Item Summary

Two texts on Shiʻite law.

Descriptive Information

Title
[تقريرات في اصول الفقه]. [بدائع الافكار].
Transliterated Title
[Taqrīrāt fī uṣūl al-fiqh]. [Badāʼiʻ al-afkār].
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, New Series no. 340
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/hq37vr19n
Publisher
[1883]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1883
Format
Manuscript
Extent
257 leaves : paper ; 212 x 153 (142-150 x 80-92) mm bound to 215 x 156 mm
References
Mach, R. & Ormsby, E.L. Handlist of Arabic manuscripts (New Series), 103, 1510.
Brockelmann, C. GAL, SII, 796 (24: no. 1).
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Contents
1. fol. 1b-74a: [Taqrīrāt fī uṣūl al-fiqh] / Muḥammad Jaʻfar ibn ʻAbbās al-Gulpāygānī. Holographic copy of the author's lessons from Ḥabīb Allāh ibn Muḥammad ʻAlī al-Rashtī; incomplete at end. Mach and Ormsby attribute this text to the teacher, but according to Āghā Buzurg (Dharīʻah, IV, 374), taqrīrāt are properly attributed to the student.
2. fol. 76a-257b: [Badāʼiʻ al-afkār] / Ḥabīb Allāh ibn Muḥammad ʻAlī al-Rashtī. Treatise on uṣūl al-fiqh; contains pages 295-405 of the printed text (Tehran, 1313).
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Layout: 19-20 lines per page.
Description: Written in small script in black on machine-made paper. Rubrication and catchwords; a few marginal notes. Mild staining.
Origin: Text 2, 23 Dhū al-Qaʻdah 1300 H [25 September 1883], by Muḥammad Jaʻfar ibn ʻAbbās al-Gulpāygānī (leaf 257b). Text 1 copied by the same scribe, likely around the same time.
Incipit: [تقريرات] احسن ميادى يبتدى بها الکلام وخير مباني يبتني عليها المرام -- [بجائع الافكار] بديعة اختلفوا في وجوب مقدمة الواجب
Binding Note
Contemporary full red leather with blind-stamped fillets.

Discovery Information

Subject
Islamic law—Interpretation and construction
Shīʿah
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
holographs (autographs)
Blind tooled bindings

Physical Characteristics

File Count
262

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/c91ca8b0-4fdf-44c1-8034-611a6cfea9f1/manifest