Origin: 853 H [1449 or 1450] (leaf 251b).
Incipit (text 1): الحمد لله ... اما بعد فقد سألنى اجل الاخوان وافضل الاخوان ان املى علىه شرح خطبة القواعد تصنيف والدي
Incipit (text 2): الحمد لله على سوابغ النعماء وترادف الالا المتفضل بارسال الانبيا ... اما بعد فهذا كتاب قواعد الاحكام فى معرفة الحلال والحرام لخصت فيه لب الفتاوى خاصه بينت فيه قواعد احكام الخصة
Explicit (text 2): والخلل والنقصان والخطأ والنسيان فهذه وصيتى اليك والله خليفتى عليك والسلام عليك ورحمة الله وبركاته
Binding Note
Full brown leather; blind-stamped central mandorla and pendants covered with green paper.

Discovery Information

Subject
Ibn al-Muṭahhar al-Ḥillī, al-Ḥasan ibn Yūsuf 1250-1325—Qawāʻid al-aḥkām fī maʻrifat al-ḥalāl wa-al-ḥarām
ابن المطهر الحلي، الحسن بن يوسف، 1250-1325—قواعد الاحكام في معرفة الحلال والحرام
Islamic law—Interpretation and construction—Early works to 1800
Shīʻah—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton

Physical Characteristics

File Count
280

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

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