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Subject(s)

• Islamic ethics—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Persian—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• donation inscriptions [Browse]

Summary note

Mujallad 1 of Abvāb al-jinān, a collection of religious and moral exhortations.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from colophon, fol. 241b.
• On front cover: Label reading "318" in Arabic script.
• Physical description: 20 lines per page; written in nastaʻliq in black on glazed, laid European paper. Rubrication and catchwords. Arabic quotations overlined in red. Paginated in Arabic script 1-485 beginning on fol. 1b. Modern printed insert after last folio gives the ancestry and dates of birth and death of Mahdī Muṭahhariyān, likely a former owner, along with his picture.
• Origin: Copy completed by Muṣṭafá Qulī Sulṭān, 14 Muḥarram 1257 H. [8 March 1841] (fol. 241b). However, a note following the colophon by the same scribe corrects the year to 1258 H. [25 February 1842].
• Incipit: بهترىن مقالى که سر خىل کاروان فنون محاورات تواند بود و خوشترىن کلامى که پر خردرا در طرىق سخن گذارى عصاکش خامۀ بىان تواند نمود

Binding note

Full brown leather with stamped central mandorla, pendants, and corner designs, and tooled fillets.

Language note

Persian.

Provenance

Stamps of four different owners on fol. 1a, the most recent being three of Sayyid Nūr al-Dīn Muṭahhariyān (likely the same as the person mentioned in the insert, Mahdī Muṭahhariyān, who was born 13 Rajab 1294 H. [24 July 1877] and died 12 Dhū al-Ḥijjah 1377 H. [30 June 1958]). Given as a waqf by Sayyid Muḥammad Riz̤ā Muṭahhariyān (fol. 1a, 241b), who is the author of the insert. Ownership stamp of Nūr al-Dīn Muṭahhariyān and waqf stamp on other pages throughout the ms.

References

Āghā Buzurg. Dharīʻah (1936), I, 76

Other format(s)

Published (Cawnpore, 1897).

OCLC

713038047

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