Princeton University, Oversize Islamic Manuscripts Garrett no. 295Lqb

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DS ID:

DS17526

Shelfmark:

Oversize Islamic Manuscripts Garrett no. 295Lqb

Title:

al-Kāfī / الکافي

al-Kāfī

Author:

Kulaynī, Muḥammad ibn Yaʻqūb, -941?

Date:

1600-1699

seventeenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

ara

Arabic WIKIDATA

Note:

Copied A.H. 1077 [A.D. 1667] by Muḥammad Ṭāhir ibn Āqā Jān al-Shūshtarī.
Fols. vol. I. 446, vol. IV, 402; 29.7 x 17.2 cm.; written surface 20.7 x 10.3cm.; 25 lines to page; on glazed Arabic parser; in naskhi; with catchwords entries in red.
Vols. I and IV of a comprehensive work on the Shīʻite system of theology and jurisprudence.
Beg.: بسم الله ... الحمد لله المحمود لنعمته المسبود لقدرته
Colophon: تم کتاب الروضة من الکتاب الکافي لابي جعفر محمد بن ىعقوب الکلىني رحمه الله تعالى. الحمد لله رب العالمىن والصلاة على خىر خلقه محمد وآله اجمعىن .على ىد العبد المذنب المحتاج الى ربه الغني محمد طاهر بن آقا جان الشوشتري غفر الله له ولوالدىه بحق محمد وآل محمد في تارىخ شهر شعبان المعظم سنة سبع وسبعىن والف من الهجرة النبوىة صلى الله علىه واله وسلم تسلىما تم تم تم
A few marginal notes and glosses. MS in good condition; Arabic leather binding with flap; gilt stamped and tooling.
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, A.D. 1904.
Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 1855.

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Arabic

Seventeenth century

Hadith (Shiites)

Early works

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