Details

Subject(s)

• Prayer—Islam—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Islam—Prayers and devotions—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Persian—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Summary note

A treatise on prayer consisting of a muqaddimah, three bāb, and a khātimah. According to Āghā Buzurg (Dharīʻah, 1936, XXI, 355), while the text is attributed to Muḥammad Jaʻfar ibn Muḥammad Taqī al-Majlisī, Muḥammad Taqī al-Majlisī is not known to have had a son by that name. He also states that the text was written for Shāh Sulaymān I (d. 1694). Text is also known as Miftāḥ al-jinān.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from fol. 3a.
• On back cover: Label reading "280" in Arabic script.
• Ms. is erroneously foliated beginning on first endpaper. Record follows erroneous foliation.
• Physical description: 19 lines per page; written in ruqʻah in black on tan glazed, laid Arabic paper. Rubrication and catchwords; extensive marginal notes. Arabic quotations in naskh and vocalized. Interlinear Persian translation in red accompanies Arabic prayers. First leaf missing; lacuna between fol. 23 and 24. Back endpaper detached and partially torn away. Some dampstaining and extensive paper repairs, mainly marginal.

Binding note

Dark brown limp leather with simple tooled geometric design and stamped fillets.

Language note

Persian.

References

Āghā Buzurg. Dharīʻah (1936), XXI, 355 (no. 5434)

Other title(s)

• Miftāḥ al-jinān
• مفتاح الجنان

OCLC

713057555

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