Item Summary

First half of a treatise on Shiʻite law.

Descriptive Information

Title
كتاب مفاتيح الشرائع والاحكام في مغرفة الحلال والحرام / تصنيف الثقة الباهر والبحر الماهر رئيس علماء الشيعة محمد المرتضى الملقب بمحسن.
Transliterated Title
Kitāb Mafātīḥ al-sharāʼiʻ wa-al-aḥkām fī maghrifat al-ḥalāl wa-al-ḥarām / taṣnīf al-thiqah al-bāhir wa-al-baḥr al-māhir raʼīs ʻulamāʼ al-Shīʻah Muḥammad al-Murtaḍá al-mulaqqab bi-Muḥsin.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, New Series no. 39
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/c247dv70d
Publisher
[1791]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1791
Format
Manuscript
Extent
193 leaves : paper ; 211 x 161 (160 x 98) mm bound to 216 x 165 mm
Provenance
Note dated 1243 H [1827 or 1828] on leaf 1b.
References
Mach, R. & Ormsby, E.L. Handlist of Arabic manuscripts (New Series), no. 615
Brockelmann, C. GAL, SII, 584 (no. 3)
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from leaf 1b.
Physical description: 18 lines per page; written in neat naskh on cream and blue glazed, laid European paper. Rubrication and catchwords; marginal and interlinear notes. Some staining.
Origin: 22 Rabīʻ II 1206 H [19 December 1791] (leaf 193a).
Incipit: الحمد لله الذي هدانا لدين الاسلام و سن لنا الشرايع والاحكام
Binding Note
Full orange-brown leather with gold-stamped central mandorla and pendants and blind-tooled fillets.

Discovery Information

Subject
Islam—Rituals—Early works to 1800
Islamic law—Interpretation and construction—Early works to 1800
Shīʻah—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton

Physical Characteristics

File Count
202

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/65bbc74b-8176-49dc-b5ad-47f6464078da/manifest