Details

Subject(s)

• Muḥammad Prophet -632 [Browse]
• ʻAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib Caliph approximately 600-661 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Persian—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• Illuminated manuscripts—Islamic countries—19th century [Browse]

Summary note

Selections from the Qurʾān followed by texts on the virtues of ʻAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib and the Prophet Muḥammad.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Physical description: 7 lines per page; written in large naskh on machine-made paper. Fol. 1-108 are dyed a variety of colors and sprinkled with gold. Texts 1-2 written in black, blue, red, and gold and framed in blue, gold, and red, with crude illuminated ʻunwāns and marginal medallions; text 3 in black with rubrication and framed in red and gold. Persian texts written in nastaʻliq. Catchwords. Fol. 1a, 98b, 101b-109a, 125a-130b blank except for rulings. Some staining and bleeding of ink; otherwise in good condition.

Binding note

Burgundy leather with blind-stamped central mandorla and pendants painted black and blind-stamped fillets. The pendants read "ʻAmal-i ʻAbd al-Qādir ṣaḥḥāf." Covers have been mounted onto newer boards. Paper doublures painted with mandorla, pendants and geometric pattern in brown hues.

Language note

Arabic and Persian.

Contents

• 1. fol. 1b-98a: [Selections from the Qurʾān]. Sūrat al-Fātiḥah has interlinear Persian translation.
• 2. fol. 99a-100a: Khavāṣṣ-i shish bayt-i Ḥaz̤rat ʻAlī. Arabic text with Persian introduction and interlinear translation.
• 3. fol. 109b-124a: Nūrnāmah-i Ḥaz̤rat Muḥammad Muṣṭafá. Explanation in Persian of the ḥadīth "Awwal mā khalaqa Allāh nūrī."

Other title(s)

• Khavāṣṣ-i shish bayt-i Ḥaz̤rat ʻAlī.
• خواص شش بىت حضرت على.
• Nūrnāmah-i Ḥaz̤rat Muḥammad Muṣṭafá.
• نورنامه حضرت محمد مصطفى.

OCLC

806332007

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