Item Summary

Treatise against the Sunnah.

Descriptive Information

Title
كتاب الطرائف في معرفة مذاهب الطوائف / لسيد رضي الدين ابو القاسم علي ابن موسى ابن جعفر ابن محمد ابن محمد ابن طاوس
Transliterated Title
Kitāb al-Ṭarāʼif fī maʻrifat madhāhib al-ṭawāʼif / li-Sayyid Raḍī al-Dīn Abū al-Qāsim ʻAlī Ibn Mūsá Ibn Jaʻfar Ibn Muḥammad Ibn Muḥammad Ibn Ṭāwus.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 135Y
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/xp68kj819
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1689
Extent
156 leaves: paper ; 244 x 185 (165 x 122) mm. bound to 250 x 190 mm.
Provenance
Two ownership statements with seals on fol. 1a, signed Muḥammad ʻAlī Ibn Aḥmad al-Mūsawī al-Ḥāʼirī and Muḥammad ibn Mūsá(?). Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Mach, R. Yahuda, 2622
Brockelmann, C. GAL, SI, 912/3
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from fol. 1a.
23 lines per page. Written in medium small naskh in black ink with use of red. Thin light cream paper with laid lines and pulp visible. Marginal notes (see in particular fol. 80b-81a).Verses of poetry in Persian on fol. 155b (2 lines). Title on the lower edge of the text block, reading: "Ṭarāʼif marḥūm sayyid". Modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals (two fol. 93).
Copy completed in the first decade of Muḥarram 1101 [October 1689] in al-Mashhad al-Riḍawī by Ibn Muḥammad Ḥusayn Muḥammad Taqī al-Sabzawarī, with explanation reading: "tadhkiratan ikhwānī wa-wasīlatan li-maḥw sayʼatī ..." (colophon, fol. 154a).
Collation: Paper, fol. 156 ; 1-18⁸ 19⁸ (+4, fol. 152-155) ; catchword on the verso of each leaf.
Incipit: الحمد لله كما يستحقّه لذاته ويستوجبه باحسانه ... اما بعد فانى رجل من اهل الذمة ولى بذلك على اهل الاسلام ثبوت حرمة
Explicit: ولجميع اهل المعاصى والزلات من التابعين لهم عليهم التصلية والتسليم والتحيات من جميع البريات ما بقى ذى حيوة فى الارضين والسموات
Binding Note
Marbled paper over paper pasteboards with red leather borders for upper and lower covers. Red leather spine. Paper pastedowns.

Physical Characteristics

File Count
161

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/108fff95-2db9-45b4-af63-8e16ce51e891/manifest