Item Summary

Collection of texts on Shiʻite law and Qurʼān readings.

Descriptive Information

Title
[بدائع الافكار] ... [الخ.].
Transliterated Title
[Badāʼiʻ al-afkār] ... [etc.].
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, New Series no. 601
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/k0698b106
Publisher
[1852-1878]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1852-1878
Format
Manuscript
Extent
216 leaves : paper ; 217 x 175 (166-176 x 91-132) mm bound to 223 x 177 mm.
Provenance
On leaf 1a, two notes, one of which is accompanied by a stamp, dated 1321 [1903 or 1904]. Manuscript erroneously foliated beginning on front flyleaves. Record follows erroneous foliation.
On leaf 1a, two notes, one of which is accompanied by a stamp, dated 1321 H [1903 or 1904].
References
Mach, R. & Ormsby, E.L. Handlist of Arabic manuscripts (New Series), no. 103, 314, 157.
Brockelmann, C. GAL, I, 520 (12: no. I); SI, 725; II, 258 (no. 4); SII, 275.
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Contents
1. fol. 3a-156a: [Badāʼiʻ al-afkār] / Ḥabīb Allāh ibn Muḥammad ʻAlī al-Rashtī. Parts 1-2 of a treatise on uṣūl al-fiqh.
2. fol. 157b-209b: Manẓūmat al-Shāṭibī fī al-tajwīd / al-Qāsim ibn Fīrruh al-Shāṭibī. Treatise in verse on the readings of the Qurʼān.
3. fol. 210a-218b: [al-Durrah al-muḍīʼah fī qirāʼāt al-aʼimmah al-thalāthah al-marḍīyah] / Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Jazarī. Treatise in verse on the readings of the Qurʼān.
Notes
Ms. composite codex.
Title from text 1.
Description: Text 1, varying lines per page; written in small shikastah in black on machine-made paper; catchwords. Texts 2-3, 11 lines per page, in two columns; written in large naskh in black on machine-made paper; vocalized in red through leaf 182b; catchwords and headings in red; some marginal and interlinear notes. Occasional staining.
Origin: Text 1, part 1, Shawwāl 1295 H [October 1878] (leaf 82a); part 2 likely completed soon afterward. Text 2, mid-Rabī I 1269 H [December 1852] (leaf 209b); text 3 likely completed soon afterward.
Incipit: [بدائع الافكار] الحمد لله ... القول في اصول الفقه و مقاصده خمسه
Binding Note
Full golden-brown leather with blind-stamped fillets.

Discovery Information

Subject
Qurʼan—Readings—Early works to 1800
Islamic law—Interpretation and construction—Early works to 1800
Shīʻah—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Blind tooled bindings
Stamps

Physical Characteristics

File Count
233

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

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