Item Summary

Holographic copy of a treatise on the presumption of the state of continuity, comprising a muqaddimah and six bāb; missing at least one leaf at the beginning.

Descriptive Information

Title
رسالة في الاستصحاب / للفاضل الفقيه مولانا محمد مهدي نجل مركز دائرة الفضلا قطب الشريعة الغراء الحاج محمد ابراهيم الكرباسي الخراساني.
Transliterated Title
Risālah fī al-istiṣḥāb / lil-fāḍil al-faqīh Mawlānā Muḥammad Mahdī najl markaz dāʼirat al-fuḍalā quṭb al-sharīʻah al-gharrāʼ al-Ḥājj Muḥammad Ibrāhīm al-Kirbāsī al-Khurāsānī.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, New Series no. 1319
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/ws859j29m
Publisher
[1814]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1814
Format
Manuscript
Extent
87 leaves : paper ; 150 x 102 (104 x 63) mm bound to 151 x 104 mm
Provenance
Stamp of the Kitābkhānah-i Majd al-Dīn on leaf 1a.
References
Mach, R. & Ormsby, E.L. Handlist of Arabic manuscripts (New Series), no. 1223
Āghā Buzurg. Dharīʻah (1936-), II, 25
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from leaf 1a.
Manuscript erroneously foliated beginning on the front flyleaf. Record follows erroneous foliation.
Physical description: 16 lines per page; written in naskh in black on glazed, laid European paper. Rubrication and catchwords; marginal notes. Mild staining.
Origin: Jumādá II 1229 H [1814], in the hand of the author (leaf 88b).
Incipit (muqaddimah): في بيان مهية الاستصحاب وحقيقته وفيه مقامات
Binding Note
Limp olive green leather with blind-tooled fillets.

Discovery Information

Subject
Istiṣḥāb (Islamic law)—Early works to 1800
Shīʻah—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Autographs (manuscripts)—Islamic countries—19th century

Physical Characteristics

File Count
98

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/524b143e-d871-4463-a4c0-accca4746976/manifest