Item Summary

Treatise on Zaydi scholastic theology; followed by the first page of Risālat al-Sulṭān Sulaymān ibn Salīm ilá al-Muṭahhar ibn al-Imām Sharaf al-Dīn (Zaydi Imām, d. 1572) on fol. 24b.

Descriptive Information

Title
كتاب لب الاساس / لمولانا امير المؤمنين المؤيد بالله رب العالمين محمد بن امير المؤمنين المتوكل على الله رب العالمين.
Transliterated Title
Kitāb Lubb al-asās / li-mawlānā Amīr al-Muʼminīn al-Muʼayyad Billāh rabb al-ʻālamīn Muḥammad ibn Amīr al-Muʼminīn al-Mutawwakil ʻalá Allāh rabb al-ʻālamīn.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Third Series no. 639
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/8p58pd343
Publisher
[1697]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1697
Extent
ii, 24, ii leaves : paper ; 207 x 152 (153 x 88) mm. bound to 215 x 166 mm.
Provenance
Two owners' statements: one dated 1214 H. [1799 or 1800]; the second by Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyá Zabārah (d. 1961) dated Rabīʻ al-Awwal 1359 H. [April 1940] (fol. 1a).
Source Acquisition
Purchase; Worldwide Antiquarian, 2007/7/9 (2008-5).
References
Ḥusaynī, A. Muʼallafāt al-Zaydīyah, II, 399
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from fol. 24a.
Ms. was possibly previously bound with Islamic Manuscripts, Third Series no. 640, Hidāyat al-akyās ilá ʻirfān asrār Lubb al-asās, as suggested by the paper and the water stains. Additionally, according to the owner's statement on fol. 1a: "Ṣārat hādhihi al-nuskhah min Lubb al-asās wa-mā qablahu wa-mā baʻdahu fī yad ... Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyá Zabārah ... fī Rabīʻ al-Awwal 1359." A similar inscription on fol. 2b of Third Series no. 640 states: "Ṣāra hādhā al-mujallad fī yad Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyá Zabārah fī Rabīʻ al-Ākhir 1359."
Physical description: 19-20 lines per page; written in indifferent naskh script in black on beige glazed, laid European paper. Catchwords; a few marginal notes. Headings in larger script. Some damp staining in inner margin.
Origin: Copy completed on 10 Rajab 1108 AH (2 February 1697) (fol. 24a).
Incipit: الحمد لله الاول بلا ابتدا والاخر بلا انتهى الذي دل على ان لا اله غيره ... وبعد فهذا كتاب لطيف حجمه عظيم ان شا الله نفعه في علم الكلام اخذته من كتب العترة
Binding Note
Recent cloth binding.

Physical Characteristics

File Count
60

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
Yemeni Manuscript Digitization Initiative
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/dd552a79-0a5e-4a3a-a777-d558060c095d/manifest