Princeton University, Islamic Manuscripts New Series no. 762

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DS ID:

DS27836

Shelfmark:

Islamic Manuscripts New Series no. 762

Title:

Bayān-i Shahīd / بيان شهيد

Texts on Islamic law

Author:

Shahīd al-Awwal, Muḥammad ibn Makkī, 1333 or 1334-1380 / شهيد الاول، محمد بن مكي

Muhammad Jamaluddin al-Makki al-Amili WIKIDATA

Date:

1565

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

ara

Arabic WIKIDATA

Material:

paper

Paper AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 95, i leaves : paper ; 203 x 150 (135 x 110) mm. bound to 203 x 155 mm.

Note:

Ms. codex.
Title from spine label.
Physical description: 21 lines per page. Written in medium small naskh with elements of nastaʻlīq, in black ink. Yāʼ for alif maqṣūrah ; final yāʼ dotted. European paper. The beginning of the text is apparently a later replacement (fol. 2). Fol. 1 in the modern foliation is a fly-leaf with name of the author on the recto. Fol. 95 detached.
Origin: According to colophon, copied for al-Shaykh Nājī ibn al-Shaykh Hamzah [Nājī ibn Hamzah], his brother in God, Rabīʻ al-Ākhar 973 [2 crossed out] [1565] (fol. 95a).
Impression of an oval seal (200 mm.) on fol. 2b.

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Arabic

Sixteenth century

New Jersey--Princeton

Islamic law--Interpretation and construction

History

Fourteenth century

Sources

Shīʻah

Early works

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/9954917503506421

IIIF Manifest:

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/e6c41017-da77-47f6-a45f-009df35d8dea/manifest

Holding Institution:

Princeton University