Abstract: "Commentary on al-Shahīd al-Awwal's al-Risālah al-naflīyah."Binding note: Full maroon leather with violet paper doublures; spine and edges repaired.Ms. codex.Title from leaf 2b, line 12.Manuscript erroneously foliated beginning on the front flyleaf. Record follows erroneous foliation.Physical description: 17 lines per page; written in naskh in black on glazed, laid Arabic paper. Rubrication and catchwords. Damp-staining, mainly marginal; a few repairs.Origin: 25 Ramaḍān 990 H 23 October 1582, by Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī al-ʻĀmilī al-Shāmī (184b).Incipit: الحمد لله الذي شرع لنا معالم دينه الفرضية و النفلية و شرح صدورنا بلمعة من بيان دروس الاحكام التكليفية
Abstract: "First part of a commentary on al-Shahīd al-Awwal's treatise on Shiʻite lawAbstract: up to Kitāb al-ijārah."Binding note: Full brown leather with blind-tooled fillets.Ms. codex.Title from colophon, leaf 227b.Manuscript erroneously foliated beginning on the front flyleaf. Record follows erroneous foliation.Physical description: 26 lines per page; written in small nastaʻliq in black on glazed, laid Arabic paper. Headings in red; text of the Lumʻah overlined in red. Rubrication ends on leaf 210b. Catchwords and marginal notes. Some staining and paper repairs; some loss of text on leaves 219-227.Origin: Rabīʻ II 1113 H September 1701, by Ibn Muḥammad Kāẓim Ṭihrānī (leaf 227b).Incipit: الحمد لله الذي شرح صدورنا بلمعة من شرايع الاسلام كافية في بيان الخطاب ونور قلوبنا من لوامع دروس الاحكام
Abstract: Commentary on al-Alfīyah fī al-ṣalāh al-yawmīyah of al-Shahīd al-Awwal.Binding note: Full red leather.Ms. codex.Title from leaf 2b, line 9.Manuscript erroneously foliated beginning on the first flyleaf. Record follows erroneous foliation.Physical description: 22 lines per page; written in naskh with elements of nastaʻliq on glazed, laid European paper. Catchwords; occasional use of rubrication. Leaves 2-6, 47-55, 62, 92-93, 97 are replacements, likely early 19th century. Leaf 62 is blank and there is a lacuna after leaf 61. Most of text block is detached from binding. Damp-stained; numerous paper repairs.Origin: Possibly 18th century. Copied by Muḥammad ʻAlī ibn al-Shaykh ʻAbbās al-Balāghī (leaf 97a).Incipit: الحمد لله الذي شرع فرائض الصلوة
Abstract: "Part 2 of al-Shahīd al-Thānī's commentary on Sharāʼiʻ al-IslāmAbstract: a well-known work on Shiite fiqh. Contains al-Qism al-thānī fī al-ʻuqūd."Binding note: Front cover detached and back cover missing. Front cover is lacquered: black central mandorla, pendants, and fillets decorated with gold and color on orange-red ground.Ms. codex.Title from colophon on leaf 213a.Physical description: 22 lines per page; written in small naskh in black on glazed, laid European paper. Catchwords; spaces left for rubrication not filled in. Inner margin damp-stained.Origin: Dhū al-Ḥijjah 1257 H January-February 1842, by Muḥammad Bāqir ibn Zayn al-ʻĀbidīn al-Ṭabāṭabāʼī al-Jandaqī (leaf 213a).Incipit: الحمد لله ... القسم الثاني في العقود وفيه خمسة عشر كتابا قوله كتاب التجارة
Abstract: "Holographic copy of a commentary on al-Shahīd al-Awwal's treatise on Shiʻite law. Complete through the middle of kitāb al-diyāt."Ms. codex.Title from leaf 1b, line 13.Physical description: Varying lines per page; written in small, cramped nasʻtaliq in black on tan glazed, laid Arabic paper. Headings in red; text of the Lumʻah overlined in red. Catchwords and marginal corrections. Some staining, mainly marginal; outer edges of leaves 1-6, 173-175 moldered.Origin: Holograph; part 1 dated 6 Jumādá II 956 H 2 July 1549 (leaf 99a).Incipit: الحمد لله الذي شرح صدورنا بلمعة من شرائع الاسلام كافية في بيان الخطاب ونور قلوبنا من لوامع دروس الاحكام
Abstract: "First part of a commentary on al-Shahīd al-Awwal's treatise on Shiʻite law. Complete through kitāb al-musāqāt."Binding note: Loose in brown leather folder.Ms. codex.Title from leaf 1b, line 9.Physical description: 19-21 lines per page; written in small naskh in black on cream glazed, laid Arabic paper. Headings in large script; text of the Lumʻah overlined in red. Catchwords and marginal notes. Some staining and paper repairs; edges are ragged. Disbound.Origin: Shawwāl 1177 H April 1764 (leaf 223a).Incipit: الحمد لله الذي شرح صدورنا بلمعة من شرايع الاسلام كافية في بيان الخطاب ونور قلوبنا من لوامع دروس الاحكام
Abstract: Treatise on prayer. The opening lines of the text begin in the margin of leaf 3b, and there is a lacuna between those lines and the text at the center of the page. The text is preceded by notes and extracts on leaves 2a-3a and followed by the same on leaves 54a-54b.Ms. codex.Title from leaf 1a by a later hand.Manuscript erroneously foliated beginning on front flyleaf. Record follows erroneous foliation.Physical description: 17 lines per page; written in neat naskh in black on glazed, laid Arabic paper. Rubrication and catchwords; marginal notes. Damp-staining, mainly marginal.Origin: Text completed on 9 Dhū al-Ḥijjah 951 H 21 February 1545 (leaf 53b). This copy likely 17th century.Incipit: الحمد لله مطلع من اختارهExplicit: فان ذلك منه وبه وله وهو حسبنا و نعم الوکيل
Abstract: "Volume five of al-Shahīd al-Thānī's commentary on Sharāʼiʻ al-IslāmAbstract: a well-known work on Shiite fiqh. Contains kitāb al-ʻitq - kitāb al-luqṭah; list of contents on fol. 1a."Binding note: Paper over pasted boards with leather spine and edges.Ms. codex.Title supplied by cataloger.On fol. 1a: "Jild-i khāmis" and "Jild-i z̲akhīrah ... sharīf ..."Physical description: 25 lines per page; written in small naskh in black on tan glazed, laid Arabic paper. Rubrication and catchwords; a few marginal notes. Light staining and smudging; a few paper repairs. In excellent condition.Origin: Copy completed on 2 Shawwāl 968 H 16 June 1561 by Aḥmad ibn Rafīʻ al-Ṭarafī (fol. 233a).Incipit: كتاب العتق هو لغة الخلوص ومنه سمي البيت الشريف عتيقا والخيل الجياد عتاقا وشرعا خلوص المملوك الآدمي او بعضه من الرق بالنسبة الى مطلق العتق
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: "Part 2 of al-Shahīd al-Thānī's commentary on Sharāʼiʻ al-IslāmAbstract: a well-known work on Shiite fiqh. Contains al-Qism al-thānī fī al-ʻuqūd."Binding note: Full brown leather with blind-stamped central mandorla, pendants, and fillets.Ms. codex.Title from leaf 1b.Physical description: 25 lines per page; written in small naskh in black on tan glazed, laid Arabic paper. Rubrication and catchwords. Light staining.Origin: Likely mid-19th century.Incipit: الحمد لله ... القسم الثاني في العقود وفيه خمسة عشر كتابا قوله كتاب التجارة
