Item Summary

First part of a commentary on al-Shahīd al-Awwal's treatise on Shiʻite law, up to Kitāb al-ijārah.

Descriptive Information

Title
الجزء الاول من الروضة البهية في شرح اللمعة الشهيدية الدمشقية.
Transliterated Title
al-Juzʼ al-awwal min al-Rawḍah al-bahīyah fī sharḥ al-Lumʻah al-Shahīdiyah al-Dimashqīyah.
Call Number
Oversize Islamic Manuscripts, New Series no. 553q
Identifier
ark:/88435/n583xx603
Publisher
[1701]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1701
Format
Manuscript
Extent
226 leaves : paper ; 310 x 172 (218 x 96) mm bound to 315 x 179 mm
Provenance
On leaf 2a are two owner's stamps and a note.
References
Mach, R. & Ormsby, E.L. Handlist of Arabic manuscripts (New Series), no. 924
Brockelmann, C. GAL, II, 131 (no. 1, commentary a); SII, 131
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from colophon, leaf 227b.
Manuscript erroneously foliated beginning on the front flyleaf. Record follows erroneous foliation.
Physical description: 26 lines per page; written in small nastaʻliq in black on glazed, laid Arabic paper. Headings in red; text of the Lumʻah overlined in red. Rubrication ends on leaf 210b. Catchwords and marginal notes. Some staining and paper repairs; some loss of text on leaves 219-227.
Origin: Rabīʻ II 1113 H [September 1701], by Ibn Muḥammad Kāẓim Ṭihrānī (leaf 227b).
Incipit: الحمد لله الذي شرح صدورنا بلمعة من شرايع الاسلام كافية في بيان الخطاب ونور قلوبنا من لوامع دروس الاحكام
Binding Note
Full brown leather with blind-tooled fillets.

Discovery Information

Subject
Shahīd al-Awwal, Muḥammad ibn Makkī 1333 or 1334-1384—Lumʻah al-Dimashqīyah
شهيد الاول، محمد بن مكي، 1333 or 1334-1380—لمعة الدمشقية
Islamic law—Early works to 1800
Shīʻah—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton

Physical Characteristics

File Count
234

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/f2f4dead-4a47-4212-a024-3011ca11f0bb/manifest