Item Summary

Part of a commentary on al-Muḥaqqiq al-Ḥillī's al-Mukhtaṣar al-nāfiʻ, comprising Kitāb al-ṭahārah (leaves 224b-411a) through Kitāb al-ṣalāh (leaves 1b-222b).

Descriptive Information

Title
هذا كتاب شرح كبير / من تصنيفات آقا سيد علي.
Transliterated Title
Hādhā Kitāb Sharḥ kabīr / min taṣnīfāt Āqā Sayyid ʻAlī.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, New Series no. 1251
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/0v838316j
Publisher
[1825-1840]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1825-1840
Extent
411 leaves : paper ; 209 x 147 (146 x 94) mm bound to 210 x 148 mm
Provenance
Identical owner's stamps on leaves 1a, 222b, 224b, 411a.
References
Mach, R. & Ormsby, E.L. Handlist of Arabic manuscripts (New Series), no. 1295
Brockelmann, C. GAL, SI, 712 (commentary h)
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Ms. codex.
Caption title from leaf 224b.
Physical description: 20-21 lines per page; written in small naskh in black by two hands on glazed, laid European paper. Kitāb al-ṭahārah is rubricated; spaces left for rubrication in Kitāb al-ṣalāh are not filled in. Catchwords and marginal notes. Kitāb al-ṣalāh is bound before Kitāb al-ṭahārah. Occasional staining, last leaf detached.
Origin: Kitāb al-ṭahārah, Dhū al-Ḥijjah 1255 H [February 1840], by Muḥammad Yūsuf al-Riḍawī al-Kāshānī (leaf 411a); Kitāb al-ṣalāh, 23 Rabīʻ I 1241 H [5 November 1825], by ʻAlī Akbar ibn Muḥammad Ḥusayn al-Kāshānī (leaf 222b).
Incipit (leaf 224b): الحمد لله ... کتاب الطهارة و ارکانه اربعة الاول في المياه
Binding Note
Full black leather; back cover detached.

Physical Characteristics

File Count
415

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/fa80da9e-b6c0-4553-9173-89f5cc50a75c/manifest