Item Summary

Three first parts (juzʼ) of an Imāmī treatise on theological questions, often in relation with a Qur'anic verse. Apparently some leaves missing at the beginning of the copy. Incomplete at end.

Descriptive Information

Title
كتاب العزيز السيد المرتضى
Transliterated Title
Kitāb al-ʻAzīz al-Sayyid al-Murtaḍá.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 577Y
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/f1881p521
Publisher
[before 1323]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1300-1323
Format
Manuscript
Extent
247 leaves: paper ; 248 x 176 (180 x 125) mm. bound to 250 x 180 mm.
Provenance
Obliterated ownership statement dated Dhū al-Qaʻdah 11--? on fol. 1a (later repair), with obliterated seal. Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Mach, R. Yahuda, 514
Brockelmann, C. GAL, I, 404 (1/1) ; SI, 704 (1a/1)
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from ijāzah on fol. 1a.
Physical description: 23 lines per page. Written in clear medium large naskh in black ink with use of red for headings. Dark cream paper with laid and chain lines visible ; frame-ruled. The upper part of fol. 1 is a later repair. Chiefly quinions. Modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals (blank between fol. 40 and 41). Loose leaves.
Collation: Paper, fol. 247 ; 1¹⁰ (-3 in the first half of the quire) 2-25¹⁰. Catchword on the verso of the first four leaves and the last leaf of each quire from fol. 7 on ; the quires are numbered using Arabic ordinals in the form "Tāsiʻ al-Ghurar" (see fol. 77a ; often cut off due to the trimming of the pages).
On fol. 1a: Ijāzah with chain of transmission for Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Zayn al-Dīn Jaʻfar ibn Ḥusayn al-Anbārī from Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad ibn Jaʻfar ibn al-Ṭarrāḥ, dated Rabīʻ al-Awwal 723 (or 713?) [1323 or 1313], followed by another inscription.
Incipit: مجلس اول تاويل اية قال الله جل من قايل واذا اردنا ان نهلك قرية امرنا مترفيها ففسقوا فيها فحق عليها القول فدمرناها تدميرا فى هذه الاية وجوه من التاويل
End as extant: عليه ما تقدم وذلك واضح بين بعون الله تعالى والله الموفق للصواب مجلس اخر تاويل خبر اخر كل مولود
Binding Note
Dark brown leather with central scalloped mandorla for upper and lower covers. Rebacked. Badly damaged ; disbound.

Discovery Information

Subject
Shīʻah—Doctrines—History—10th century—Sources
Shīʻah—Doctrines—History—11th century—Sources
Qurʼan—Commentaries—History—10th century—Sources
Qurʼan—Commentaries—History—11th century—Sources
Muslim scholars—Certification—History—14th century—Sources
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton

Physical Characteristics

File Count
251

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/f0d4e764-ad50-4011-a55d-a3dca0cfd237/manifest