Item Summary

Treatise on Islamic law followed by a commentary on the preface.

Descriptive Information

Title
كتاب قواعد الاحكام في معرفة الحلال والحرام ... [الخ.]
Transliterated Title
Kitāb Qawāʻid al-aḥkām fī maʻrifat al-ḥalāl wa-al-ḥarām ... [etc.].
Call Number
Oversize Islamic Manuscripts, New Series no. 529q
Identifier
ark:/88435/qv33s026z
Publisher
[1357-16--?]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1357-1699
Extent
358 leaves : paper ; 274 x 192 (195 x 124) mm bound to 278 x 198 mm
References
Mach, R. & Ormsby, E.L. Handlist of Arabic manuscripts (New Series), no. 894, 399.
Brockelmann, C. GAL, II, 211 (no. 4); SII, 207; SII, 209 (2: no. 3).
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Contents
1. leaves 3a-5a, 6a-8b: [Extracts and notes].
2. leaves 5b, 9a-354b: Kitāb Qawāʻid al-aḥkām fī maʻrifat al-ḥalāl wa-al-ḥarām / Ibn al-Muṭahhar al-Ḥillī. Treatise on Shiʻite law.
3. leaves 355a-357a: Jāmiʻ al-fawāʼid fī sharḥ khuṭbat al-Qawāʻid / Fakhr al-Muḥaqqiqīn. Commentary on the preface of Qawāʻid al-aḥkām by his father, Ibn al-Muṭahhar al-Ḥillī.
4. leaves 357a-360b: [Extracts and notes].
Notes
Ms. composite codex.
Marginal notes.
Layout: 25 lines per page.
Description: Written in black on glazed, laid Arabic paper. Rubrication, catchwords, and vocalization. Manuscript is damp-stained and mildewed, with a few repairs. Leaves 6-8 belong before leaf 5.
Origin: [Kitāb Qawāʻid al-aḥkām] Copied 3 Jumādá I, 758 by Aḥmad ibn ʻAlī ibn Muḥsin al-Ḥusaynī (leaf 354b) -- [Jāmiʻ al-fawāʼid] Likely 17th century.
Incipit: [كتاب قواعد الاحكام] الحمد لله على سوابغ النعماء وترادف الالاء المتفضل بارسال الانبياء ... اما بعد فهذا كتاب قواعد الاحكام في معرفة الحلال والحرام لخصت فيه لب الفتاوى خاصته بينت فيه قواعد احكام الخاصة -- [جامع الفوائد] الحمد لله ... اما بعد فقد سئلني اجل الخلان ... ان املي عليه شرح خطبة القواعد
Binding Note
Full red leather with flap on front cover; gold-stamped fillets; blue leather doublures.

Physical Characteristics

File Count
422

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

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