Item Summary

Collection of Arabic and Persian texts on a variety of topics.

Descriptive Information

Title
[الزبر و البينات] ... [الخ.]
Transliterated Title
[al-Zubur va al-bayyināt] ... [etc.].
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, New Series no. 524
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/cf95jf073
Publisher
[1606-1777]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1606-1777
Format
Manuscript
Extent
263 leaves : paper ; 182 x 130 (110-150 x 66-86) mm. bound to 185 x 133 mm.
References
Mach, R. & Ormsby, E.L. Handlist of Arabic manuscripts (New Series), no. 21, 283, 60, 1269, 1402, 226, 850, 1202.
Brockelmann, C. GAL, II, 212 (no. 41); SII, 208 (no. 32); SII, 585 (no. 12); SII, 573 (no. 9).
Ḥusaynī, A. Dalīl al-makhṭūṭāt (1976 or 1977-), III, 119.
Fihrist-i nuskhahʹhā-yi khaṭṭī-i Kitābkhānah-ʼi ʻUmūmī-i Ḥaz̤rat-i Āyat Allāh al-ʻUẓmá Najafī Marʻashī (1975-), XI, 16.
Fihrist-i Kitābkhānah-i Dānishgāh-i Tihrān (1951-), III, 132-133.
Āghā Buzurg. Dharīʻah (1936-), XXIII, 318-319 (no. 9144).
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Contents
1. leaves 1a-2a: [Notes].
2. leaves 2b-4a: [al-Zubur va al-bayyināt] / Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥīm al-Damāvandī. On the symbolic aspects of letters and their application to the names of the prophets and the imams; incomplete at end.
3. leaves 4b-5a: [Notes].
4. leaves 5b-13a: [Formulary of documents and letters].
5. leaves 13a-15a: [Extracts and notes].
6. leaves 15b-21a: [Ajwibat masāʼil Muhannā ibn Sinān] / Ibn al-Muṭahhar al-Ḥillī. 32 unnumbered questions and answers concerning Shiʻite law.
7. leaves 21b-26b: Ḥall laṭīf li-ʻibārah muʻḍilah fī Qawāʼid al-aḥkām / Bahāʼ al-Dīn al-ʻĀmilī. Commentary on a passage in Qawāʻid al-aḥkām, a work on fiqh by Ibn al-Muṭahhar al-Ḥillī.
8. leaves 26b-27a: [Notes].
9. leaves 27b-28b: Risālah dar bayān-i awzān-i sharʻīyah. Anonymous treatise on weights and measures.
10. leaves 29a: [Notes].
11. leaves 29b-32b: Risālah-i Mawlānā Rajab ʻAlī / Rajabʻalī Tabrīzī. Copy of Is̲bāt-i vājib. Proof of the existence of God.
12. leaves 33a-34b: [Extracts and notes].
13. leaves 35b-54a: [Arbaʻūn ḥadīth fī manāqib ahl al-bayt] / Aḥmad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Ardabīlī. Forty ḥadīth on the virtues and character of the Ahl al-Bayt. The compiler heard these traditions from Abū al-Khaṭṭāb ibn Diḥyah al-Kalbī in 610 H.
14. leaves 54b-57b: [Commentary on Sūrat al-Fātiḥah].
15. leaves 58a-66a: [Model marriage contracts, poetry, recipes, faʼidahs, extracts].
16. leaves 66b-71a: [al-Uṣūl al-ʻasharah] / Nazhmiddin Kubro.
17. leaves 71b-74a: [Poetry and other extracts].
18. leaves 74b-88b: [Tafsīr gharīb al-Qurʼān]. Treatise on difficult passages in the Qurʼān; incomplete and with lacunae.
19. leaves 89a-93a: [Extracts, fāʼidahs, poetry].
20. leaves 93b-97a: Fihrist al-mashyakhah ʻalá tartīb al-ḥurūf.
21. leaves 97b-98a: [Notes].
22. leaves 98b-121b: [S̲amarah-ʼi shajarah-ʼi ilāhīyah] / Muḥammad ibn Ḥaydar Rafīʻā. Proof of the existence of God.
23. leaves 122a-123a: [Notes and extracts].
24. leaves 123b-245a: Nukhbah wajīzah fī al-ḥikmah al-ʻamalīyah wa-al-aḥkām al-sharʻīyah / al-Fayḍ al-Kāshī.
25. leaves 245b-249a: [Extracts].
26. leaves 249b-261b: [Mīzān al-maqādīr] / Muḥammad Bāqir ibn Muḥammad Taqī al-Majlisī. Treatise on weights and measures, based on Rawḍat al-muttaqīn by Ibn Malak.
27. leaves 262b-263b: [Fāʼidah and notes].
Notes
Ms. composite codex.
Title from text 2.
Marginal notes. Leaves 258-263 detached.
Collation: Paper ; fol. 263 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 12-17 lines per page.
Description: Written in nastaʻliq ; rubricated.
Origin: [al-Zubur va al-bayyināt] Likely completed around 1187 H [1773] (see leaf 21a) in Qum (see leaf 28b) -- [Ajwibat masāʼil] Copied 27 Ṣafar 1187 H [20 May 1773] (leaf 21a), likely in Qum (see leaf 28b) -- [Ḥall laṭīf] Likely completed sometime between preceding and following texts [1773-1776], likely in Qum (see leaf 28b) -- [Risālah dar bayān-i] [1]190 H [1776 or 1777] in Qum, by Mullā Muḥammad Ṭāhir (leaf 28b) -- [Arbaʻūn ḥadīth] Copied 4 Ramaḍān 1014 H [13 January 1606], by Fāḍil ibn ʻAbd Allāh (leaf 54a) -- [S̲amarah-ʼi] Copied Dhū al-Ḥijjah 1078 H [May-June 1668] (leaf 121b) -- [Nukhbah wajīzah] Copied Ṣafar 1074 H [September 1663], by the author's son Muḥammad ʻAlam al-Hudá (leaf 245a).
Incipit: [الزبر و البينات] نحمدک يا معين و نصلى على نبيک محمد و آله الطيبين و بعد مستسقى رحيق تحقيق و ايقان و خادم ارباب علم و عرفان -- [اجوبة مسائل] فى الخضر التي تسقى بالماء النجس دائما هل يکون اکلها حراما او مکروها -- [حل لطيف] حمدا لك يا معين وصلوة على نبيك وآله اجمعين يقول ... هذا حل لطيف لعبارة معضلة في قوائد الاحكام -- [رساله در بيان] الحمد لله ... اما بعد اين رساله ايست در بيان اوزان شرعية بدانکه علماء رحمهم الله اوزان شرعيه را مثل مثقال و درهم و غير آنرا -- [رساله مولانا رجبعلى] الحمد لله ... اما بعد دانكه اين نوشته مشتمل است بر مقدمه و پنج مطلب و خاتمه مقدمه در بيان معنى وجود ومعنى اشتراك لفظى و معنوى -- [اربعون حديثا] کنت سمعت على کثير عن مشايخ الحديث -- [الاصول العشرة] والاعتصام يكرمه العميم قال الشيخ ... الطرق الى الله بعدد انفاس الخلايق -- [تفسير غريب القرآن] سورة الفاتحة الکتاب الحمد الشکر العالمين الخلق ملك معناه -- [فهرست المشيخة] باب الالف ابان بن تغلب ابان بن عثمان -- [ثمرۀ] الحمد لله المتوحد بالالهية لجميع ما سواه المتفرد بالربوبية لقاطبة ما عداه -- [نخبة وجيزة] الحمد لله الذي اوضح بائمة الهدى من اهل بيت النبوة -- [ميزان المقادير] الحمد لله الذي ارتفع عن مطارح الافهام
Binding Note
Full maroon leather with flap on front cover; blind-stamped fillets; yellow paper doublures; back cover missing.

Discovery Information

Subject
Arabic alphabet—Symbolic aspects—Early works to 1800
God (Islam)—Early works to 1800
Hadith (Shiites)—Texts—Early works to 1800
Islamic law—Early works to 1800
Islamic philosophy—Early works to 1800
Muslim scholars—Early works to 1800
Qurʼan—Commentaries—Early works to 1800
Shīʻah—Early works to 1800
Sufism—Early works to 1800
Weights and measures (Islamic law)—Early works to 1800
Ibn al-Muṭahhar al-Ḥillī, al-Ḥasan ibn Yūsuf 1250-1325—Qawāʻid al-aḥkām fī maʻrifat al-ḥalāl wa-al-ḥarām
Qurʼan Sūrat al-Fātiḥah—Commentaries—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Manuscripts, Persian—New Jersey—Princeton
Blind tooled bindings

Physical Characteristics

File Count
278

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/8b90e98b-f1c7-4700-bc27-f47e3f06591e/manifest