Item Summary

Treatise on Shiʻite law in 79 unnumbered bāb; missing first leaf.

Descriptive Information

Title
نزهة الناظر في الجمع بين الاشباه والنظائر.
Transliterated Title
Nuzhat al-nāẓir fī al-jamʻ bayna al-ashbāh wa-al-naẓāʼir.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 2320Y
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/m900nx035
Publisher
[15--?]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1500
Format
Manuscript
Extent
81 leaves : paper ; 200 x 114 (133 x 61) mm
Provenance
Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
Source Acquisition
Gift; Robert Garrett (Class of 1897), 1942.
References
Mach, R. Catalogue of Arabic manuscripts (Yahuda section), no. 1559
Āghā Buzurg. Dharīʻah (1936-), XXIV, 125 (no. 636)
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from leaf 2a, line 13.
Physical description: 16 lines per page; written in small, neat naskh in black on cream glazed, laid Arabic paper. Text framed in blue and gold. Rubrication and catchwords; a few marginal notes. Light staining; first leaf detached.
Origin: According to Mach, likely 16th century. Copied by Ḥusayn ibn Manṣūr al-Sabzawārī (leaf 81b).
Incipit (first faṣl): فصل العبادة کل فعل مشروع لا يجري الا بنية التعظيم

Discovery Information

Subject
Islamic law—Early works to 1800
Shīʻah—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton

Physical Characteristics

File Count
85

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

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