Item Summary

Treatise on Shīʻī fiqh.

Descriptive Information

Title
ارشاد الاذهان الى احكام الايمان
Transliterated Title
Irshād al-adhhān ilá aḥkām al-īmān
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, New Series no. 318
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dz010s653
Publisher
[1460 or 1461]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1460
Format
Manuscript
Extent
214 leaves : paper ; 220 x 127 (146 x 75) mm. bound to 220 x 140 mm.
Provenance
Several onwership statements with seals on fol. 1a, 4a, 214a.
References
Mach, R. and E. Ormsby. Handlist (New Series), no. 350
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from beginning of text (fol. 4b, l. 14).
19 lines. Written in small naskh with elements of taʻlīq, in black ink with use of red. Dark cream paper with laid lines and pulp visible. Marginal annotations. Table of contents on fol. 1b. Several inscriptions and short texts in Arabic and Persian, including ownership statements on fol. 1a-4a, and 214a-b. Fol. 1-2 apparently later additions. Inscription in Arabic script on a spine label: "170 [next line] Irshād al-adhhān".
Copy completed in 865 H. (colophon, fol. 213b).
Incipit: الحمد لله المتفرد بالقدم وال[---] المتنزّه عن مشابهة الاعراض والاجسام ... امّا بعد فانّ الله تعالى كما اوجب على الولد طاعة ابويه كذلك اوجب عليهما الشفقة
Explicit: فلو سرت جناياته او قتل قبل الاندمال تدا خليت
Binding Note
Upper and lower covers, fore edge flap and envelope flap made brown leather over thick paper pasteboards. Both covers have a central blind stamped mandorla with two pendants on the vertical axis, and traces of an outer frame consisting of gold painted fillets. The envelope flap has a similar outer frame, with a smaller blind tooled stamp outlined in gold on its point. Brown leather doublure, with gold painted outlined mandorla with two pendants on the vertical axis (small motif on the point of the doublure of the envelope flap), and an outer frame consisting of painted fillets.

Discovery Information

Subject
Islamic law—Interpretation and construction—13th century
Islamic law—Interpretation and construction—14th century
Shīʻah—Doctrines—13th century
Shīʻah—Doctrines—14th century
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton

Physical Characteristics

File Count
230

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/6593f3ee-f68e-455d-a6b6-473de566f317/manifest