Descriptive Information

Title

زبدة المشهور بآيات الاحكام / لفاضل الكامل مولانا كمال الاسلام والمسلين احمد الاردبيلي

Transliterated Title

Zubdat al-mashhūr bi-āyāt al-aḥkām / li-Fāḍil al-kāmil mawlānā Kamāl al-Islām wa-al-muslimīn Aḥmad al-Ardabīlī ...

Call Number

Islamic Manuscripts, New Series no. 705

Identifier

http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/1c18dj39q

Publisher

[Iran?, 1692]

Language

Arabic

Date Created

1692

Format

Manuscript

Extent

250 leaves : paper ; 250 x 155 (165 x 90) mm. bound to 250 x 160 mm.

Provenance

Impression of a square stamp on fol. 1a, 2a, and 247b, reading: "al-Wāthiq ʻĪsá ... al-Ḥusaynī al-Ṭabāṭabāʼī ...", dated 1333(?) H.

References

Mach, R. and E. Ormsby. Handlist (New Series), 1611

Brockelmann, C. GAL, SII, 582 (2/1)

Rights Statement

No Known Copyright

Notes

Ms. codex.

Title from colophon (fol. 247b).

Physical description: 18 lines. Written in black ink with use of red for overlining and headings. Light cream paper, glossy, with pulp and laid lines visible ; from fol. 174 on, European paper with watermark, with a gold frame on the outer margin of some leaves ; frame-ruled. Marginal and interlinear annotations. On fol. 259a: Inscription reporting a ḥadīth. Mention of a price on fol. 1a. Fol. 1 is a later added leaf on European paper, with a table of contents on its verso. Some leaves are disbound. One bifolio misplaced in fifteenth quire: the proper order is fol. 113-115-114.

Collation: Paper, fol. 250 ; 1⁸ (+1, at beginning of quire) 2-11⁸ 12⁶ 13-14⁸ 15⁶ 16-22⁸ 23-30⁶ 31⁶ (+1, fol. 227) 32-34⁶ 35⁴ ; catchword on the verso of each leaf.

Origin: According to colophon, copy completed on 26 Rajab 1103 [April 13, 1692] (fol. 247b).

Incipit: الحمد لله رب العالمين والصلوة على رسوله محمد واله اجمعين اما بعد فاعلم ان هنا فايدة لا بد قبل الشروع فى المقصود من الاشارة اليها وهي ان المشهور بين الطلبة انه لا يجوز تفسير القران بغير نصّ واثر

Explicit: مع كون سبب النزول خاصا لما مر ثم على تقدير التخصيص ايضا لا يبعد لتعميم لفهم العلة فيخرج الباقى فتامل

Binding Note

Red leather over paper pasteboards for upper and lower covers, with a gilt border consisting of fillets and a running pattern of impressions of a small stamp. Marbled paper pastedowns.

Discovery Information

Subject

Islamic law—Shiʻah—History—16th century—Sources

Shīʿah—Doctrines—History—16th century—Sources

Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton

Qurʼan—Commentaries—History—16th century—Sources

Physical Characteristics

File Count

258

Institutional Information

Collection

Manuscripts of the Islamic World

IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/21a41471-da06-4fcf-bae6-d4d04e37e613/manifest

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