Item Summary

Treatise on Shiʻite law.

Descriptive Information

Title
مفاتيح الشرائع.
Transliterated Title
Mafātīḥ al-sharāʼiʻ.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, New Series no. 593
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/sj1394561
Publisher
Dāmghān, [1697]
دامغان، [1697]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1697
Format
Manuscript
Extent
246 leaves : paper ; 234 x 179 (173 x 120) mm bound to 234 x 186 mm
Provenance
Owner's stamps and notes on leaves 1a, 1b; one note is dated 1 Jumādá II 1339 H [10 February 1921] by Muḥammad Bāqir al-Ḥusaynī Baḥr al-ʻUlūm.
References
Mach, R. & Ormsby, E.L. Handlist of Arabic manuscripts (New Series), no. 615
Brockelmann, C. GAL, SII, 584 (no. 3)
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from leaf 2b, line 20.
Physical description: 21 lines per page; written in neat naskh on glazed, laid Arabic paper. Rubrication and catchwords; marginal notes. Damp staining, mainly marginal; a few repairs.
Origin: Work completed 1042 H [1632 or 1633]; this copy, 16 Rabīʻ II 1109 H [1 November 1697] in Dāmghān, by Ibn Ḥājjī Muḥammad Riḍā Muḥammad Ṣādiq al-Dāmghānī (leaf 246b).
Incipit: الحمد لله الذي هدانا لدين الاسلام و سن لنا الشرايع والاحكام
Binding Note
Full brown leather with blind-stamped central mandorla and pendants and blind-tooled fillets; yellow paper doublures.

Discovery Information

Subject
Islamic law—Interpretation and construction—Early works to 1800
Shīʻah—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton

Physical Characteristics

File Count
250

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

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