Item Summary

Treatise on Shīʻī law.

Descriptive Information

Title
كتاب القواعد / من تصنيف زبدة المحققين شيخ جمال الدين مطهر قدس روحه
Transliterated Title
Kitāb al-Qawāʻid / min taṣnīf zubdat al-muḥaqqiqīn shaykh Jamāl al-Dīn Muṭahhar qaddasa rūḥah.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, New Series no. 107
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/gq67jt79f
Publisher
Ardabīl, [1568]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1568
Format
Manuscript
Extent
i, 407, i leaves : paper ; 242 x 176 (155 x 105) mm. bound to 248 x 180 mm.
Provenance
Several ownership statements with impressions of seals on fol. 1a, in the name of ʻAbd al-Walī ibn Niẓām al-Dīn al-Rustamdānī(?); of Mūsá ibn al-shaykh Muḥammad Riḍā āl al-marḥūm al-shaykh Jaʻfar [Mūsá ibn Muḥammad Riḍā ibn Jaʻfar] ; one with name obliterated dated 1274 H.
References
Mach, R. and E. Ormsby. Handlist (New Series), 894
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
Physical description: 21 lines per page. Written in small naskh in black ink with use of red. dark cream paper, glossy, with laid lines visible. Ḥāshiyah on the margin. Table of contents on fol. 1a.
Inscription in Arabic numerals on fol. 1a: "1066" (repeated on a spine label -- vertical).
Origin: According to colophon, copied by Ibn Niẓām al-Dīn ʻAbd al-Walī, Dār al-irshād Ardabīl, 14 Shaʻbān 975 [Feb. 13, 1568] (fol. 407b, with seal).
Incipit: بسم ... وبه نستعين الحمد لله على سوابغ النعماء وترادف الالاء المتفضل بارسال الانبياء ... اما بعد فهذا كتاب قواعد الاحكام فى معرفة الحلال والحرام لخصت فيه لب الفتاوى خاصته بينت فيه قواعد احكام الخصة
Explicit: ما تجد من الخلل والنقصان والخطأ والنسيان هذه وصيتى اليك والله خليفتى عليك والسلام عليك ورحمة الله وبركاته تمت الكتاب القواعد الاحكام بعون الله الملك العلاّم
Binding Note
Half bound in golden brown leather and paper. Gilt title.

Discovery Information

Subject
Islamic law—Interpretation and construction—History—13th century—Sources
Islamic law—Interpretation and construction—History—14th century—Sources
Shīʻah—Doctrines—History—13th century—Sources
Shīʻah—Doctrines—History—14th century—Sources
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton

Physical Characteristics

File Count
419

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

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