Item Summary

First volume of a commentary on al-Mufīd's Muqniʻah, comprising Kitāb al-ṭahārah through Kitāb al-jihād. Text begins on leaf 10b and is preceded by the following: notes and extracts, particularly from Ḥadīqat al-Shīʻah, on a variety of legal matters; a short Persian text on leaves 3b-4a entitled "Risālah fī anḥāʼ ṣiyagh ʻuqūd al-nikāḥ"; a chart on leaf 5b; and a short biography of al-Shaykh al-Mufīd in Persian on leaves 7a-7b. Text is followed by a detached leaf containing extracts.

Descriptive Information

Title
[Volume 1 of Tahdhīb al-aḥkām].
Call Number
Oversize Islamic Manuscripts, New Series no. 551q
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/r494vn77z
Publisher
[1659]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1659
Extent
343 leaves : paper ; 301 x 205 (217 x 131) mm bound to 305 x 212 mm
Provenance
On leaf 1a, several owner's stamps and a note dated 1188 H [1774 or 1775]. On leaf 10a, two owner's notes with stamps, one of which is dated 1216 H [1801 or 1802].
References
Mach, R. & Ormsby, E.L. Handlist of Arabic manuscripts (New Series), no. 1413
Brockelmann, C. GAL, I, 512 (no. 2); SI, 707
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Physical description: 27 lines per page; written in small naskh in black on glazed, laid Arabic paper. Some leaves are dyed yellow. Rubrication and catchwords; marginal notes. Occasional damp staining and a few repairs.
Origin: First half completed Jumādá II 1069 H [February-March 1659], by Muḥammad Murād ibn Mahdī al-Kashmīrī (leaf 181a).
Incipit: الحمد لله ولى الحمد و مستحقه
Binding Note
Full brown leather with blind-stamped fillets.

Physical Characteristics

File Count
350

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

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