Details

Subject(s)

• Islam—Prayers and devotions—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Religious life—Shīʻah—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Shīʻah—Customs and practices—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Persian—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Summary note

A compendium of religious duties for each day of the week. Poem on fol. 196b.

Notes

• Title from fol. 2a; also on fol. 1a by later hands.
• Dedicated to Shah Sulaymān I (fol. 2b).
• On front cover: Label reading "191" in Arabic script.
• Physical description: 19 lines per page; written in naskh in black on yellowish glazed, laid Arabic paper. Keywords and overlining in red; some marginal notes. Damage (by water?) to upper right corner of beginning and end of text block: paper is torn away but text unaffected. First leaf repaired on inner margin. Otherwise in good condition.
• Origin: Copy completed on 3 Dhū al-Qaʻdah 1122 H. [24 December 1710] (fol. 196a).
• Incipit: الحمد لله الذي جعل يوم الجمعة لعباده المقربين عيدا وميز به بين عبيده فجعل منهم شقيا وسعيدا ...

Binding note

Full black leather binding; back cover detached. Covers damaged in top right corner, similarly to text block.

Language note

Persian.

References

Āghā Buzurg. Dharīʻah (1936), X, 75 (129).

OCLC

708401116

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