Princeton University, Oversize Islamic Manuscripts Garrett no. 2360Yq

Metadata

DS ID:

DS27933

Shelfmark:

Oversize Islamic Manuscripts Garrett no. 2360Yq

Title:

Kitāb Masālik al-afhām ilá tanqīḥ Sharāyiʻ al-Islām / كتاب مسالك الافهام الى تنقيح شرايع الاسلام

Masālik al-afhām ilá tanqīḥ Sharāʼiʻ al-Islām

Author:

Shahīd al-Thānī, Zayn al-Dīn ibn ʻAlī, 1506-1559 / شهيد الثاني، زين الدين بن علي، 1506-1559،

Zayn al-Din al-Juba'i al'Amili WIKIDATA

Date:

16--?

seventeenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Arabic

Arabic WIKIDATA

Material:

paper

Paper AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 2 volumes (298, 248 leaves) : paper ; 366 x 248 (293 x 177-182) mm bound to 366 x 248 mm

Note:

Ms. codex.
Title from colophon, volume 1, leaf 299b.
Both volumes erroneously foliated beginning on the front flyleaf. Record follows erroneous foliation.
Physical description: 40 lines per page; written in miniscule naskh in black on tan glazed, laid Arabic paper. Rubrication and catchwords; a few marginal notes. Some cross-outs. Some staining and paper repairs. Leaf 3 of volume 2 is a replacement.
Origin: According to Mach, possibly 17th century. Volume 1 copied by Ḥijá ibn Naṣr Allāh ibn Muḥammad (volume 1, leaf 299b); volume 2 copied by Muḥammad ibn [...] (volume 2, leaf 250b).
Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Arabic

Seventeenth century

Sharāʼiʻ al-Islām (Muḥaqqiq al-Ḥillī, Jaʻfar ibn al-Ḥasan)

Islamic law

Early works

Shīʻah

New Jersey--Princeton

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/9962654973506421

Holding Institution:

Princeton University