Item Summary

Treatise on Shiʻite law followed by a commentary upon it.

Descriptive Information

Title
كتاب مبادي الوصول الى علم الاصول. غاية البادي في شرح المبادي / تأليف ركن الدين محمد بن علي بن محمد الجرجاني الغروي.
Transliterated Title
Kitāb Mabādī al-wuṣūl ilá ʻilm al-uṣūl. Ghāyat al-bādī fī sharḥ al-Mabādī / taʼlīf Rukn al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad al-Jurjānī al-Gharawī.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, New Series no. 874
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/9c67wq448
Publisher
[1620-1699?]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1620-1699
Extent
131 leaves : paper ; 210 x 149 (108-139 x 75-94) mm bound to 212 x 154 mm
Provenance
Three owners' stamps on leaf 2a.
References
Mach, R. & Ormsby, E.L. Handlist of Arabic manuscripts (New Series), no. 606, 249.
Brockelmann, C. GAL, II, 212 (no. 34); SII, 209; SII, 209 (no. 34, commentary b)
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Contents
1. fol. 2b-52a: Kitāb Mabādī al-wuṣūl ilá ʻilm al-uṣūl / Ibn al-Muṭahhar al-Ḥillī. Treatise on uṣūl al-fiqh.
2. fol. 53b-132b: Ghāyat al-bādī fī sharḥ al-Mabādī / Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī al-Jurjānī. Commentary on Ibn al-Muṭahhar al-Ḥillī's Mabādiʼ al-wuṣūl ilá ʻilm al-uṣūl. Incomplete at end; breaks off in baḥth 9 (fī al-istiṣḥāb).
Notes
Ms. composite codex.
Incipit: [كتاب مبادي الوصول] الحمد لله المتفرد بالازلية ... اما بعد فهذا کتاب مبادي الوصول الى علم الاصول -- [غاية البادئ] نحمدك اللهم نفتتح الکلام وبشكرك يا علام
Title from texts 1 and 2.
Manuscript erroneously foliated beginning on the front flyleaf. Record follows erroneous foliation.
Layout: 9-24 lines per page.
Description: Both texts written on glazed, laid European paper. Rubrication and catchwords. Text 1 has extensive marginal and interlinear notes. Damp-staining, mainly marginal; upper edge moldered. Leaf 2a contains the last page of another text.
Origin: Text 1, 1030 H [1620 or 1621], by Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī ibn Yaḥyā [?] ibn Sālim al-Manṣūrī (leaf 52a). Text 2, likely late 17th century.
Binding Note
Full black leather with yellow paper doublures; marbled flyleaf.

Physical Characteristics

File Count
143

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

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