Item Summary

Commentary on Bahāʼ al-Dīn al-ʻĀmilī's Zubdat al-uṣūl, a treatise on uṣūl al-fiqh.

Descriptive Information

Title
هذا كتاب شرح جواد.
Transliterated Title
Hādhā Kitāb Sharḥ Jawād.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, New Series no. 698
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/44558g90q
Publisher
[1838]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1838
Extent
275 leaves : paper ; 203 x 147 (143 x 89) mm bound to 208 x 149 mm
Provenance
Owner's note on leaf 1a; several stamps on leaves 2b-3a, 274b.
References
Mach, R. & Ormsby, E.L. Handlist of Arabic manuscripts (New Series), no. 253
Brockelmann, C. GAL, SII, 597 (no. 17, commentary b)
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from leaf 2b.
Physical description: 19 lines per page; written in neat naskh in black on glazed, laid European paper. Rubrication and catchwords. Occasional staining. Front cover and first two leaves detached.
Origin: 10 Dhū al-Ḥijjah 1253 H [7 March 1838], by Ibn Ḥājjī ʻAlī Akbar Muḥammad Mahdī al-Hamadānī (leaf 274b).
Incipit: نحمدك يا من وقفنا لسلوك طريق العمل ... وبعد فيقول ... محمد المشتهر بالجواد الکاظمي ... لا يخفي على احد شرف علم الاصول
Binding Note
Full brown leather with gold-stamped central mandorla and pendants; yellow paper doublures.

Physical Characteristics

File Count
280

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/905689c0-fa69-47a9-ab73-c625591fb729/manifest