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كتاب الحدائق الناضرة في احكام العترة الطاهرة.
Kitāb al-Ḥadāʼiq al-nāḍirah fī aḥkām al-ʻitrah al-ṭāhirah.
1800-1815
Four volumes of a large compendium of Shiʻite law. Volume 2 is missing at least one leaf at the beginning.
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- [between 1800? and 1815]
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- Language
- Arabic
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Item Summary
Four volumes of a large compendium of Shiʻite law. Volume 2 is missing at least one leaf at the beginning.
Descriptive Information
- Title
- كتاب الحدائق الناضرة في احكام العترة الطاهرة.
- Transliterated Title
- Kitāb al-Ḥadāʼiq al-nāḍirah fī aḥkām al-ʻitrah al-ṭāhirah.
- Call Number
- Oversize Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 2368Yq
- Identifier
- ark:/88435/gx41mm46w
- Publisher
- [between 1800? and 1815]
- Language
- Arabic
- Date Created
- 1800-1815
- Format
- Manuscript
- Extent
- 4 volumes (242, 234, 307, 288 leaves) : paper ; 299-324 x 195-215 (219-253 x 118-136) mm bound to 304-326 x 205-225 mm
- Provenance
- Several owner's stamps and notes on leaf 2a of volume 3. 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. 1586
- Brockelmann, C. GAL, SII, 504 (4a: no. 2)
- Rights Statement
- No Known Copyright
- Contents
- Volumes 1-2: kitāb al-ṭahārah
- Volume 3: kitāb al-ṣalāh
- Volume 4: kitāb al-nikāḥ.
- Notes
- Ms. codex.
- Volume 3 erroneously foliated beginning on the front flyleaf. Record follows erroneous foliation.
- Title from colophon, volume 2, leaf 234b.
- Physical description, volumes 1-2: 31 lines per page; written in small naskh in black on glazed, laid European paper. Catchwords; overlining in black. Spaces left for rubrication. Mild staining and a few paper repairs. First leaf of volume 1 is a replacement.
- Physical description, volume 3: 31 lines per page; written in miniscule naskh in black on glazed, laid European paper. Rubrication and catchwords. Mild staining and a few paper repairs.
- Physical description, volume 4: 24 lines per page; written in medium naskh in black on glazed, laid European paper. Catchwords. Mild staining.
- Origin: Volumes 1-2 copied by one hand, likely early 19th century. Volume 3 dated 3 Dhū al-Qaʻdah 1225 H [30 November 1810], by Ibn Rajab ʻAlī Khāmī [?] Bābā-yi Samnānī (leaf 308b). Volume 4 dated 26 Rajab 1230 H [4 July 1815], by ʻAbd Allāh ibn ʻAlī ibn ʻAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad al-Maqābī [vocalization?] al-Awānī al-Majrānī [vocalization?] (leaf 288a).
- Incipit: الحمد لله الذي هدانا بواضح الدليل الى سبيل معادن العلم
- Binding Note
- Volumes 1-2, full red leather with blind-stamped central mandorla, pendants, and fillets; yellow paper doublures. Volume 3, full red leather with blind-stamped central mandorla and pendants; spine and corners repaired. Volume 4, full red leather with blind-tooled fillets.
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- File Count
- 481
Institutional Information
- Collection
- Manuscripts of the Islamic World
- IIIF Manifest URL
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https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/4ab3dd6b-bb9e-4069-b5c0-fe5f3a0fbaa3/manifest