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كتاب المفاتيح.
Kitāb al-Mafātīḥ.
Author
Fayḍ al-Kāshī, Muḥammad ibn Murtaḍá, 1598 or 1599-1680 or 1681
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فيض الكاشي، محمد بن مرتضى، 1598 or 1599-1680 or 1681
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Uniform title
Mafātīḥ al-sharāʼiʻ.
Jild 2
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مفاتيح الشرائع.
جلد 2
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Format
Manuscript, Book
Language
Arabic
Published/Created
[1715]
Description
328 leaves : paper ; 200 x 146 (155 x 92) mm bound to 203 x 149 mm
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Special Collections - Manuscripts
Islamic Manuscripts, New Series no. 142
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Subject(s)
Islamic law
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Interpretation and construction
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Early works to 1800
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Shīʻah
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Early works to 1800
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Manuscripts, Arabic
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New Jersey
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Summary note
Second half of a treatise on Shiʻite law, with a table of contents on leaves 318a-318b.
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from leaf 326a.
Manuscript erroneously foliated in Western script beginning on the first of eight flyleaves. Record follows erroneous foliation.
Physical description: 15 lines per page; written in large, casual naskh in black on glazed, laid European paper. Rubrication and catchwords; marginal notes. Foliated in Arabic script, with errors. Mild staining and a few paper repairs.
Origin: 4 Rajab 1127 H [6 July 1715], by Ibn ʻAlī Akbar Mullā Ḥubb ʻAlī (leaf 326a).
Incipit: فن العادات والمعاملات من كتاب مفاتيح الشرايع وفيه كتب مفاتيح المطاعم والمشارب مفاتيح المناكح والمواليد
Binding note
Full brown leather with blind-stamped central mandorla and pendants; front cover lacking.
Language note
Arabic.
Provenance
On leaf 326a, stamp of scribe next to colophon, and owner's stamp and note of ... ibn Muḥammad.
References
Mach, R. & Ormsby, E.L. Handlist of Arabic manuscripts (New Series), no. 615
Brockelmann, C. GAL, SII, 584 (no. 3)
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Also available in an electronic version.
Other title(s)
Mafātīḥ
مفاتيح
OCLC
854858272
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