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. 43

Identifier

http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/wd375w36b

Publisher

[Iran?, 1549]

Language

Arabic

Date Created

1549

Format

Manuscript

Extent

242 leaves : paper ; 255 x 185 (165 x 125) mm. bound to 255 x 195 mm.

Provenance

On last fol., signature of Muḥammad Bāqir ibn Aḥmad ibn Ismaʻīl ibn Muḥammad taqī ibn ʻAbd al-Ghaffūr al-Ḥusaȳnī al-Damāvandī (fol. 241b). Several ownership statements on fol. 1a, including one in the name of Faḍl ibn Muḥammad and one in the name of Muḥammad Alī. Two impressions of a small square stamp on fol. 28b and of an oval stamp on fol. 242b.

References

Mach, R. and E. Ormsby. Handlist (New Series), 894

Rights Statement

No Known Copyright

Notes

Ms. codex.

Title from beginning of text (fol. 1b).

Physical description: 25 lines per page. Written in small naskh in black ink with use of red. Ḥāshiyah on the margins and between the lines. Several inscriptions and short texts on fol. 1a and 242a, in Arabic and Persian, including quotations from the Qurʾān, prayers, and mention of names of the signs of the Zodiac.

Chiefly quaternions ; catchword on the verso of each leaf.

Inscription in Arabic numerals on a handmade label pasted on the upper cover: "114" (repeated in Western and in Arabic numerals on fol. 1a)..

Origin: According to colophon, copy completed in Rajab 956 [July-Aug. 1549] (fol. 241b).

Incipit: بسم ... وبه ثقتى رب يسر ولا تعب الحمد لله على سوابغ النعماء وترادف الالاء المتفضل بارسال الانبياء ... اما بعد فهذا كتاب قواعد الاحكام فى معرفة الحلال والحرام لخصت فيه لب الفتاوى خاصته بينت فيه قواعد احكام الخصة

Explicit: ما تجد من الخلل والنقصان والخطأ والنسيان هذه وصيتى اليك والله خليفتى عليك والسلام عليك ورحمة الله وبركاته والله تعالى اعلم بالصواب واليه المرجع والمآب

Binding Note

Bound in dark brown leather with flap. Golden brown leather doublure. Binding inverted.

Discovery Information

Subject

Islamic law—Interpretation and construction—History—13th century—Sources

Islamic law—Interpretation and construction—History—14th century—Sources

Shīʻah—Doctrines—History—13th century—Sources

Shīʻah—Doctrines—History—14th century—Sources

Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton

Physical Characteristics

File Count

490

Institutional Information

Collection

Manuscripts of the Islamic World

IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/f39ac64e-ab62-48ae-8459-42722cdde7a7/manifest

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