Item Summary

Treatise on Shiʻite fiqh.

Descriptive Information

Title
هذا كتاب ارشاد الاذهان.
Transliterated Title
Hādhā Kitāb Irshād al-adhhān.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, New Series no. 602
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/qj72p9766
Publisher
[1658]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1658
Format
Manuscript
Extent
150 leaves : paper ; 216 x 171 (173 x 103) mm bound to 227 x 178 mm
Provenance
On leaf 1a, note dated 1282 H [1865 or 1866]. On leaf 150a, note of sale and stamp of Ibn Sayyid Mīrzā Mīr Muḥammad Māzandarānī.
References
Mach, R. & Ormsby, E.L. Handlist of Arabic manuscripts (New Series), no. 350
Brockelmann, C. GAL, II, 211 (no. 3); S II, 206
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from leaf 1a.
Physical description: 17 lines per page; written in neat naskh in black on tan glazed, laid Arabic paper. Rubrication and catchwords; marginal and interlinear notes. Damp-staining and a few repairs.
Origin: 2 Rajab 1068 H [5 April 1658], by Ibn Muḥammad Muḥammad Ashraf al-Anṣārī (leaf 367a).
Incipit: الحمد لله المتفرد بالقدم والدوام المتنزه عن مشابهة الاعراض والاجسام
Binding Note
Half leather with blue paper covers; orange pastedowns and flyleaves.

Discovery Information

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

Physical Characteristics

File Count
157

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

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