Item Summary

Text on Shiʻite fiqh preceded by a short text meant as its introduction.

Descriptive Information

Title
كتاب دراية وكتاب حبل المتين / شيخ بهائي.
Transliterated Title
Kitāb Dirāyah wa-Kitāb Ḥabl al-matīn / Shaykh Bahāʼī.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, New Series no. 819
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/8c97kt021
Publisher
[17--?]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1700
Format
Manuscript
Extent
274 leaves : paper ; 202 x 144 (138-150 x 91-99) mm bound to 208 x 147 mm
References
Mach, R. & Ormsby, E.L. Handlist of Arabic manuscripts (New Series), no. 1580, 278.
Brockelmann, C. GAL, SII, 596 (no. 15-16) = 597 (no, 31).
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Contents
1. fol. 2b-5b: al-Wajīzah. An introduction to the following treatise in this volume, al-Ḥabl al-matīn.
2. fol. 6a-275b: [al-Ḥabl al-matīn fī iḥkām aḥkām al-dīn]. Treatise on Shiʻite fiqh; incomplete at beginning and end.
Notes
Ms. composite codex.
Title from leaf 1a by a later hand.
Manuscript erroneously foliated beginning on front flyleaf. Record follows erroneous foliation.
Layout: 17-21 lines per page.
Description: Written in black on glazed, laid European paper. Rubrication and catchwords. Marginal damp-staining; a few repairs. Leaves 1-2 detached.
Origin: Likely 18th century.
Incipit: [الوجيزة] الحمد لله على نعمائه المتواترة ... وبعد هذه رسالة عزيزة موسومة بالوجيزة تضمن خلاصة علم الدراية
Binding Note
Full red-brown leather with blind-stamped fillets.

Discovery Information

Subject
Hadith (Shiites)—Early works to 1800
Islamic law—Early works to 1800
Shīʻah—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Blind tooled bindings

Physical Characteristics

File Count
284

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/bde1f305-cc8e-45fa-8322-cd6ef2cc1c75/manifest