Item Summary

Commentary on the author's versification of Bahāʼ al-Dīn al-ʻĀmilī's Zubdat al-uṣūl. Brockelmann (GAL, SII, 597 (no. 17, versif.)) mentions only the naẓm, not the commentary.

Descriptive Information

Title
[شرح على نظم زبدة الاصول].
Transliterated Title
[Sharḥ ʻalá Naẓm Zubdat al-uṣūl].
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, New Series no. 99
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/v979v568d
Publisher
[1699]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1699
Format
Manuscript
Extent
135 leaves : paper ; 223 x 128 (160 x 70) mm bound to 223 x 135 mm
References
Mach, R. & Ormsby, E.L. Handlist of Arabic manuscripts (New Series), no. 1615
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger, per Mach and Ormsby.
Manuscript erroneously foliated beginning on the first flyleaf. Record follows erroneous foliation.
Physical description: 17 lines per page; written in nastaʻliq in black on tan glazed, laid Arabic paper. Original text in naskh with vocalization. Rubrication and catchwords; marginal notes. Outer edge moldered; damp-staining across upper edge.
Origin: 30 Muḥarram 1111 H [28 July 1699], by Ibn ʻUrf Nuʻaym al-Ṭālaqānī; copied from a copy in the author's hand (leaf 135a).
Incipit: اقوم اصل يتفرع عليه السعادات
Incipit (naẓm): الحمد لله العلي العالي* ذي النور و البهاء و الافضال
Binding Note
Limp brown leather with black leather doublures, spine, and edges; blind-stamped central mandorla, pendants, and fillets.

Discovery Information

Subject
Sayfī, Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad Mahdī -1727 or 1728—Naẓm Zubdat al-uṣūl
سيفي، محمد بن محمد مهدي، -1727 or 1728—نظم زبدة الاصول
Islamic law—Interpretation and construction—Early works to 1800
Shīʻah—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton

Physical Characteristics

File Count
144

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

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