Item Summary

Commentary on Muʼayyad Billāh's work on Zaydī theology, Lubb al-asās. Text is on fol. 2b-248b; notes and extracts on fol. 1a-2a, 249.

Descriptive Information

Title
كتاب هداية الاكياس الى عرفان اسرار لب الاساس.
Transliterated Title
Kitāb Hidāyat al-akyās ilá ʻirfān asrār Lubb al-asās.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Third Series no. 640
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/1544bp51j
Publisher
[1697]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1697
Format
Manuscript
Extent
ii, 249, ii leaves : paper ; 206 x 151 (152 x 95) mm. bound to 214 x 170 mm.
Provenance
Numerous statements of ownership on fol. 2b, dated 1132 H. [1719 or 20], 1192 H. [1778 or 9], 1214 H. [1799 or 1800], 1241 H. [1825 or 6]. Most recent ownership statement by Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyá Zabārah (d. 1961) dated Rabīʻ al-Ākhir 1359 H. [May 1940].
Source Acquisition
Purchase; Worldwide Antiquarian, 2007/7/9 (2008-5).
References
Ziriklī, K. Aʻlām (1979), II, 126
Kaḥḥālah, ʻU. Muʻjam (1957), III, 141
Rights Statement
No Copyright - Contractual Restrictions
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from fol. 2a.
Ms. was possibly previously bound with Islamic Manuscripts, Third Series no. 639, Lubb al-asās, as suggested by the paper and the water stains. According to the owner's statement on fol. 2b: "Ṣāra hādhā al-mujallad fī yad Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyá Zabarah fī Rabīʻ al-Ākhir 1359," while a similar inscription on fol. 1a of Third Series no. 639 states: "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."
Physical description: 19-20 lines per page; written in naskhi script in black on beige European glazed, laid paper. Catchwords and extensive marginalia; original text in red, except on fol. 242-248 where it is overlined in black. Some damp staining, but text unaffected. Insert between fol. 91-92.
Origin: First half of text completed in Shaʻbān 1089 AH (September-October 1678); second half completed in Rabiʻ al-Awwal 1090 AH (April-May 1679). This copy completed by Muḥammad ibn Sharaf al-Dīn ibn Muḥammad ... al-Muṭahhar in Shawwāl 1108 AH (April-May 1697) (fol. 248b).
Incipit: بدا حفظه الله تعالى بالبسملة واردفها بالحمد له
Binding Note
Recent cloth binding.

Discovery Information

Subject
Muʼayyad Billāh, Muḥammad ibn Ismāʻīl 1634 or 1635-1686—Lubb al-Asās
Zaydīyah—Doctrines—Early works to 1800

Physical Characteristics

File Count
512

Institutional Information

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

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/c3804a78-c414-4a33-820c-7866ccd77449/manifest