A brief essay on the excellences and special privileges of the family of the Prophet followed by several responses.
Notes
Collation: Paper ; fol. 8 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Description: Partially pointed text ; watermarks (shield? topped with fleur-de-lis) ; MS in good condition.
Layout: 18-24 lines per page.
Ms. codex.
Origin: [Risālah] According to colophon copied Sunday 16 Dhū al-Ḥijjah 1219 by Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Mahdī (fol. 4b).
Title from front pastedown.
Colophon: [الرسالة] حرر يوم الاحد سادس عشر شهر ذ[ي]الحجة عام سنة 1219 کتبه افقر العباد الى ربه واحوجهم اليه [الى] علمه ابراهيم ابن محمد بن علي بن الحسين المهدي وفقه الله
Incipit: [الرسالة] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم. قال رجل في بعض المواقف
Binding note
Later? quarter-bound type III (without flap) binding in red leather and blue paper with block-stamped design.
Contents
1. fol. 1a-4b: Hādhihi al-Risāsalah Jamāl al-Āl al-Muṭahhar ibn ʻAlī ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad al-Amīr.
2. fol. 5a-5b: Jawāb Jamāl al-Āl wa-Badr Samā al-Kamāl ʻAbd al-Qādir ibn Aḥmad ibn ʻAbd al-Qādir.
3. fol. 5b-5b: Jawāb Ismāʻīl ibn Aḥmad al-Kibsī.
4. fol. 6a-8b: Jawāb al-Ḥusayn ibn Muḥyī a[l-D]īn Ibrāhīm al-Daylamī.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Brockelmann, C. GAL, SII, 936.
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 721.
Other format(s)
Also available in an electronic version.
OCLC
1295012176
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