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: Treatise on ritual prayer.Binding note: Full brown leather with blind-stamped fillets; back cover detached.Ms. codex.Caption title from leaf 1b.Physical description: 9 lines per page; written in neat naskh in black on glazed, laid European paper. Rubrication and catchwords; marginal and interlinear notes. Some staining.Origin: Original text, 10 Jumādá II 917 H 4 September 1511 in Mashhad (leaves 71b-72a); this copy, 29 Ramaḍān 951 H 14 December 1544 (leaf 72a).Incipit: الحمد لله الولي الحميد المبدئ المعيد ... وبعد فان التماس
Abstract: Collection of Shiʻite texts.Binding note: Limp black leather.Contents: 1. leaves 2(bis)b-36a: Risālah fī ḥujjīyat khabar al-wāḥid wa-al-ijmāʻ / Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Fattāḥ al-Sarāb.Contents: 2. leaves 36b-38b: Risālah fī al-ijmāʻ.Contents: 3. leaves 39a-53b: Persian treatise on ṣalāh. Incomplete at beginning and end; consists of at least three fuṣūl.Contents: 4. leaves 54a-58a: Arabic treatise of advice and admonishments. Incomplete at beginning.Contents: 5. leaves 58a-58b: Namāz-i sāʻat-i ghaflat. In Persian.Contents: 6. leaves 59a-61b: Manqūl min Kitāb Ḥadīqat al-Shīʻah / min taṣānīf ... Aḥmad al-Aradabīlī. In Persian.Contents: 7. leaves 63b-83b: al-Risālah al-qadīmah fī ithbāt al-wājib / Muḥammad ibn Asʻad al-Dawwānī.Ms. composite codex.Ms. erroneously foliated beginning on the third leaf. Record follows erroneous foliation.Physical description, texts 1-2: 21 lines per page; written in black on glazed, laid Arabic paper. Text 1 in small naskh and text 2 in nastaʻliq. Catchwords. Ragged edges and mild staining.Physical description, texts 3-6: 15 lines per page; written in neat naskh in black on glazed, laid Arabic paper. Rubrication and catchwords. Ragged edges and mild staining.Physical description, text 7: 21 lines per page; written in small nastaʻliq with elements of shikastah in black on glazed, laid Arabic paper. Catchwords and marginal notes. Marginal damp staining; several leaves have heavier water damage and are somewhat smudged.Origin: Text 1 completed in Ramaḍān 1105 H April-May 1694, by the author (leaf 36a); text 2 likely completed around the same time. Text 4 completed on 20 Rabīʻ I 1093 H 29 March 1682 (leaf 58a); texts 3, 5, 6 likely completed around the same time. Text 7 completed in 972 H 1564 or 1565 in Mashhad Imām al-Ḥusayn Karbalāʼ, by ʻAbd al-Ghafūr Māzandarānī (leaf 83b).
Fols. 4; 19.4 x 14.3 cm.; written surface 15.8 x 8.7 cm.; 25 lines to page; on glazed Arabic paper; in naskhi; with catchwords; entries in red.A tract in question and answer form discussing whether or not the periods of prayer as determined by astronomers agree with those of the jurists.Beg.: بسم الله ... ما تقول السادة الفقهاء أىمّة الدىن وعلماءColophon: تم بحمد الله سبحانه وتعالى وعونه وحسن توفىقه والحمد لله وحده. تمMS is good condition; paper binding.Acquired from Brill, Leyden, A.D. 1900.
Abstract: A tract in question and answer form discussing whether or not the periods of prayer as determined by astronomers agree with those of the jurists.Binding note: Covered with paper. Not currently sewn.Ms. codex.Title from title page (fol. 1a).Collation: Paper ; fol. 4 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.Layout: 25 lines per page.Description: Rubricated ; title page written in green, red, and black ink ; watermarks (coat-of-arms?) ; MS in good condition.Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم ما تقول السادة الفقهاء أيمة الدين وعلماء المسلمين وفقهم الله لطاعته اجمعين فيما قرره علما الاسلام ...Colophon: تم بحمد الله سبحانه وتعالى وعونه وحسن توفيقه والحمد لله وحده. تم