Item Summary

Treatise on Shīʻī law.

Descriptive Information

Title
كتاب قواعد الاحكام في معرفة الحلال والحرام
Transliterated Title
Kitāb Qawāʻid al-aḥkām fī maʻrifat al-ḥalāl wa-al-ḥarām.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, New Series no. 649
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/pr76f6021
Publisher
[Iran?, 1660]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1660
Extent
231 leaves : paper ; 252 x 190 (177 x 115) mm.
Provenance
Ownership statement with seal reading: "ʻAbduhu Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Jaʻfar"(?) on fol. 1a.
References
Mach, R. and E. Ormsby. Handlist (New Series), 894
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from beginning of text (fol. 1a).
Physical description: 19 lines per page. Written in medium large nash with elements of nastaʻlīq in black ink with use of red. Dark cream paper, with laid lines and fiber visible. Ḥāshiyah on the beginning of the text. Wear on first leaves ; a few holes with loss of text.
Chiefly quaternions ; catchword on the verso of each leaf.
Inscription in Arabic numerals on a handmade label pasted on the upper cover: "316".
Origin: According to colophon, copied by Ibn ʻAbd al-Ṣamad al-Ḥusayn ...?, middle of Ramaḍān 1070 [May 1660] (fol. 232b).
Incipit: فهذا كتاب قواعد الاحكام فى معرفة الحلال والحرام لخصت فيه لب الفتاوى خاصته بينت فيه قواعد احكام الخصة
Explicit: ولو قال ادفع اليه بعد موتى لم ينعزل الثامنة والحمد لوليه والصلاة على نبيه ووصيه و ... ائمة المعصومين
Binding Note
Limp binding (brown leather) ; smaller than text block.

Physical Characteristics

File Count
236

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/a36036fa-fb3d-4a2c-9aa0-ab0dbeea91d9/manifest