Item Summary

First volume of a work on uṣūl al-fiqh.

Descriptive Information

Title
جلد اول مفاتيح اصول.
Transliterated Title
Jild awwal Mafātīḥ uṣūl.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, New Series no. 1401
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/v405sd002
Publisher
Iṣfahān, [1820]
اصفهان، [1820]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1820
Format
Manuscript
Extent
288 leaves : paper ; 211 x 147 (170 x 110) mm bound to 214 x 154 mm
References
Mach, R. & Ormsby, E.L. Handlist of Arabic manuscripts (New Series), no. 619
Brockelmann, C. GAL, SII, 826 (10: no. 1)
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from upper edge.
Physical description: 21 lines per page; written in casual naskh in black on glazed, laid European paper. Rubrication and catchwords. Leaf 1 is a replacement on machine-made paper. Marginal damp-staining.
Origin: 14 Muḥarram 1236 H [22 October 1820] in Iṣfahān, by Muḥammad ibn Āqā Bābā al-Jīlānī (leaf 288a).
Incipit: الحمد لله ... باب مفاتيح اللغات قال الله ... القول في الدلالة مفتاح اختلف العلماء في ان اللفظ هي تدل على معناه بالذات او بوضع الواضع
Binding Note
Full brown leather with blind-stamped central mandorla and pendants and blind-tooled fillets; yellow paper doublures.

Discovery Information

Subject
Islamic law—Interpretation and construction
Shīʻah
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton

Physical Characteristics

File Count
298

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/136f980d-5515-4cdb-8a61-5f3d7bfa082d/manifest