Item Summary

Treatise on uṣūl al-fiqh.

Descriptive Information

Title
تمهيد القواعد / شهيد ثاني.
Transliterated Title
Tamhīd al-qawāʻid / Shahīd Thānī.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, New Series no. 2085
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/zc77ss71r
Publisher
[17--?]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1700
Extent
134 leaves : paper ; 228 x 137 (165 x 80) mm bound to 228 x 144 mm
References
Mach, R. & Ormsby, E.L. Handlist of Arabic manuscripts (New Series), no. 1495
Brockelmann, C. GAL, II, 425 (1: no. 2); SII, 449
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Ms. codex.
Spine title.
Manuscript erroneously foliated beginning on the second leaf. Record follows erroneous foliation.
Physical description: 23 lines per page; written in nastaʻliq with elements of shikastah in black on glazed, laid European paper. Rubrication and catchwords. Some damp-staining, particularly toward end of manuscript, causing blurring of text on a few pages. A few repairs, with loss of text along the lower edge on leaf 6.
Incipit: القسم الاول في قواعد الاصول الفقهية و فىه مقاصد المقصد الاول في الحکم
Binding Note
Full brown leather with blind-stamped central mandorla, pendants, and fillets; black paper doublures.

Physical Characteristics

File Count
139

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/5a63d6c9-5c88-45c0-8e6c-c70782cca2b8/manifest