Item Summary

Collection of Shi'ite texts.

Descriptive Information

Title
التحفة القوامية في فقه الامامية ... [الخ.]
Transliterated Title
al-Tuḥfah al-Qiwāmīyah fī fiqh al-Imāmīyah ... [etc.]
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, New Series no. 1040
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/g445cg77f
Publisher
[1843-1899?]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1843-1899
Format
Manuscript
Extent
170 leaves : paper ; 179 x 113 (129-144 x 61-70) mm bound to 179 x 115 mm
References
Mach, R. & Ormsby, E.L. Handlist of Arabic manuscripts (New Series), no. 1537.
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Contents
1. leaves [i]b-11b: [Treatise on fundamental Shiʻite beliefs].
2. leaves 12b-151b: al-Tuḥfah al-Qiwāmīyah fī fiqh al-Imāmīyah / Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad Mahdī al-Sayfī. Versification of al-Lumʻah al-Dimashqīyah of al-Shahīd al-Awwal.
3. leaves 154a-165b: Nuqilat min Miṣbāḥ al-Kafʻamī. Selections from Junnat al-amān al-wāqiyah wa-jannat al-īmān al-bāqiyah, a collection of prayers and devotions.
4. leaves 168b-169a: [Marriage formula].
Notes
Ms. composite codex.
Title from colophon of text 2 (fol. 151b).
Layout: 13-19 lines per page.
Description: Rubricated ; catchwords ; machine-made paper ; occasional staining.
Origin: [al-Tuḥfah al-Qiwāmīyah] Copy completed Shaʻbān 1259 H [September 1843], by Muḥammad ʻAlī ibn al-Ḥājj Mullā Abū [!] al-Qāsim al-Sumdānī [?] (leaf 151b). Text 1 likely written at a somewhat later date.
Binding Note
Limp brown leather with blind-tooled fillets.

Discovery Information

Subject
Shīʻah—Doctrines—Early works to 1800
Shīʿah—Prayers and devotions—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Manuscripts, Persian—New Jersey—Princeton
Blind tooled bindings

Physical Characteristics

File Count
189

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/b35b86e4-2023-45a0-9ab0-e9500da77252/manifest