Item Summary

Two texts on Shiʻite law.

Descriptive Information

Title
زبدة الاصول وغيره.
Transliterated Title
Zubdat al-uṣūl wa-ghayrih.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, New Series no. 875
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/xg94hs154
Publisher
[Iran], [1824]
[ايران]، [1824]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1824
Format
Manuscript
Extent
114 leaves : paper ; 211 x 150 (120-138 x 65-74) mm bound to 211 x 154 mm
Provenance
Owners' stamps on leaves 89b, 113b. Owner's note on leaf 1a.
References
Mach, R. & Ormsby, E.L. Handlist of Arabic manuscripts (New Series), 212, 1613.
Brockelmann, C. GAL, SII, 504 (5: no. 5); SII, 597 (no. 17).
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Contents
1. fol. 1b-88b: Fawāʼid ʻatīq / Muḥammad Bāqir ibn Muḥammad Akmal al-Bahbahānī. Treatise on Shiʻite uṣūl al-fiqh comprising 36 fawāʼid.
2. fol. 89b-113b: Kitāb Zubdat Shaykh Bahāʼī fī al-uṣūl / Bahāʼ al-Dīn al-ʻĀmilī. Treatise on uṣūl al-fiqh.
Notes
Ms. composite codex.
Incipit: [فوائد عتيق] الفائدة الاولى في عظم خطر الفقه -- [كتاب زبدة] ان ابهى اصل ىبتني علىه الخطاب واولى قول فصل ينتمي اليه اولو الالباب
Title from leaf 1b.
Physical description: Text 1, 17 lines per page; written in black on glazed, laid European paper; rubrication and catchwords. Text 2, 15 lines per page; written in naskh in black on blue glazed, laid European paper; rubrication and catchwords. Mild staining; edges moldered.
Origin: Text 1, 17 Rabīʻ II 1240 H [9 December 1824] in Iṣfahān, by Qurbān ʻAlī ibn Ḥājjī Muḥammad Rafīʻ al-... [?] (leaf 88b). Text 2, 4 Rabīʻ I 1240 H [27 October 1824], by Muḥammad Ḥasan (leaf 113b); likely in Iran.
Binding Note
Limp black leather with blind-stamped fillets.

Discovery Information

Subject
Islamic law—Interpretation and construction—Early works to 1800
Shīʻah—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Blind tooled bindings
Stamps
Colored papers

Physical Characteristics

File Count
119

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/02256f30-f52d-4b54-b20d-252780fd72b5/manifest