Item Summary

Treatise on Shiʻite law; incomplete at beginning and end.

Descriptive Information

Title
دروس / شهيد اول.
Transliterated Title
Durūs / Shahīd Awwal.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, New Series no. 1978
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/b5644v16r
Publisher
[1680]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1680
Format
Manuscript
Extent
227 leaves : paper ; 266 x 194 (212 x 119) mm bound to 267 x 196 mm
Provenance
Owner's stamp of Ṣadr al-Dīn Muḥammad al-Ḥusaynī on first flyleaf.
References
Mach, R. & Ormsby, E.L. Handlist of Arabic manuscripts (New Series), no. 159
Brockelmann, C. GAL, SII, 132 (no. 3)
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Ms. codex.
Spine title.
Physical description: 24 lines per page; written in naskh in black on glazed, laid European paper. Rubrication and catchwords. Damp-staining and insect damage, mainly marginal; repairs to leaves at the beginning and end.
Origin: Part 1 completed 23 Shawwāl 1091 H [16 November 1680], by Ibn ʻAṭāʼ Allāh al-Ḥusaynī al-Ḥarārī al-Shīrāzī (leaf 176a).
Binding Note
Full brown leather with gold-stamped central mandorla and pendants and blind-tooled fillets; yellow paper doublures.

Discovery Information

Subject
Islamic law—Early works to 1800
Shīʻah—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton

Physical Characteristics

File Count
233

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/46a40758-9c36-457b-9a67-604004e91b6b/manifest