Abstract: Collection of texts on Shiʻite fiqh.Binding note: Limp orange-brown leather with blind-stamped fillets and blind-tooled central star.Contents: 1. leaves 1b-10a: al-Riḍāʻīyah / al-Muḥaqqiq al-Thānī.Contents: 2. leaves 10b-15b: al-ʻAwīṣ / Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Mufīd.Contents: 3. leaves 16a-87b: Sharḥ ʻalá risālah fī al-ṭahārah.Contents: 4. leaves 88a-212b: Sharḥ Alfīyat Shahīd / al-Shahīd al-Thānī.Ms. composite codex.Physical description: Texts 1-2, 21 lines per page; written in casual naskh in brown on glazed, laid European paper; rubrication and catchwords. Text 3, 21 lines per page; written in small naskh in black on glazed, laid European paper; rubrication and catchwords. Text 4, 21 lines per page; written in small, casual naskh in brown (switches to black on leaf 198b) on glazed, laid European paper; rubrication and catchwords. Upper edge damp-stained and moldered. Leaves 1-15, 214 detached.Origin: Text 1, 6 Jumādá II 1088 H 6 August 1677 (leaf 10a). Text 4, 8 Jumādá II 1088 H (8 August 1677), by Saʻd al-Dīn ibn Muḥammad ibn Quṭb al-Dīn ibn Tamām al-Jazāʼirī (leaf 212b). Remaining texts likely completed around the same time.
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Manuscript. Arabic and Persian. Title supplied by cataloger. Written by "Ibn ʻAlī". Gift of Cyrus Ebrahim Zadeh, Nov. 9, 2009. Written in Iran? Text proceeded by 2 lithographed fragments pasted front and back; the second one, facing first page of manuscript, is lithograph of Sūrat al-fātiḥah from unidentified edition of the Qurʼān. Paper: yellowish, polished cream color laid paper with horizontal chain line and no visible watermarks; black ink with rubrication; interlinear Persian translation in cursive Naskh; catchwords. Naskh; 11 lines in written area 15.5 x 9 cm. Folio 1b-337a; 337b-338 notes and a poem. Library of Congress. Manuscript, [unnumbered]. Binding: black leather with embossed gold center medallions front and back, spine repaired, rebacked in tan leather.
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: Two texts on Shiʻite law.Binding note: Limp black leather with blind-stamped fillets.Contents: 1. fol. 1b-88b: Fawāʼid ʻatīq / Muḥammad Bāqir ibn Muḥammad Akmal al-Bahbahānī.Contents: 2. fol. 89b-113b: Kitāb Zubdat Shaykh Bahāʼī fī al-uṣūl / Bahāʼ al-Dīn al-ʻĀmilī.Ms. composite codex.Title from leaf 1b.Physical description: Text 1, 17 lines per page; written in naskh in black on glazed, laid European paper; rubrication and catchwords. Text 2, 15 lines per page; written in naskh in black on blue glazed, laid European paper; rubrication and catchwords. Mild staining; edges moldered.Origin: Text 1, 17 Rabīʻ II 1240 H 9 December 1824 in Iṣfahān, by Qurbān ʻAlī ibn Ḥājjī Muḥammad Rafīʻ al-... ? (leaf 88b). Text 2, 4 Rabīʻ I 1240 H 27 October 1824, by Muḥammad Ḥasan (leaf 113b); likely in Iran.
Abstract: Collection of texts on a variety of topics.Binding note: Full black leather with blind-stamped central mandorla, pendants, and fillets; salmon paper doublures.Contents: 1. leaves 1b-17a: Kitāb Balad al-amīn / Jaʻfar ibn Abī Isḥāq al-Kashfī.Contents: 2. leaves 19b-111b: Kitāb al-Iqtirāḥ fī ʻilm uṣūl al-naḥw / al-Suyūṭī.Contents: 3. leaves 111b-113b: Risālah al-ʻAḍudīyah / ʻAḍud al-Dīn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Aḥmad al-Ījī.Contents: 4. leaves 113b-121a: Risālah al-qawsīyah / Ismāʻīl ibn ʻAbbād ibn Wazīrān al-Iṣfahānī.Contents: 5. leaves 121a-123a: Risālat al-sikkīn / Taqī al-Dīn Abū Bakr ibn ʻAlī ibn Ḥijjah al-Ḥamawī.Contents: 6. leaves 123a-126b: Risālah fī fāʼ al-faṣīḥah.Contents: 7. leaves 126b-143b: Risālah fī madḥ al-Sulṭān.Contents: 8. leaves 147b-160b: Risālah fī bayān ṣiyagh al-ʻuqūd wa-al-īqāʻāt.Contents: 9. leaves 160b-162a: Risālah fī al-jadhr al-aṣamm.Contents: 10. leaves 163a-170b: Tafsīr Sūrat al-Sajdah.Contents: 11. leaf 171a: Exchange between the Caliph al-Maʼmūn and Imam al-Riḍā concerning ʻAlī.Ms. composite codex.Title from text 1.Physical description: Texts 1-7, 15 lines per page; written in large naskh in black on grayish glazed, laid European paper. Rubrication and catchwords; text 1 in two columns. Texts 8-11 are written in black on glazed, laid European paper. Text 8, 22 lines per page, written in small naskh with rubrication and catchwords and a few marginal notes. Text 9, varying lines per page, written in shikastah with catchwords. Texts 10-11, 20 lines per page, written in small naskh with catchwords. Outer edge moldered.Origin: Text 1, 21 Ṣafar 1244 H 2 September 1828 in Iṣfahān (leaf 17a). Text 4, 24 Rabīʻ I 1244 H 4 October 1828 (leaf 113b). Text 7, 3 Rabīʻ II 1244 H 13 October 1828 (leaf 143b). Texts 1-7 copied by the same scribe. Text 8, 1243 H 1827 or 1828 (leaf 160b).
Abstract: "Portion of a treatise on Ḥanafī lawAbstract: a summary of the author's al-Muḥīṭ al-Burhānī fī al-fiqh al-NuʻmānīAbstract: comprising the end of Kitāb al-Ṣarf (from al-Faṣl al-ʻashrūn fī al-itiṣnāʻ) to Kitāb al-Iqrār. The ms. comprises three distinct partsAbstract: written in different scripts (fol. 1b-32a ; 33a-201b ; 202a-381a)."Binding note: Brown leather over paper pasteboards for upper and lower covers. Large blind stamped central mandorla with outer border consisting of blind tooled fillets and a s-shape running pattern. Spine damaged. Paper pastedown. The paper of the pasteboard is perfectly visible due to the damage yto the upper cover.Ms. codex.Title from fol. (i)a.Fol. 1b-32a are smaller pieces of light cream paper with laid and chain lines visible, inlaid in a border of light cream paper with laid lines and pulp visible (see in particular, fol. 31-32), written in medium small round elegant naskh in black ink with use of red, with 31 lines to the page (written surface: 185 x 115 mm.). Fol. 33a-201b are written in clear casual small naskh in black ink with use of red, with 37 lines to the page up to fol. 55a (written surface: 245 x 160 mm.), with a dramatic change at the end of fol. 55a on, apparently by the same hand however. From the end of fol. 55a on, thin casual naskh with element of taʻlīq in black ink with use of red, with 36 lines to the page (written surface 225 x 143 mm.) on European? glazed paper. Fol. 202a-381a written in clear medium small naskh in black ink with use of red, with 35 lines per page (writing surface 220 x 155 mm.), on dark cream paper with laid and chain lines visible. Table of contents on fol. (i)b-(ii)b. Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the upper cover: "222". Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the pastedown of the upper cover: "Ḥāʼ 261".Copy of the first part completed on 7 Shaʻbān 959 July 29, 1552 (or 957 August 21, 1550) by ʻAlī ibn ---?, on behalf of ("bi-rasm") al-Shaykh al-Imām al-ʻālim al-ʻallāmah ... ---?, muftī of Damascus and khaṭīb in the Jāmiʻ al-Umawī (colophon, fol. 201b). Note dated 956 H. 1549 on fol. 319a.Incipit: الفصل العشرون فى الاستصناع يجب ان يعلم ان الاستصناع جايز في كل ما جري التعامل فيهExplicit: ولا ينبغى له ان يشهد على شي معين والله تعالى اعلم بالصواب تم كتاب الاقرار
Abstract: Four volumes of a large compendium of Shiʻite law. Volume 2 is missing at least one leaf at the beginning.Binding note: Volumes 1-2, full red leather with blind-stamped central mandorla, pendants, and fillets; yellow paper doublures. Volume 3, full red leather with blind-stamped central mandorla and pendants; spine and corners repaired. Volume 4, full red leather with blind-tooled fillets.Contents: Volumes 1-2: kitāb al-ṭahārah -- Volume 3: kitāb al-ṣalāh -- Volume 4: kitāb al-nikāḥ.Ms. codex.Volume 3 erroneously foliated beginning on the front flyleaf. Record follows erroneous foliation.Title from colophon, volume 2, leaf 234b.Physical description, volumes 1-2: 31 lines per page; written in small naskh in black on glazed, laid European paper. Catchwords; overlining in black. Spaces left for rubrication. Mild staining and a few paper repairs. First leaf of volume 1 is a replacement.Physical description, volume 3: 31 lines per page; written in miniscule naskh in black on glazed, laid European paper. Rubrication and catchwords. Mild staining and a few paper repairs.Physical description, volume 4: 24 lines per page; written in medium naskh in black on glazed, laid European paper. Catchwords. Mild staining.Origin: Volumes 1-2 copied by one hand, likely early 19th century. Volume 3 dated 3 Dhū al-Qaʻdah 1225 H 30 November 1810, by Ibn Rajab ʻAlī Khāmī ? Bābā-yi Samnānī (leaf 308b). Volume 4 dated 26 Rajab 1230 H 4 July 1815, by ʻAbd Allāh ibn ʻAlī ibn ʻAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad al-Maqābī vocalization? al-Awānī al-Majrānī vocalization? (leaf 288a).Incipit: الحمد لله الذي هدانا بواضح الدليل الى سبيل معادن العلم
Abstract: "Commentary on al-Muḥaqqiq al-Ḥillī's Mukhtaṣar al-nāfiʻ; incomplete at end."Binding note: Full black leather with blind-stamped central mandorla, pendants, and fillets; blue paper doublures.Ms. codex.Title from leaf 3b.Physical description: Part 1, 25 lines per page; written in small naskh with elements of nastaʻliq in black. Part 2, 25 lines per page; written in medium naskh in black. Entire manuscript on glazed, laid Arabic paper. Rubrication and catchwords; a few marginal notes. Edges moldered; marginal damp-staining and mildewing.Origin: Part 1, 29 Shawwāl 1059 H 5 November 1649, by Zayn al-Dīn ibn Muḥammad al-Jazāʻirī (leaf 145b). Part 2 by a different hand, likely around the same time.Incipit: الحمد لله المتفرد بالقدم و الکمال
Abstract: Collection of commentaries on doctrinal and legal texts.Binding note: Full brown leather with central mandorla and pendants blind-stamped on red paper and blind-stamped fillets; blue paper doublures.Contents: 1. leaves 1b-38b: Ḥāshiyat Mawlānā Sulṭān al-Muḥaqqiqīn ʻalá Maʻālim al-dīn wa-malādhdh al-mujtahidīn / Ḥusayn ibn Rafīʻ al-Sulṭān al-ʻUlamāʼ.Contents: 2. leaves 40b-67b: Taʻlīqāt ʻalá sharḥ ilāhīyāt al-Tajrīd / Muḥammad al-Khafrī.Contents: 3. leaves 68b-79b: Taʻlīq ḥawāshī ʻalá mabāḥith jawāhir al-Sharḥ al-jadīd lil-Tajrīd.Ms. composite codex.Title from text 1.Physical description, text 1: 23 lines per page; written in neat naskh in black on glazed, laid European paper. Catchwords. Leaves 1-24 appear to be replacements, written in shikastah with varying lines per page. Occasional damp-staining.Physical description, texts 2-3: 15-19 lines per page; written in nastaʻliq and naskh in black on blue glazed, laid European paper. Catchwords. Mild staining.Origin: Likely first half of the 19th century.
Abstract: Treatise on Islamic law followed by a commentary on the preface.Binding note: Full red leather with flap on front cover; gold-stamped fillets; blue leather doublures.Contents: 1. leaves 3a-5a, 6a-8b: Extracts and notes.Contents: 2. leaves 5b, 9a-354b: Kitāb Qawāʻid al-aḥkām fī maʻrifat al-ḥalāl wa-al-ḥarām / Ibn al-Muṭahhar al-Ḥillī.Contents: 3. leaves 355a-357a: Jāmiʻ al-fawāʼid fī sharḥ khuṭbat al-Qawāʻid / Fakhr al-Muḥaqqiqīn.Contents: 4. leaves 357a-360b: Extracts and notes.Ms. codex.Title from texts 2, 3.Manuscript erroneously foliated beginning on the first flyleaf. Record follows erroneous foliation.Physical description: Text 1, 25 lines per page; written in neat naskh in black on glazed, laid Arabic paper. Rubrication, catchwords, and vocalization; marginal notes. Text 2, varying lines per page; written in casual naskh in black on glazed, laid Arabic paper. Manuscript is damp-stained and mildewed, with a few repairs. Leaves 6-8 belong before leaf 5.Origin: Text 1, 3 Jumādá I, 758 H 24 April 1357, by Aḥmad ibn ʻAlī ibn Muḥsin al-Ḥusaynī (leaf 354b). Text 2 likely 17th century.
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.
Binding and script features: CiltsizPhysical description: 35 leaves, (9 lines)/ 25,5x16 cm.Paper type: Kremrengi, mıstarlı kağıtCalligraphic style: NaskhInk color: Siyah, tekrarı belirten kelimeler kırmızıNotes: Written in 9 lines per page. Harakāt Naskh script in black ink with repeated words in red. The cover is missingDescription of script: Yaprak sayısı : 35 / Satır sayısı : 9 / Yazı alanı boyutu : 115x70 mm / Kağıt boyutu : 252x160 mm / Yazmanın başı - sonu : 1b - 35a