Item Summary

Collection of two texts on Shiʻite law.

Descriptive Information

Title
نزهة الناظر في الجمع بين الاشياء والنظائر. كتاب الانتصار / من تصنيفات الشريف المرتضى.
Transliterated Title
Nuzhat al-nāẓir fī al-jamʻ bayna al-ashyāʼ wa-al-naẓāʼir. Kitāb al-Intiṣār / min taṣnīfāt al-Sharīf al-Murtaḍá.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, New Series no. 1279
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/1r66j373n
Publisher
[1564-1577]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1564-1577
Extent
269 leaves : paper ; 180 x 120 (120-132 x 73-79) mm bound to 183 x 125 mm
Provenance
Owner's stamp and partially effaced note on leaf 77a, as well as two birth notices from the 19th century. Owners' notes and a stamp on leaf 79a, two of which bear the dates 1127 H and 1150 H.
References
Mach, R. & Ormsby, E.L. Handlist of Arabic manuscripts (New Series), no. 858, 510.
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Contents
1. fol. 2a-77a: Nuzhat al-nāẓir fī al-jamʻ bayna al-ashyāʼ wa-al-naẓāʼir / Yaḥyá ibn Saʻīd al-Ḥillī. Treatise on Shiʻite law; this copy contains 73 fuṣūl.
2. fol. 79b-266a: Kitāb al-Intiṣār / al-Sharīf al-Murtaḍá. On the differences between the Shīʻah and the other schools of law.
Notes
Ms. composite codex.
Title from both texts.
Collation: Paper ; fol. 269 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 14-19 lines per page
Description: Headings in green and red ; written in general script with elements of nastaʻliq ; hand changes on leaf 238a ; leaves 80-83 are replacements ; some damp-staining and a few repairs, particularly at the beginning and end of each text.
Origin: Text 1, 16 Rabīʻ I 985 H [3 June 1577] (leaf 77a). Text 2, 22 Rabīʻ I 972 H [28 October 1564] (leaf 266a).
Incipit: [نزهة الناظر] الحمد لله ... اني قد صنفت لك هذا الکتاب و جمعت فيه بين الحکمة و نظره وسمىته نزهة الناظر -- [كتاب الانتصار] الحمد لله على ما يسر من حق متبع وصرف من باطل مبتدع
Binding Note
Three-quarter red leather with black leather covers; blind-stamped central mandorla and fillets.

Physical Characteristics

File Count
277

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/3fbb2900-9c29-44fd-aed7-982ed55b55fb/manifest