Finding Aid for the Richard (Rouhollah) Karubian collection of Arabic and Persian manuscripts, 1510-1930
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Manuscript no. 1 [Shiite jurisprudence] 1817
Scope and Content Note
- Author: [Khuwānsārī, Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn, d. 1713]
- Scribe: ''Abd al-Raḥmān ibn Ustād Qurbān
- Language: Text in Arabic
- Origin: Qājār Iran
- Layout: 22 lines of text per page.
- Script: Naskh.
- Binding: Brown leather, blind stamped.
- Additional description: Text in black, some section numbers or Koranic phrases in red ink. Occasional marginalia and damage.
Manuscript no. 2 [Nahj al-balāgha kitāb mawāłẓ wa al-ḥikam] / [The height of eloquence : book of exhortations and aphorisms] 1681
Scope and Content Note
- Author: ['Alī ibn Abī Ṭālib 600 (ca.)-661.]
- Language: Text in Arabic
- Origin: Ṣafawid Persia
- Layout: 13 lines of text per page.
- Script: Naskh.
- Binding: Brown morocco.
- Additional descriptive data: Spine title. Text in black ink, occasionally underlined with red, with marginalia in several hands throughout. Some water damage.
Manuscript no. 3 [IkhtiṢār sharḥ sharāyi' al-Islām fī masā'il al-ḥalāl wa al-ḥarām] / [The abridgement of the commentary on 'the rules of Islam regarding the questions of what is lawful and what is unlawful'] 1720
Scope and Content Note
- Author: Shahīd al-Thānī, Zayn al-Dīn ibn 'Alī, 1506-1559
- Scribe: Muḥammad Ṭāhir Dilmāqanī
- Language: Text in Arabic
- Origin: Ṣafawid Persia
- Layout: 29 lines of text per page.
- Script: Naskh.
- Binding: Bound in black leather, blind stamped.
- Additional descriptive data: Text in black ink, number headings written or underlined in red. Leaf three is blank. Damage to text block along the spine.
Manuscript no. 4 Irshād al-adhhān ilá al-aḣkām al-īmān / The guiding of minds to the strongest faith 1510
Scope and Content Note
- Author: Ibn al-Muṭahhar al-Ḥillī, al-Ḥasan ibn Yūsuf, 1250-1325.
- Scribe: 'Abd al-Jawād ibn Zayn ibn ['Alī] [al-Ḥasanābāḍ]
- Language: Text in Arabic
- Origin: Ottoman Empire or Ṣafawid Persia
- Layout: 21 lines of text per page.
- Script: Naskh.
- Binding: Burgundy leather boards with black leather spine and edges. Back cover detached.
- Additional descriptive data: Text in black ink, with headings in red and extensive marginalia.
- Contents:
- ff. 1a-1b: title page and table of contents;
- ff. 1b: opening;
- ff. 1b-5b: cleanliness;
- ff. 5b-15a: prayer;
- ff. 15a-19b: charity;
- ff. 19b-22a: fasting;
- ff. 22a-30a: pilgrimage;
- ff. 30a-33a: jihad;
- ff. 33a-41b: trade;
- ff. 41b-50a: debts;
- ff. 50a-58b: rent;
- ff. 58b-65b: gifts;
- ff. 65b-77a: marriage;
- ff. 77a-83b: separation;
- ff. 83b-88a: manumission;
- ff. 88a-93a: faith;
- ff. 93a-97a: hunting;
- ff. 97a-102b: inheritance;
- ff. 102b-112a: judicature;
- ff. 112a-119a: limitations;
- ff. 119a-127a: crimes;
- ff. 127a-133b: mulcts for homicide;
- ff. 134a: marginalia.
Manuscript no. 5 [Commonplace book] [ca. 18--?]
Scope and Content Note
- Language: Text in Persian
- Origin: Qājār Iran
- Layout: Varies.
- Script: Nasta'līq.
- Binding: Brown leather, blind stamped.
- Additional descriptive data: Text in black ink on blue paper, with a few headings in red.
Manuscript no. 6 Sharaāyi' al-Islām fī masā'il al-ḥalāl wa al-ḣarām / The rules of Islam regarding the questions of what is lawful and what is unlawful [ca. 18--?]]
Scope and Content Note
- Author: [Muḣaqqiq al-Hillīi, Ja'far ibn al-Ḥasan, 1205 or 6-1277]
- Language: Text in Arabic and Persian
- Origin: Qājār Iran
- Layout: 19 lines of text per page.
- Script: Naskh.
- Binding: Blue marbled wrappers over boards.
- Additional descriptive data: Text in black ink, with headings in red and fairly extensive marginalia. Occasional interlinear Persian translation, and chapter headings.
- Contents:
- ff 1a-1b: prayer and opening;
- ff. 1b-14a: cleanliness;
- ff. 14a-36b: prayer;
- ff. 36b-47a: charity;
- ff. 47a-49a: the fifth;
- ff. 49a-55a: fasting;
- ff. 55a-56b: remaining constantly in worship;
- ff. 56b-75a: pilgrimage;
- ff. 75a: minor pilgrimage;
- ff. 75a-82a: jihad;
- ff. 82a-82b: commanding the good and forbidding evil;
- ff. 82b-97a: trade;
- ff. 97a-101a: the bankrupt;
- ff. 101a-103b: interdiction;
- ff. 105a-109a: guarantee;
- ff. 109a-111a: settlement;
- ff. 111a-112b: corporation;
- ff. 112b-115a: silent partnership;
- ff. 115a-116b: temporary sharecropping;
- ff. 116a-118a: sharecropping contract;
- ff. 118a-119: custody;
- ff. 119a-120b: loan;
- ff. 120b-123a: rent;
- ff. 123a-128a: representation [power of attorney];
- ff. 128a-131b: charitable endowment;
- ff. 131b-132b: housing and confining;
- ff. 132b-133a: bestowal;
- ff. 133a-134b: precedence;
- ff. 134b-141b: wills;
- ff. 141b-170a: marriage;
- ff. 170a-179b: divorce;
- ff. 179b-182a: divorce [at the insistence of the wife], and peaceful separation;
- ff. 182a-186b: ?ihar divorce;
- ff. 186b-188a: annulment of unconsummated marriage;
- ff. 188a-190b: allegation of adultery;
- ff. 190b-193a: liberty;
- ff. 193a-194b: manumission [after the death of the master];
- ff. 194b-197a: correspondence;
- ff. 197a-201a: affirmation [confession];
- ff. 201a-202a: [wages?];
- ff. 202a-206a: faithfulness;
- ff. 206a-229b: pledge;
- ff. 229b-232b: hunting and slaughter;
- ff. 232b-236a: food an drink;
- ff. 236a-240b: usurpation;
- ff. 240b-244b: [preemption?];
- ff. 244b-247a: cultivation of virgin land;
- ff. 247a-249b: that which has been found;
- ff. 249b-263b: obligations;
- ff. 263b-278b: judgeship;
- ff. 278b-285b: testimonials;
- ff. 285b-279b: punishments;
Manuscript no. 7 [Bāb al-Ṣalāt min sharāyi' al-Islām fī masā'il al-ḥalāl wa al-ḥarām] / [Chapter on prayer from the rules of Islam regarding the questions of what is lawful and what is unlawful] 1863
Scope and Content Note
- Scribe: Muḥammad Ṣādiq al-Wā'iẓ al-IṢfahani
- Language: Text in Arabic
- Origin: Qājār Iran
- Layout: 21 lines of text per page.
- Script: Naskh.
- Binding: Unbound text block.
- Additional descriptive data: Text in black ink, with headings in red and some marginalia. Water damage throughout.
Manuscript no. 8 [Tamḥd al-qawā' id al-uṣuliyya wa al-'arabiyya li-tafrī fawā'id al-aḥkām al-shar' īyya] / [Introducing fundamental and Arabic rules in order to bring forth the useful things of legal rulings] 1892
Scope and Content Note
- Author: Shahīd al-Thānī, Zayn al-Dīn ibn 'Alī, 1506-1559
- Language: Text in Arabic
- Origin: Qājār Iran
- Layout: 16 lines of text per page.
- Script: Naskh.
- Binding: Unbound text block.
- Additional descriptive data: Text in black ink with some marginalia. Some water damage. Occasional impression of colorless stamp in Cyrillic script at bottom left corner of leaves.
Manuscript no. 9 Miftaḥ al-fālaḥ / Key to prosperity 1880-1881
Scope and Content Note
- Author: 'Āmilī, Bahā' al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn ḥusayn, 1547-1621
- Scribe: Qawam al-ḍn ibn Mu?ammad Taq? al-?usayni
- Language: Text in Arabic
- Origin: Qājār Iran
- Layout: 14 lines of text per page.
- Script: Naskh.
- Binding: Brown leather.
- Additional descriptive data: Text in black ink, with chapter headings, punctuation, and underlining in red. Occasional marginalia and staining.
- Contents:
- ff. 1b-2a: opening and introduction;
- ff. 2a-66b: Chapter one: what one does between dawn and sunrise;
- ff. 66b-79b: Chapter two: what one does between sunrise and noon;
- ff. 79b-107b: Chapter three: what one does between noon and sunset;
- ff. 107b-124b: Chapter four: what one does between sunset and sleep-time;
- ff. 124b-132b: Chapter five: what one does between sleep-time and midnight;
- ff. 132b-178b: Chapter six: what one does between midnight and dawn;
- ff. 178a: scribe's note.
Manuscript no. 10 Kashf al-ghiṭā' 'an mubhamāt al-sharī 'a al-gharrā' / Removing the cover from the obscurities of the brilliant law 1930
Scope and Content Note
- Author: [Janājī, Ja'far ibn Khaḍir, 1743 or 4-1811 or 12]
- Language: Text in Arabic
- Origin: Iran
- Layout: 31 lines of text per page.
- Script: Naskh.
- Binding: Black leather.
- Additional descriptive data: Text in black ink, with headings in red. Occasional staining and damage to spine.
- Contents:
- ff. 1b: opening and introduction;
- ff. 1b-28a: First field;
- ff. 28a-: Second field.
Manuscript no. 11 Tamḥd al-qawā' id al-uṢuliyya wa al-'arabiyya li-tafrī' fawā'id al-aḥkãm al-shar'īyya / Introducing fundamental and Arabic rules in order to bring forth the useful things of legal rulings 1639
Scope and Content Note
- Author: Shahīd al-Thānī, Zayn al-Dīn ibn 'Alī, 1506-1559
- Language: Text in Arabic
- Origin: Ottoman Empire or Ṣafawid Persia.
- Layout: 21 lines of text per page.
- Script: Naskh.
- Binding: Limp black leather.
- Additional descriptive data: Text in black ink, with headings in red on 47b. Staining and water damage throughout.
Manuscript no. 12 [Minhāj al-nijāt] / [The right paths to salvation] no date
Scope and Content Note
- Author: [Fayḍ al-Kāshī, Muḥammad ibn Murtaḍá, 1598 or 9-1680 or 81]
- Language: Text in Persian and Arabic
- Layout: 17 lines of text per page.
- Script: Naskh; Arabic texts vocalized.
- Binding: Unbound text block.
- Additional descriptive data: Text in black ink with headings in red or gold, enclosed in a painted border. Occasional staining and tears.
- Contents:
- ff. 1a-68a: Remainder of chapter two;
- ff. 68a-84a: Chapter three: prayers for times of trouble;
- ff. 84a-131b: Chapter four: prayers for repelling enemies;
- ff. 131b-171b: Chapter five: "warder" prayers;
- ff. 171b-176b: Chapter six: prayers for repelling devils and witchcraft;
- ff. 177a-192b: Remainder of chapter twelve;
- ff. 193a-200b: Chapter thirteen: prayers of repentance;
- ff. 200b-205b: Chapter fourteen: prayers of praising the Prophet;
- ff. 205b-218a: Chapter fifteen: prayers attributed to various prophets;
- ff. 218a-227a: Chapter sixteen: prayers for asking for guidance;
- ff. 227a-244a: Chapter seventeen: on the virtues of reading the Koran;
- ff. 244a-264b: Chapter eighteen; on the several names of God;
- ff. 264b-314b: Chapter twenty: on the merits of Friday nights;
- ff. 314b-335b: Chapter twenty one: on weekday prayers;
- ff. 335b-358b: Chapter twenty two: prayers to follow required prayers;
- ff. 358b-376b: Chapter twenty three: on what to do during the month of Rajab;
- ff. 376b-392b: Chapter twenty four: on what do for the month of Sha' bān;
- ff. 392b-418b: Chapter twenty five: on what to do for the month of Ramaḍān.
Manuscript no. 13 Muntakhab kitāb jawāhir al-adhkār / Selection of the book of the jewels of remembrances 1848
Scope and Content Note
- Scribe: Ibn 'Abd al-Ḥusayn Muḥammad Nayrīzī
- Language: Text in Arabic and Persian
- Origin: Qājār Iran
- Layout: 13 lines of text per page.
- Script: Naskh; Arabic texts vocalized.
- Decoration: Illumination on leaves 1b and 2a.
- Binding: Brown leather.
- Additional descriptive data: Text in black ink, with headings in red. Rows underlined in yellow, contained in a painted border. Staining and water damage throughout.
- Contents:
- ff. 1b-2b: Opening and table of contents (incomplete);
- ff. 2b-6b: Chapter one: the merits of prayer;
- ff. 6b-8a: Chapter two: rebuking of abandoning prayer;
- ff. 8a-10b: Chapter three: things that come before prayer for a speedy results;
- ff. 10b-11b: Chapter four: things that must be done after the prayer;
- ff. 11b-14b: Chapter five: the etiquette of prayer;
- ff. 14b-47b: Chapter six: prayers extracted out of the adored leaves;
- ff. 47b-48b: Chapter seven: when the sun enters Aries;
- ff. 48b-50a: Chapter eight: on what to do on Nawruz;
- ff. 50a-51b: Chapter nine: on what to do after that;
- ff. 51b-56b: Chapter ten: on the manners of observing the crescent moon;
- ff. 56b-69b: Chapter eleven: on what to do during the month of Muḥarram;
- ff. 69b-74a: Chapter twelve: on what to do during the month of Ṣafar;
- ff. 74a-83a: Chapter thirteen: on what to do during the month of Rabī ' al-al-ūlá;
- ff. 83a: Chapter fourteen: on what to do during the month of Rabī' al-Thānī;
- ff. 83a-83b: Chapter fifteen: on what to do during the month of Jumādá al-ūlá;
- ff. 83b-84b: Chapter sixteen: on what to do during the month of Jumādá al-Thānī;
- ff. 84b-96b: Chapter seventeen: on the virtues and requirements of the month of Rajab;
- ff. 96b-102b: Chapter eighteen: on the virtues and requirements of the month of Sha ' bān;
- ff. 102b-139a: Chapter nineteen: on the virtues and requirements of the month of Ramaḍān;
- ff. 139a-144b: Chapter twenty: on what to do during the month of Shawwāl;
- ff. 144b-145a: Chapter twenty one: on what to do during the month of Dhū al-Qa' da;
- ff. 145a-162b: Chapter twenty two: on what to do during the month of Dhū al-Ḥijja;
- ff. 162b-165b: Chapter twenty three: on the manners and virtues of saying laudations;
- ff. 165b-206: Chapter twenty four: necessary prayers for the one's welfare in this world and the next.
Manuscript no. 14 [Ta'wilat al-Āyāt] / [Commentaries upon Koranic verses] 1842-1843
Scope and Content Note
- Author: Sharīf al-Murtadá, 'Alam al-Hudá 'Alī ibn al-ḥusayn, 966-1044 or 5
- Scribe: Muḥammad Taqī [al-Ḥusayni?] al-Zanūzī
- Language: Text in Arabic
- Origin: Qājār Iran
- Layout: 21 lines of text per page.
- Script: Nasta'līq.
- Binding: Black leather.
- Additional descriptive data: Text in black ink, with headings in red on 1b. Occasional marginalia and staining; water damage throughout.
Manuscript no. 15 [Book on the Shiite Imams] 1813
Scope and Content Note
- Scribe: Banī (?) al-Khalīl al-Khurāsānī al-Shīrāzī
- Language: Text in Arabic
- Origin: Tabriz, Iran
- Layout: 19 lines of text per page.
- Script: Naskh.
- Binding: Brown leather.
- Additional descriptive data: Text in black ink with headings and punctuations in red on 1b. Marginalia in Persian and Arabic; occasional staining.
Manuscript no. 16 Qawā' id al-aḥkām fī ma' rifa al-ḥalal wa-al-ḥarām / The foundation of rulings in learning what is lawful and what is unlawful [18--]
Scope and Content Note
- Author: [Ibn al-Muṭahhar al-Ḥillī, al-Ḥasan ibn Yūsuf, 1250-1325]
- Language: Text in Arabic
- Origin: Qājār Iran
- Layout: 17 lines of text per page.
- Script: Naskh.
- Binding: Limp brown leather.
- Additional descriptive data: Text in black ink, with headings in red and extensive marginalia. Staining and water damage throughout.
- Contents:
- ff. 1b: prayer and opening;
- ff. 1b-17a: cleanliness;
- ff. 14a-36b: prayer;
- ff. 36b-46a: charity;
- ff. 46a-53a: fasting;
- ff. 53a-75a: pilgrimage;
- ff. 75b-88a: jihad;
- ff. 88a-116a: business transactions;
- ff. 116a-141a: debts;
- ff. 141a-151a: sureties;
- ff. 151a-168b: unlawful arbitrariness;
- ff. 168b-198a: rent;
- ff. 198a-261b: gifts and charitable endowment.
Manuscript no. 17 Ṣirāṭ [va qirāṭ]-i ḥaqq / Right path [or lamp] of truth 1846
Scope and Content Note
- Author: Burūjirdī, Muîḥammad Ḥusayn ibn Ma 'sūm
- Language: Text in Persian
- Origin: Qājār Iran
- Layout: 16 lines of text per page.
- Script: Naskh.
- Binding: Brown leather, blind stamped.
- Additional descriptive data: Text in black ink, with punctuations, headings and early marginal explanations in red. Occasional staining. Text block separated from binding.
Manuscript no. 18 [Unknown] [1572?]
Scope and Content Note
- Language: Text in Syriac
- Layout: 27 lines of text per page.
- Script: Serto.
- Binding: Brown leather.
- Additional descriptive data: Text in black ink, with punctuations and headings in red. Staining and water damage throughout.