Item Summary

Collection of two texts on Shiʻite fiqh.

Descriptive Information

Title
هذه كتاب الوافية في الاصول. فوائد العتيق / من تصانيف مولانا محمد باقر البهبهاني.
Transliterated Title
Hādhihi Kitāb al-Wāfiyah fī al-uṣūl. Fawāʼid al-ʻatīq / min taṣānīf Mawlānā Muḥammad Bāqir al-Bahbahānī.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, New Series no. 1943
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/6h440w06c
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1806-1807
Extent
110 leaves : paper ; 205 x 148 mm (150 x 86) bound to 205 x 151 mm
References
Mach, R. & Ormsby, E.L. Handlist of Arabic manuscripts (New Series), no. 1576, 212.
Brockelmann, C. GAL, SII, 577 (1m); SII, 504 (5: no. 5).
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Contents
1. fol. 1(bis)b-64b: Hādhihi Kitāb al-Wāfiyah fī al-uṣūl / ʻAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad al-Tūnī. Treatise on Shiʻite uṣūl al-fiqh.
2. fol. 65b-103a: Fawāʼid al-ʻatīq / Muḥammad Bāqir ibn Muḥammad Akmal al-Bahbahānī. Treatise on Shiʻite uṣūl al-fiqh comprising 36 fawāʼid.
Notes
Ms. composite codex.
Manuscript erroneously foliated beginning on the sixth leaf. Record follows erroneous foliation. First four leaves contain notes and extracts or are blank.
Physical description: Text 1, 22 lines per page; written in naskh in black. Text 2, 26 lines per page; written in small naskh in black; script changes to nastaʻliq on leaf 90a. Entire manuscript on glazed, laid European paper. Rubrication and catchwords. Mild staining; upper outer corner moldered.
Origin: Text 1 dated [1]221 H [1806 or 1807] (leaf 64b). Text 2 likely completed around the same time.
Incipit: [كتاب الوافية في الاصول] الحمد لله على جزيل آلائه ... اما بعد فهذه رسالة وافية -- [فوائد العتيق] الفائدة الاولى في عظم خطر الفقه
Binding Note
Limp black leather.

Physical Characteristics

File Count
114

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/40eefc3d-b36a-44d1-a5fb-06a5972e9a2f/manifest