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Subject(s)

• Islamic philosophy—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Islamic ethics—Early works to 1800 [Browse]

Notes

• Title from f. 1b.
• Copyist identified in colophon as: Muḥammad Bāqir ibn Mullā Raḥīmī al-Lāhijī.
• Ms. in nastaliq script on glazed oriental paper. 27.2 x 16.5 cm. Catchwords; some vocalization and marginal notes. Text is in black ink with key words and phrases in red and blue. Illuminated ʻunwān; text area framed by ruled border in gold and blue and glazed with gilt powder. Margins of f. 1b and 2a decorated with gold stamped folial design.
• Paper is of various hues: blue, biege, pink, white. Some minor worm damage. Text block appears to have been trimmed.
• Binding is wallet style, black leather. Covers have ruled gold fillets, incised corner decorations in red and gold, incised mandorla and opposing tulips in same fashion. Fore edge of envelope flap has gold fillets, red leather bands at top and bottom. Envelope flap has incised center medallion and corner decorations in same style as cover. Spine is plain. Doublures are red leather with frames of ruled gilt fillets.
• Incipit:حمد بيحد ومدح ببعد لايق حض[رت عز]ت مالك الملكى باشد همچناكه دربد وفطرت اولى
• Explicit:... واقتناء حسنات كرامت گناد وبرطلب مرضات خود حريص كرد انا دانه اللطيف ...
• Colophon:قد تم الرساله الشريفة الموسومة باخلاق الناصرى ... بيد احوج عباد الله الغنى محمد باقر بن ملا رحيمى اللاهئ جى ... فى شهر صفر ختم بالخير و الظفر سنة ١٥٦ ... از حضرت پردردكار چناست كه از مطالعه اين نسخه نفيسه مستفيض وبهره مند كردند بحق الحق النبى مطلق.

Provenance

Leaf 1a bears ownership seal with legend: "Min mutamallakāt al-faqīr al-Ḥajj Muṣtafa Ṣidqī ghafara la-hu [1]179." Page 2 of cover bears bookplate of Otto Orren Fischer.

Edge title

• Akhlāq-i Nāṣirī.

OCLC

122839398

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