Descriptive Information

Title

[زبدة الاصول / شيخ بهائي].

Transliterated Title

[Zubdat al-uṣūl / Shaykh Bahāʼī].

Call Number

Islamic Manuscripts, New Series no. 841

Identifier

http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/c821gn396

Publisher

[1816 or 1817]

Language

Arabic

Date Created

1816-1817

Format

Manuscript

Extent

118 leaves : paper ; 185 x 100 (119 x 52) mm bound to 187 x 104 mm

Provenance

Two owners' notes and stamps on leaf 2a. Three owners' stamps on leaf 117a.

References

Mach, R. & Ormsby, E.L. Handlist of Arabic manuscripts (New Series), no. 1613

Brockelmann, C. GAL, SII, 597 (no. 17)

Rights Statement

No Known Copyright

Notes

Ms. codex.

Title from leaf 1a, by a later hand.

Physical description: 6 lines per page; written in large naskh in black on glazed, laid European paper. Catchwords; extensive interlinear and marginal notes. Occasional staining, smudging, and repairs.

Origin: 1232 H [1816 or 1817], by Muḥammad Ḥusayn ibn Ḥājjī Mīrzā Aḥmad al-Muṣāḥibī al-Nāʼīnī (leaf 117a).

Incipit: ابهى اصل ىبتني علىه الخطاب واولى قول فضل ينتمي اليه اولو الالباب

Binding Note

Stiffened brown leather with blind-stamped fillets; brown leather doublures.

Discovery Information

Subject

Islamic law—Interpretation and construction—Early works to 1800

Shīʻah—Early works to 1800

Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton

Physical Characteristics

File Count

124

Institutional Information

Collection

Manuscripts of the Islamic World

IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/dc44211a-6bb8-4669-b1be-258aabd74fdd/manifest

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