Item Summary

Holograph copy of al-Aḥsāʼī's work on the famous Twelver Shiʻi pilgrimage prayer.

Descriptive Information

Title
شرح جامع.
Transliterated Title
Sharḥ Jāmiʻ.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, New Series no. 1187
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/cz30pw28x
Publisher
19 Rabīʻ al-Mawlūd 1230 [March 1, 1815]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1815
Format
Manuscript
Extent
157 leaves : paper ; 205 x 141 (148 x 103) mm bound to 210 x 148 mm.
Provenance
Stamp in purple ink (fol. 2a).
References
Brockelmann, GAL, SII, 845 (no. 4),
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from colophon (fol. 155a).
A few marginal notes. Cosmology? diagrams (fol. 155b-156a) and table (fol. 156b). Title also on spine label.
Collation: Paper ; fol. 157 (first and last folios are later paper) ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 24 lines per page.
Description: Watermarks (unidentified mark; roman-alphabet lettering "GIOST.." ; MS in fair condition, staining with some ink smudged.
Origin: According to the colophon copied 19 Rabīʻ al-Mawlūd 1230 (fol. 155a)
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه نستعين قل العبد المسكين احمد بن زين الدين الاحصائى قال ...
Colophon: وفرغ فى تسويده مولفه العبد المسكين احمد بن زين الدين بن ابراهيم ... الاحسائى في الليله التاسعه عشره من شهر ربيع المولود ... سنه ثلاثين ومائتين والف من الحجرة النبويه ... تمت كتابه هذا الشرح الجامع ... والحمد له رب العالمين ولاصلاه على اشرف الذين ؟ والمرسلين محمد واله الطاهرين
Binding Note
Later full-bound type III (without flap) binding in brow leather. Decorative blind-tooled edging.

Discovery Information

Subject
Ziyārah al-jāmiʻah al-kabīrah
Shīʿah—Prayers and devotions—History and criticism
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton

Physical Characteristics

File Count
162

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/00d99f6b-d804-442c-a4b5-b236444e30d4/manifest