Item Summary

Second half of a treatise on Shiʻite law.

Descriptive Information

Title
فن العادات والمعاملات من كتاب مفاتيح الشرايع.
Transliterated Title
Fann al-ʻādāt wa-al-muʻāmalāt min Kitāb Mafātīḥ al-sharāyiʻ.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 3086Y
Identifier
ark:/88435/1n79h958s
Publisher
[between 1650 and 1699?]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1650-1699
Format
Manuscript
Extent
182 leaves : paper ; 223 x 130 (155 x 71) mm bound to 223 x 136 mm
Provenance
Several stamps and notes on leaf 1a. Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
Source Acquisition
Gift; Robert Garrett (Class of 1897), 1942.
References
Mach, R. Catalogue of Arabic manuscripts (Yahuda section), no. 1573
Brockelmann, C. GAL, SII, 584 (no. 3)
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from incipit, leaf 1b.
Formerly shelved as Islamic Manuscripts, New Series no. 1912.
Physical description: 19 lines per page; written in neat naskh on cream glazed, laid Arabic paper. Rubrication and catchwords; cross-outs. Extensive damp-staining, but text largely unaffected.
Origin: Text completed in 1042 H [1632 or 1633] (leaf 182b). This copy likely from the second half of the 17th century; copied by Abū Turāb ibn Ismāʻīl al-Ḥasanī.
Incipit: فن العادات والمعاملات من كتاب مفاتيح الشرايع وفيه كتب مفاتيح المطاعم والمشارب مفاتيح المناكح والمواليد
Binding Note
Full brown leather with flap; gold-stamped fillets and green 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
191

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/771c7331-cb80-4cb6-af24-666224d08f3e/manifest