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Summary of Contents: كتاب الاستبصار فيما اختلف فيه من الاخبار The Istibár, a well-known work on Shi'a traditions by Muhammad ibnu'l- Hasan at-Túsí (d. 459/1067). See Brockelmann, vol. 1, p. 405; Ahlwardt's Berlin Arabic Catalogue, vol. II, pp. 108-110, Nos. 1272-6. The book has been litho- graphed at the Ja'fariyya Press, Lucknow, without date, in two vols, of 172 pp and 364 pp. respectively, concluding (pp. 360-363) with an account of the eminent author. Ff. 342 of 33'7 x 19'7 c. and 28 ll.; large, clear naskh with rubrications, within gilt and coloured marginal lines; transcribed by Muhammad Muhsin ibn Nizam ash-Sharaf, and completed in the middle of Jumadà n, 1077/December, 1666. Bought at the Belshah sale in January, 1920.

Author: Ṭūsī, Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan, 995-1067? الطوسي، محمد بن الحسن

Title: al-Istibṣār fī-mā ikhtalafa fīhi min al-akhbār

Title: al-Istibṣār fī-mā ukhtulifa fīhi min al-akhbār

Title: كتاب الاستبصار فيما اختلف فيه من الاخبار

Language(s): Arabic

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: Paper

Extent: Ff. 342

Dimensions: 33.7 × 19.7 cm.

Layout

28 lines

Hand(s)

large, clear naskh with rubrications, within gilt and coloured marginal lines

History

Origin: 1077 AH; 1666 CE

Provenance and Acquisition

Bought at the Belshah sale in January, 1920.

Bequest of E. G. Browne.

Record Sources

Summary, physical description and provenance copied from R. A. Nicholson: A descriptive catalogue of the Oriental MSS belonging to the late E.G. Browne. Cambridge, 1932.

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Funding of Cataloguing

JISC

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