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كتاب النهاية في الفقه / تصنيف الشيخ السعيد الجليل الجعفري محمد بن الحسن الطوسي.
Kitāb al-Nihāyah fī al-fiqh / taṣnīf al-Shaykh al-saʻīd al-jalīl al-Jaʻfarī Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan al-Ṭūsī.
1552
Compendium of Shiʻite law, missing about 10 leaves at the end. With a table of contents on leaves 2b-8a.
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Item Summary
Compendium of Shiʻite law, missing about 10 leaves at the end. With a table of contents on leaves 2b-8a.
Descriptive Information
- Title
- كتاب النهاية في الفقه / تصنيف الشيخ السعيد الجليل الجعفري محمد بن الحسن الطوسي.
- Transliterated Title
- Kitāb al-Nihāyah fī al-fiqh / taṣnīf al-Shaykh al-saʻīd al-jalīl al-Jaʻfarī Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan al-Ṭūsī.
- Call Number
- Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 134Y
- Identifier
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/f4752k36p
- Publisher
- [1552]
- Language
- Arabic
- Date Created
- 1552
- Format
- Manuscript
- Extent
- 204 leaves : paper ; 242 x 185 (152 x 98) mm bound to 243 x 187 mm
- Provenance
- On leaf 2a, owner's note and stamp of Muḥammad Bāqir al-Najafī. On leaf 9a, owner's notes by ʻAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad Riḍā ibn Muḥammad Bāqir and Shaykh Khiḍr ibn Shallāl. On leaf 10a, owner's note and stamp of Jaʻfar Ḥusaynī, as well as other effaced notes and stamps. On leaf 10b, stamp of Muḥammad Riḍā. 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. 1557
- Brockelmann, C. GAL, I, 513 (no. 11); SI, 707
- Rights Statement
- No Known Copyright
- Notes
- Ms. codex.
- Title from leaf 9b.
- Manuscript consists of 204 original leaves preceded by 8 leaves added later. Manuscript is erroneously foliated beginning on the first leaf of the later addition; record follows erroneous foliation.
- Physical description: 21 lines per page; written in small, neat naskh in black on cream glazed, laid Arabic paper. Headings in large script; catchwords and occasional rubrication. A few marginal notes. Foliated in Arabic script beginning on leaf 9. Light staining and smudging; front cover and leaves 1-16 detached.
- Origin: Juzʼ 1 completed 15 Jumādá I 959 H [9 May 1552], by Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad Iṣfahānī (leaf 108b).
- Incipit: الحمد لله مستحق الحمد وموجبه
- Binding Note
- Full brown leather with blind-stamped central mandorla and gold-stamped fillets and pendants; tan leather doublures.
Discovery Information
Physical Characteristics
- File Count
- 217
Institutional Information
- Collection
- Manuscripts of the Islamic World
- IIIF Manifest URL
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https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/3270cd7c-5355-4e59-8d91-d273695e2e9f/manifest