Details

Subject(s)

• Islam—Rituals [Browse]
• Prayer—Islam [Browse]
• Salat [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Persian—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Summary note

The prayer ritual based on the practices of the 12 Shiʻite Imams. Short supplication on fol. 1b.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from fol. 2b.
• Physical description: 20 lines per page; written in naskhi in black on cream glazed, laid European paper. Headings and overlines in red; catchwords. A few marginal notes. In excellent condition. Label on front cover reads "66" in Arabic script; spine label stamped "291" in Arabic script.
• Origin: Copy completed 22 Ramaḍān 1246 H. [6 March 1831] by Muḥammad Ibrāhīm ibn ʻAlī Muḥammad al-Aṣfahānī (fol. 373a).
• Incipit: الحمد لله الذي توحد بالملك فلا ند له في ملكوت سلطانه وتفرد بالعز فلا ضد له في جبروت كبريائه

Binding note

Brown full leather binding with stamped central mandorla, pendants, and fillets.

Language note

Persian.

Provenance

Two owner's notes and stamps, only partly legible, dated 1275 H. and 1283 H. (fol. 2a).

References

Āghā Buzurg. Dharīʻah (1936), III, 404

Other format(s)

Published (Qum, Iran: 1989).

OCLC

707628941

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