Abstract: Treatise on uṣūl al-fiqh.Binding note: Full brown leather with blind-stamped central mandorla, pendants, and fillets; black paper doublures.Ms. codex.Spine title.Manuscript erroneously foliated beginning on the second leaf. Record follows erroneous foliation.Physical description: 23 lines per page; written in nastaʻliq with elements of shikastah in black on glazed, laid European paper. Rubrication and catchwords. Some damp-staining, particularly toward end of manuscript, causing blurring of text on a few pages. A few repairs, with loss of text along the lower edge on leaf 6.Incipit: القسم الاول في قواعد الاصول الفقهية و فىه مقاصد المقصد الاول في الحکم
Abstract: Two glosses on Shiʻite law texts.Binding note: Three-quarter leather with marbled paper covers; salmon paper doublures.Ms. codex.Title from leaves 3b, 36b.Physical description: 21 lines per page; written in small naskh (text 1) and nastaʻliq (text 2) on glazed, laid Arabic paper. Leaves 51-81 dyed yellow. Rubrication and catchwords; a few marginal notes. First leaf detached. Marginal damp-staining.Origin: Text 1, 8 Shaʻbān 1020 H 16 October 1611 (leaf 36a). Text 2, 3 Jumādá II 1022 H 21 July 1613, by Ibn Muḥammad ... ʻAlī Riḍā (leaf 81b).1. leaves 3b-36a: Ḥāshiyat Shaykh Zayn al-Dīn Shahīd Thānī bar Alfīyah.2. leaves 36b-81a: Ḥāshiyat Shaykh ʻAlī bar Mukhtaṣar nāfiʻ.
Abstract: Treatise on Shiʻite fiqh, preceded and followed by notes and extracts on leaves 1a-2a, 105a-108b.Binding note: Full black leather with blind-stamped central mandorla.Ms. codex.Title from leaf 2b, line 7.Physical description: 21 lines per page; written in nastaʻliq in black on glazed, laid Arabic paper. Rubrication and catchwords; extensive interlinear and marginal notes. Extensive damp staining. Spine is broken and a few leaves are detached.Origin: 10 Rajab 960 H 22 June 1553 in Mashhad, by Ibrāhīm ibn ʻAlī al-Ḥasanī al-Kūrasarjī ? al-Ṭabasī (leaf 104b).Incipit: الحمد لله المتفرد بالقدم والدوام المتنزه عن مشابهة الاعراض والاجسام
Abstract: "Gloss on al-Shahīd al-Thānī's commentary on al-Lumʻah al-Dimashqīyah."Binding note: Full black leather with blind-stamped central mandorla, pendants, and fillets; yellow paper doublures.Ms. codex.Title from leaf 1a by a later hand.Physical description: 20 lines per page; written in small nastaʼliq in black on glazed, laid Arabic paper. Rubrication and catchwords; marginal notes.Origin: Text completed Ramaḍān 1104 H May-June 1693; this copy completed Ramaḍān 1238 H May-June 1823 in Iṣfahān, by Ibn Muḥammad ʻAlī al-Lāhijī (leaf 228b).Incipit: الحمد لله ... في الحاشية ما کان متعلقة عاما اي من الافعال العامة
Abstract: "Commentary on the Kitāb al-muʼāmalāt of Ibn al-Muṭahhar al-Ḥillī's Qawāʻid al-aḥkām fī maʻrifat al-ḥalāl wa-al-ḥarām."Binding note: Limp black leather with blind-stamped central floral design, pendants, and fillets; blue paper doublures.Ms. codex.Title from leaf 1a.Physical description: Generally 30 lines per page; written in small, cramped naskh with elements of nastaʻliq in black on glazed, laid European paper. Catchwords. Mild staining and a few repairs.Origin: 23 Muḥarram 1255 H 8 April 1839, by ʻAlī ibn Ḥusayn al-Qazwīnī (leaf 57a).Incipit: الحمد لله الذي اشتق نور الوجود من ظلمة العدم
Abstract: "Commentary on ʻAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad al-Tūnī's al-Wāfiyah."Binding note: Limp maroon leather with blind-stamped fillets.Ms. codex.Spine title.Manuscript erroneously foliated beginning on the fifth leaf. Record follows erroneous foliation.Physical description: 22 lines per page; written in small nastaʻliq in black on machine-made paper. Hand and paper change on leaf 96a. Rubrication; catchwords in second half of manuscript. Marginal notes. Mild staining. First four and last four leaves blank.Origin: Dhū al-Qaʻdah 1245 H April-May 1830, by Ḥusayn ibn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad (leaf 211b).Incipit: الحمد لله الذي اوضح مناهج الدين ... قوله قلت انکار التبادر اقول معنى کون التبادر
Abstract: Collection of two texts on Shiʻite fiqh.Binding note: Full brown leather with blind-stamped central mandorla; brown leather doublures; edges and spine repaired.Contents: 1. fol. 1a-57b: Manāhij Shaykh Bahāʼī / Bahāʼ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn al-ʻĀmilī.Contents: 2. fol. 58b-185b: Maʻālim al-dīn wa-malādhdh al-mujtahidīn / al-Ḥasan Ibn al-Shahīd al-Thānī.Ms. codex.Title from leaves 1a, 58a; also present on partially torn spine labels.Physical description: Text 1, 8 lines per page; written in neat naskh in black on cream glazed, laid Arabic paper. Text 2, 14 lines per page; written in nastaʻliq in black on cream glazed, laid Arabic paper. Both texts: Rubrication and catchwords; marginal notes. Some staining and paper repairs.Origin: Likely 17th century.
Abstract: Collection of two texts on Shiʻite fiqh.Binding note: Limp black leather.Contents: 1. leaves 1(bis)b-64b: Hādhihi Kitāb al-Wāfiyah fī al-uṣūl / ʻAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad al-Tūnī.Contents: 2. leaves 65b-103a: Fawāʼid al-ʻatīq / Muḥammad Bāqir ibn Muḥammad Akmal al-Bahbahānī.Ms. codex.Manuscript erroneously foliated beginning on the sixth leaf. Record follows erroneous foliation. First four leaves contain notes and extracts or are blank.Physical description: Text 1, 22 lines per page; written in naskh in black. Text 2, 26 lines per page; written in small naskh in black; script changes to nastaʻliq on leaf 90a. Entire manuscript on glazed, laid European paper. Rubrication and catchwords. Mild staining; upper outer corner moldered.Origin: Text 1 dated 1221 H 1806 or 1807 (leaf 64b). Text 2 likely completed around the same time.
Abstract: Treatise on Shiʻite law, preceded by a fihrist on leaf 1a.Binding note: Full brown leather with blind-tooled fillets.Ms. codex.Title from leaf 1b, line 9.Physical description: Varying lines per page; written in naskh and nastaʻliq in black on glazed, laid Arabic paper. Rubrication and catchwords. Numerous replacements of full or partial leaves. Mild staining and a few repairs.Origin: Juzʼ 1 completed 2 Shawwāl 940 H 16 April 1534, by Nūr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ṣadr al-Dīn Muḥammad al-Harawī (leaf 199b).Incipit: الحمد لله الذي انطق السنتنا بحمده
Abstract: "Commentary on Ibn al-Shahīd al-Thānī's Maʻālim al-dīn wa-malādhdh al-mujtahidīnAbstract: a treatise on uṣūl al-fiqh."Binding note: Full golden-brown and teal leather.Ms. codex.Title from front flyleaf.Physical description: 20 lines per page; written in small nastaʻliq in black on glazed, laid European paper. Rubrication and catchwords. Leaf 15 detached. A few tears and repairs and mild staining.Origin: Likely first half of the 19th century.Incipit: والفقه في اللغة الفهم آه انما ابتدأ بتعرىف الفقه دون اصول الفقه کما هو المعروف فى کتب الاصول لان وضع الکتاب انما هو في اللغة
Binding note: Limp golden-brown leather.Contents: 1. leaves 2b-41b: Risālah fī salāt al-musāfir wa-mā yataʻalliqu bi-hā.Contents: 2. leaves 43b-54b: Risālah fī bayān baʻḍ min al-masāʼil al-mutaʻalliqah bi-al-daʻāwá.Contents: 3. leaves 59b-66b: Risālah fī bayān al-ḥalāl wa-al-ḥarām.Ms. codex.Title from leaf 1a.Physical description: 25 lines per page; written in miniscule nastaʻliq in black on glazed, laid Arabic paper. Rubrication and catchwords.Origin: Text 1, 1 Rabīʻ I 1126 H 17 March 1714 (leaf 41b). Remaining texts likely completed around the same time. According to note on leaf 2a, texts are in the hand of the author."Holographic copy of several of the author's writings on Shiʻite fiqh."
Manuscript. Persian and Arabic. Caption title. Scribe not identified. Gift of A.A. Kachif, Nov. 20, 1930. Written in Iran. Paper; thick, polished light cream color paper with no watermarks; elaborate floral unwan in gold, blue, red, and white with wide borders of a similar floral pattern and similar colors of fol. 1b and 2a; an outer border of two very thin lines accompanies all the text on facing pages; the text itself is enclosed in a border of black, white, gold, and red; floral section headings in gold, red and blue; lines of the text are separated by a cloud design in gold; text in black ink with small red overlining of some letters; catchwords. Nastaʻliq; in written area 13 x 7.5 cm. Fol. 1b-24a. Library of Congress. Persian manuscript, M100. Binding; dark brown half leather with lacquered papier-mâché floral design on a copper colored background surrounded by contrasting green, red and green borders also with floral designs; inner sides of cover also lacquered with a paintings of dark pink roses on a brown background. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress website.