Item Summary

Treatise on Shiʻite law, preceded by a fihrist on leaf 1a.

Descriptive Information

Title
الدروس الشرعية في فقه الامامية.
Transliterated Title
al-Durūs al-sharʻīyah fī fiqh al-Imāmīyah.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, New Series no. 587
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/9880vt59c
Publisher
[1534]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1534
Format
Manuscript
Extent
255 leaves : paper ; 240 x 167 (180 x 115) mm bound to 248 x 175 mm
Provenance
On second flyleaf, several owner's notes and stamps, one of which bears the date Dhū al-Ḥijjah 1113 H [1702]. On leaf 1b, owner's stamp dated 1106 H [1694 or 1695].
References
Mach, R. & Ormsby, E.L. Handlist of Arabic manuscripts (New Series), no. 159
Brockelmann, C. GAL, SII, 132 (no. 3)
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from leaf 1b, line 9.
Physical description: Varying lines per page; written in naskh and nastaʻliq in black on glazed, laid Arabic paper. Rubrication and catchwords. Numerous replacements of full or partial leaves. Mild staining and a few repairs.
Origin: Juzʼ 1 completed 2 Shawwāl 940 H [16 April 1534], by Nūr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ṣadr al-Dīn Muḥammad al-Harawī (leaf 199b).
Incipit: الحمد لله الذي انطق السنتنا بحمده
Binding Note
Full brown leather with blind-tooled fillets.

Discovery Information

Subject
Islamic law—Early works to 1800
Shīʻah—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton

Physical Characteristics

File Count
262

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/71833926-5aec-4f3a-ac5f-f5200abeacad/manifest