Item Summary

Treatise on Shiʻite law; followed by notes and extracts on leaves 158b-164b.

Descriptive Information

Title
قواعد والفوائد.
Transliterated Title
Qawāʻid wa-al-fawāʼid.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 3962Y
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/7m01bp30x
Publisher
[1505]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1505
Extent
165 leaves : paper ; 185 x 137 (130 x 92) mm bound to 185 x 141 mm
Provenance
On front flyleaf and leaves 156a, 164b, owner's note and stamp of Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Wahhāb al-Hamadānī. Several owner's stamps on leaf 1(bis)a. 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. 1568
Āghā Buzurg. Dharīʻah (1936-), XVII, 193 (no. 1029)
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from leaf 1(bis)b, line 5.
Manuscript erroneously foliated beginning on second leaf. Record follows erroneous foliation.
Physical description: 19 lines per page; written in small, neat naskh in black on heavy, cream, glazed, laid Arabic paper. Rubrication and catchwords; spaces left for rubrication not completely filled in. Damp-stained, particularly across top of text block, and mildewed.
Origin: 4 Rabīʻ II 911 H [4 September 1505], by ʻAlī ibn Abū [!] al-Fatḥ (leaf 156a).
Incipit: اللهم احمدك والحمد من نعمايك ... قاعدة الفقه لغة الفهم
Binding Note
Full brown leather.

Physical Characteristics

File Count
174

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/9ea6bca3-d684-4858-a773-8490aa6611b2/manifest