Descriptive Information

Title

[الجزء الاول من كتاب النهاية في الفقه / تأليف الشيخ السعيد ابي جعفر محمد علي بن الحسن الطوسي].

Transliterated Title

[al-Juzʼ al-awwal min Kitāb al-Nihāyah fī al-fiqh / taʼlīf al-Shaykh al-saʻīd Abī Jaʻfar Muḥammad ʻAlī ibn al-Ḥasan al-Ṭūsī].

Call Number

Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 10G

Identifier

ark:/88435/dcj6731g32q

Publisher

[1246]

Language

Arabic

Date Created

1246

Format

Manuscript

Extent

229 leaves : paper ; 238 x 173 (190 x 130) mm bound to 238 x 173 mm

Provenance

Several owner's notes on leaf 1a, one of which is dated 30 Rabīʻ I 1099 H [3 February 1688]. Owner's note on inner back cover dated 1272 H [1855 or 1856]. Acquired by Robert Garrett from Messayeh, New York, 1928.

Source Acquisition

Gift; Robert Garrett (Class of 1897), 1942.

References

Hitti, P.K. et al. Descriptive catalog of the Garrett collection, no. 1779

Brockelmann, C. GAL, I, 513 (no. 11); SI, 707

Rights Statement

Copyright Not Evaluated

Notes

Ms. codex.

Title from leaf 1a by a later hand.

Physical description: 21 lines per page; written in naskh in brown and black on heavy, tan, glazed, laid Arabic paper. Vocalized. Numerous paper repairs, occasionally resulting in some loss of text; extensive damp staining and some mildewing, but text still legible.

Origin: 26 Rabīʻ I 644 H [11 August 1246], by Ḥusayn ibn Muḥammad ibn Jaʻfar al-Baghdādī (leaf 229a).

Incipit: الحمد لله مست[حق الحمد] وموجبه

Binding Note

Full black leather with blind-stamped central mandorla.

Discovery Information

Subject

Islamic law—Early works to 1800

Shīʻah—Early works to 1800

Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton

Physical Characteristics

File Count

466

Institutional Information

Collection

Manuscripts of the Islamic World

IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/66935cbf-0a26-4883-83a1-990fca436276/manifest

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