Abstract: Collection of Shiʻite texts.Binding note: Limp brown leather with blind-tooled fillets.Contents: 1. leaves 1(bis)b-11b: Treatise on fundamental Shiʻite beliefs.Contents: 2. leaves 12b-151b: al-Tuḥfah al-Qiwāmīyah fī fiqh al-Imāmīyah / Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad Mahdī al-Sayfī.Contents: 3. leaves 154a-165b: Nuqilat min Miṣbāḥ al-Kafʻamī. Selections from Junnat al-amān al-wāqiyah wa-jannat al-īmān al-bāqiyah, a collection of prayers and devotions.Contents: 4. leaves 168b-169a: Marriage formula.Ms. codex.Title from text 2.Manuscript erroneously foliated beginning on second leaf. Record follows erroneous foliation.Physical description: Text 1, 13 lines per page; written in naskh in black on machine-made paper; rubrication and catchwords. Text 2, 19 lines per page, in two columns; written in naskh in black on machine-made paper; rubrication and catchwords. Occasional staining.Origin: Text 2, Shaʻbān 1259 H September 1843, by Muḥammad ʻAlī ibn al-Ḥājj Mullā Abū ! al-Qāsim al-Sumdānī ? (leaf 151b). Text 1 likely written at a somewhat later date.
