Item Summary

Collection of a Shiʻite legal treatise and Shaykhī texts.

Descriptive Information

Title
هذا كتاب الفوائد الاثنى عشرية ... [الخ.]
Transliterated Title
Hādhā Kitāb al-Fawāʼid al-ithná ʻasharīyah ... [etc.].
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, New Series no. 1102
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/v692t8815
Publisher
[1832 or 1833]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1832-1833
Format
Manuscript
Extent
44 leaves : paper ; 211 x 153 (158 x 90) mm bound to 212 x 155 mm
References
Mach, R. & Ormsby, E.L. Handlist of Arabic manuscripts (New Series), 213, 1053, 1126.
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Contents
1. leaves 2b-37b: Hādhā Kitāb al-Fawāʼid al-ithná ʻasharīyah / Muḥammad Mahdī ibn Muḥammad Jaʻfar al-Mūsawī. Collection of fawāʼid concerning contracts, particularly those for marriage and divorce.
2. leaves 38a-39a: Risālah mūjazah fī bayān dāʼirat al-ʻaql wa-al-jahl lil-ʻāqil al-mutadarrib. Commentary on a secton from an unidentified philosophical treatise; contains two circular diagrams.
3. leaves 40a-43b: Risālah fī bayān qawlihi taʻālá "qāba qawsayni aw adná" / ʻAlī ibn Naqī al-Aḥsāʼī. Shaykhī commentary on Qurʼān 53:9.
4. leaves 43a-44a: Risālah fī bayān ʻālam al-barzakh ijmālan wa-ikhtiṣāṣan / Aḥmad ibn Zayn al-Dīn al-Aḥsāʼī. Shaykhī treatise on eschatology.
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from text 1.
Layout: 23 lines per page.
Description: Written in black on glazed, laid European paper. Rubrication and catchwords; marginal notes. Damp-stained. Leaves 19-20 are replacements.
Origin: Text 3 dated 1248 H [1832 or 1833] (leaf 43a). Other texts likely completed around the same time.
Incipit: [فوائد الاثنى عشرية] فوائد الاثنى عشرية -- [رسالة في بيان قوله] الحمد لله رب العالمين ... وبعد فيقول علي نقي ابن احمد بن زين الدين الاحسائي اني لما رأيت کثيرا من المفسرين -- [رسالة في بيان عالم] اعلم ان البرزخ هو الحائل بين الشيئين و المراد به الحائل بين الروح و الجسد
Binding Note
Stiffened black leather with blind-stamped central mandorla, fillets, and pendants; green paper doublures.

Discovery Information

Subject
Contracts (Islamic law)
Shīʻah
Islamic philosophy
Qurʼan Sūrat al-Najm 9—Commentaries
Shaykhī—Doctrines
Islamic eschatology
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Blind tooled bindings

Physical Characteristics

File Count
49

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/23d217d4-7d1a-493d-8d7e-adb5ce4304a0/manifest