Item Summary

Second half of a treatise on Shiʻite law, with a table of contents on leaves 318a-318b.

Descriptive Information

Title
كتاب المفاتيح.
Transliterated Title
Kitāb al-Mafātīḥ.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, New Series no. 142
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/vx021h70d
Publisher
[1715]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1715
Format
Manuscript
Extent
328 leaves : paper ; 200 x 146 (155 x 92) mm bound to 203 x 149 mm
Provenance
On leaf 326a, stamp of scribe next to colophon, and owner's stamp and note of ... ibn Muḥammad.
References
Mach, R. & Ormsby, E.L. Handlist of Arabic manuscripts (New Series), no. 615
Brockelmann, C. GAL, SII, 584 (no. 3)
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from leaf 326a.
Manuscript erroneously foliated in Western script beginning on the first of eight flyleaves. Record follows erroneous foliation.
Physical description: 15 lines per page; written in large, casual naskh in black on glazed, laid European paper. Rubrication and catchwords; marginal notes. Foliated in Arabic script, with errors. Mild staining and a few paper repairs.
Origin: 4 Rajab 1127 H [6 July 1715], by Ibn ʻAlī Akbar Mullā Ḥubb ʻAlī (leaf 326a).
Incipit: فن العادات والمعاملات من كتاب مفاتيح الشرايع وفيه كتب مفاتيح المطاعم والمشارب مفاتيح المناكح والمواليد
Binding Note
Full brown leather with blind-stamped central mandorla and pendants; front cover lacking.

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
340

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

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