Item Summary

Collection of Arabic and Persian texts, mainly on law and logic.

Descriptive Information

Title
خلاصة الحساب / شيخ، واحكام مقادير، وكتابي در ارث، والفية شهيد.
Transliterated Title
Khulāṣat al-ḥisāb / Shaykh, wa-Aḥkām maqādīr, wa-Kitābī dar irth, wa-Alfīyat Shahīd.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, New Series no. 813
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/5999n599r
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1600-1793
Extent
245 leaves : paper, illustrations ; 186 x 106-125 (117-165 x 49-101) mm bound to 186 x 129 mm
Provenance
On leaf 1a, owners' stamp and notes, one of which is dated 1276 H.
References
Mach, R. & Ormsby, E.L. Handlist of Arabic manuscripts (New Series), no. 752, 28, 957, 262, 1379.
Brockelmann, C. GAL, II, 271 (3: no. 1); II, 281 (no. 8); SII, 132 (no. 4); SII, 294; SII, 306 (no. 8 = 35)
Āghā Buzurg. Dharīʻah (1936-), XXIII, 324-325 (no. 9162)
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Contents
1. fol. 1b-28a: Mīzān al-maqādīr fī tibyān al-taqādīr / Aghā Raḍī al-Dīn. Treatise on weights and measures.
2. fol. 29a-108b: [Khulāṣat al-ḥisāb with Persian translation and commentary] / Bahāʼ al-Dīn al-ʻĀmilī. The text of Khulāṣat al-ḥisāb with a Persian translation and commentary, author unidentified; incomplete at beginning.
3. fol. 109b-152a: [Alfīyah fī farḍ al-ṣalāh al-yawmīyah] / al-Shahīd al-Awwal. Shiʻite treatise on ritual prayer.
4. fol. 153b-222b: [Tuḥfah-i Rafīʻī] / Muḥammad Qāsim Khudābakhsh. Shiʻite treatise on inheritance laws. Chart on leaves 179b-185a.
5. fol. 223b-227b: [al-Risālah al-kubrá fī al-manṭiq] / al-Sayyid al-Sharīf al-Jurjānī. Translation from Persian of the author's treatise on logic.
6. fol.228b-236b: [al-Ghurrah fī al-manṭiq] / Ibn al-Sharīf al-Jurjānī. Treatise on logic.
7. fol. 237b-244a: [al-Ṣaḥāʼif al-arbaʻūn al-ilāhīyah]. Forty ḥadīth qudsī, supposedly from the Tawrāh according to the introduction; text breaks off at the end of the 17th ḥadīth.
Notes
Ms. composite codex.
Spine title.
Leaves 29a-54b written on a diagonal. Charts and diagrams.
Layout: 6-23 lines per page.
Description: Written in nastaʻliq with elements of shikastah ; rubricated ; original text overlined in red ; some damp-staining; first leaf torn; a few repairs, resulting in some loss of text on leaves 29, 108.
Origin: [Mīzān al-maqādīr] Copied Jumādá I 1208 (leaf 28a) -- [al-Risālah al-kubrá] Jumādá I 1051 (leaf 227b) -- [al-Ghurrah fī al-manṭiq] Copied 1051 by Muḥammad Ḥasan ibn Mullā Mīrzā-yi ... [?] al-mashhūr bi-Qāḍī Mīrzā (leaf 237b)
Incipit: [ميزان المقادير] اللهم صل ... و بعد فىقول ... کثىرا ما وقعت فى الشرعىة الحقة -- [الفية] الحمد لله ... وبعد فهذه رسالة وجيزة في فرض الصلوة -- [تحفه رفىعى] الحمدلله رب العالمين ... اما بعد چون اقل عباد ... همگى و تمامى اوقات خود را نزد علماى كرام اماميه و فقهاى ذوى الاحترام اثنى عشريه ... صرف علوم دينيه و كتب معارف يقينيه -- [الرسالة الكبرى] الحمد لله الذي لا يتم منطق الفصيح دون شکره ... وبعد فان الرسالة الشريفة التي الفها -- [الغرة في المنطق] منطق کل منطيق ... فيقول ... محمد بن شريف -- [الصحائف الاربعون] عجبت لمن اىقن بالموت
Binding Note
Limp golden-brown leather with blind-stamped fillets.

Physical Characteristics

File Count
256

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/1c288d82-e0af-4cfa-9db6-818bd8ae53b3/manifest