Item Summary

Treatise on Imāmī fiqh translated into Persian (see fol. 1b, l. 7), comprising 18 parts, from Kitāb al-ṭahārah to Kitāb al-qiṣaṣ.

Descriptive Information

Title
كتاب جامع المسائل فقه الامامية
Transliterated Title
Kitāb Jāmiʻ al-masāʼil fiqh al-Imāmīyah.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 2858Y
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/v692t627j
Publisher
[1569 or 1570]
Language
Persian
Date Created
1569
Format
Manuscript
Extent
162 leaves : paper ; 235 x 170 (163 x 112) mm. bound to 238 x 176 mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from colophon (fol. 161b).
23 lines per page. Written in black ink with use of red. Glazed dark cream paper with laid lines visible. Some leaves apparently wanting between fol. 8 and 9. Some leaves are mended (see fol. 1 and 2). Marginal notes. Inscriptions on fol. 1a. Seals on fol. 1a and 161b.
Copied in 977 (colophon, fol. 161[bis]b).
Incipit: الحمد لله العليّ الذّي اجتبى جيبة المجتبي واصطفى صفيه المصطفى ... وبعد پوشيده نماند كه بنابر اشارت واجب الطاعة
Explicit: واكر قاتل ان متعدد باشند لازم شود بر هر يک کفاره کامل
Binding Note
Upper and lower covers made of brown leather over paper pasteboard. Leather doublure. The spine and the edges of the covers have been repaired.

Discovery Information

Subject
Islamic law—Early works to 1800
Shīʻah—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Persian—New Jersey—Princeton

Physical Characteristics

File Count
328

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/80678444-3e01-4a91-a34d-ac13fb7f2bd1/manifest