Item Summary

Collection of two Shiʻite texts.

Descriptive Information

Title
كتاب فهرست الشيعة / لشيخنا الشيخ ابي جعفر محمد بن الحسن الطوسي. الرسالة الموسومة بدرة النجف / للسيد الطباطبائي السيد مهدي النجفي.
Transliterated Title
Kitāb Fihrist al-Shīʻah / li-shaykhinā al-Shaykh Abī Jaʻfar Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan al-Ṭūsī. al-Risālah al-mawsūmah bi-Durrat al-Najaf / lil-Sayyid al-Ṭabāṭabāʼī al-Sayyid Mahdī al-Najafī.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, New Series no. 129
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/0v838318h
Publisher
[1929]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1929
Extent
126 leaves : paper ; 209 x 158 (148-154 x 74-93) mm bound to 215 x 160 mm
References
Mach, R. & Ormsby, E.L. Handlist of Arabic manuscripts (New Series), no. 129, 156.
Brockelmann, C. GAL, I, 512 (no. 7); SI, 707; SII, 505 (6: no. 2) = SII, 581(10).
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Contents
1. fol. 2a-67a: Kitāb Fihrist al-Shīʻah / Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan al-Ṭūsī. Bibliography of Shiʻite works.
2. fol. 68a-122b: Durrat al-Najaf / Muḥammad Mahdī ibn Murtaḍá Baḥr al-ʻUlūm. Treatise in verse on Shiʻite law.
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from leaves 2a, 68a.
Layout: 18-19 lines per page in one or two columns.
Description: Written in black on machine-made paper. Rubrication and catchwords. In excellent condition.
Origin: Text 1 dated 15 Dhū al-Qaʻdah 1347 H [25 April 1929], by ʻAlī ibn al-Ḥusayn (leaf 67a). Text 2 likely completed around the same time.
Incipit: [كتاب فهرست] الحمد لله ولي الحمد ومستحقه ... اما بعد فاني لما رايت جماعة من شيوخ طايفتنا من اصحاب الحديث --[درة النجف]افتتح المقال بعد البسملة * بحمد خير منعم والشكر له
Binding Note
Half leather with marbled paper covers; purple paper doublures.

Physical Characteristics

File Count
133

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/22b51011-e21b-4c45-b073-3596ac1eced7/manifest