• [رسالة الاعتقادات] ... [الخ].
  • [Risālat al-iʻtiqādāt] ... [etc.].

Collections:
  • Princeton Digital Library of Islamic Manuscripts
Binding note:
  • Limp black leather with blind-stamped central mandorla and pendants and blind-tooled fillets. Spine repaired with cloth.
Location:
  • Special Collections Islamic Manuscripts, New Series no. 151
Contributor:
  • Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, New Series no. 151
Call number:
  • Islamic Manuscripts, New Series no. 151
Format:
  • Manuscript
  • Book
Identifier:
  • ark:/88435/j098zd72m
References:
  • Mach, R. & Ormsby, E.L. Handlist of Arabic manuscripts (New Series), no. 125, 382, 1162, 1172, 1379.
  • Brockelmann, C. GAL, II, 546 (no. 3); SII, 578 (3: no. 3); SII, 597 (no. 27)
Available online:
Publisher:
  • [1717 or 1718]
Abstract:
  • Collection of Shiʻite texts.
Language:
  • Arabic
Text language:
  • Arabic and Persian.
Contents:
  • 1. leaves 1b-4b: [Risālat al-iʻtiqādāt] / Bahāʼ al-Dīn al-ʻĀmilī. Short treatise on Shiʻite doctrine.
  • 2. leaves 4b-8b: Risālah fī taḥqīq al-qiblah / Bahāʼ al-Dīn al-ʻĀmilī. Treatise on determining the direction of the qiblah.
  • 3. leaves 9b-13b: Faṣl dar z̲ikr-i ṣūrat. Extract on geometry from an unidentified mathematics text, with diagrams in the margins.
  • 4. leaves 13b-18b: [Risālah fī taḥrīm dhabāʼiḥ ahl al-kitāb] / Bahāʼ al-Dīn al-ʻĀmilī. Treatise discussing the prohibition on the meat of the Ahl al-Kitāb.
  • 5. leaves 19b-65a: Bidāyat al-hidāyah / Ḥurr al-ʻĀmilī. Treatise on religious duties and prohibitions.
  • 6. leaves 65b-73b: [al-Ṣaḥāʼif al-arbaʻūn al-ilāhīyah]. Forty ḥadīth qudsī, supposedly from the Tawrāh according to the introduction; text breaks off in the middle of the 35th ḥadīth.
  • 7. leaves 74a-152a: [al-Fuṣūl al-muhimmah fī uṣūl al-aʼimmah] / Ḥurr al-ʻĀmilī. Hadiths on legal topics attributed to the Shiʻite imams, particularly Jaʻfar al-Ṣādiq. Missing a few leaves at the beginning (abwāb al-wuḍūʼ begin on leaf 74b). Followed by prayers in Arabic on leaves 151b-152a.
Date:
  • 1717-1718
Description:
  • Ms. codex.
  • Title from text 1.
  • Physical description: 17-18 lines per page; written in medium naskh in black on glazed, laid Arabic paper. Text 3 in nastaʻliq with elements of shikastah. Rubrication and catchwords. Lower corners and outer edge moldered; marginal damp-staining.
  • Origin: Text 4, 1130 H [1717 or 1718] (leaf 18b). Text 5, the second third of Jumādá I 1130 H [April 1718], by Ibn Ḥāfiẓ ʻAbd al-Laṭīf Muḥammad ʻAlī al-Rāzī (leaf 65a). Text 7, Ṣafar (leaf 151a). Remaining texts likely completed by the same scribe around the same time.
  • Incipit: [رسالة الاعتقادات] الحمد لله على آلائه ... وبعد نحن معاشر الشيعة الاثنى عشرية انما اخذنا اصولنا الدينية وفروعنا الملية -- [رسالة في تحقيق القبلة] اما بعد الحمد و الصلوة فىقول ... ان تحقىق حقىقة جهة القبلة -- [فصل در ذکر صورت] فصل در ذکر صورت گر بر سبىل اجمال صور متصور در ضرب -- [رسالة في تحريم] الحمد لله على جزىل افضاله -- [بداية الهداية] الحمد لله ... وبعد فيقول ... قد التمس منى جماعة من الاخوان -- [الصحائف الاربعون الالهية] عجبت لمن اىقن بالموت
Spatial:
  • New Jersey
Provenance:
  • On leaf 19a, note dated Dhū al-Ḥijjah 1155 H [February 1743].
Edm rights:
  • No Known Copyright
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Description:
  • Ms. codex.
  • Title from text 1.
  • Physical description: 17-18 lines per page; written in medium naskh in black on glazed, laid Arabic paper. Text 3 in nastaʻliq with elements of shikastah. Rubrication and catchwords. Lower corners and outer edge moldered; marginal damp-staining.
  • Origin: Text 4, 1130 H [1717 or 1718] (leaf 18b). Text 5, the second third of Jumādá I 1130 H [April 1718], by Ibn Ḥāfiẓ ʻAbd al-Laṭīf Muḥammad ʻAlī al-Rāzī (leaf 65a). Text 7, Ṣafar (leaf 151a). Remaining texts likely completed by the same scribe around the same time.
  • Incipit: [رسالة الاعتقادات] الحمد لله على آلائه ... وبعد نحن معاشر الشيعة الاثنى عشرية انما اخذنا اصولنا الدينية وفروعنا الملية -- [رسالة في تحقيق القبلة] اما بعد الحمد و الصلوة فىقول ... ان تحقىق حقىقة جهة القبلة -- [فصل در ذکر صورت] فصل در ذکر صورت گر بر سبىل اجمال صور متصور در ضرب -- [رسالة في تحريم] الحمد لله على جزىل افضاله -- [بداية الهداية] الحمد لله ... وبعد فيقول ... قد التمس منى جماعة من الاخوان -- [الصحائف الاربعون الالهية] عجبت لمن اىقن بالموت
Title:
  • [رسالة الاعتقادات] ... [الخ].
  • [Risālat al-iʻtiqādāt] ... [etc.].
Extent:
  • 152 leaves : paper ; 208 x 137 (150-160 x 90) mm bound to 208 x 142 mm
Subject:
  • Food—Religious aspects—Islam—Early works to 1800
  • Geometry—Early works to 1800
  • Hadith—Texts—Early works to 1800
  • Hadith (Shiites)—Texts—Early works to 1800
  • Islamic law—Early works to 1800
  • Qiblah—Early works to 1800
  • Shīʻah—Early works to 1800
  • Shīʻah—Doctrines—Early works to 1800
  • Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
  • Manuscripts, Persian—New Jersey—Princeton
  • diagrams
  • Blind tooled bindings
Abstract:
  • Collection of Shiʻite texts.
Provenance:
  • On leaf 19a, note dated Dhū al-Ḥijjah 1155 H [February 1743].
Created:
  • 1717-01-01T00:00:00Z/1718-12-31T23:59:59Z
Extent:
  • 152 leaves : paper ; 208 x 137 (150-160 x 90) mm bound to 208 x 142 mm