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Subject(s)

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

Summary note

Mujallad 1 of Abvāb al-jinān, a collection of religious and moral exhortations; first leaf missing.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from colophon on fol. 173a.
• On front cover: Label reading "299" in Arabic script.
• Ms. erroneously foliated beginning on the front flyleaf. Record follows erroneous numbering.
• Physical description: 26 lines per page; written in naskh in black on tan glazed, laid Arabic paper. Rubrication and catchwords; a few marginal notes. Text framed in red and black. First two leaves written in nastaʻliq; fol. 2 and 3 out of order (should be switched) and first leaf missing. Numerous paper repairs, with occasional loss of text, particularly at beginning and end of text block.
• Origin: Copy completed 1 Rabīʻ I 1085 H. [5 June 1674] (fol. 173a).

Binding note

Full black leather with brown leather spine; blind-stamped central mandorla, pendants, and fillets.

Language note

Persian.

Provenance

Numerous owner's stamps on fol. 173a-173b.

References

Āghā Buzurg. Dharīʻah (1936), I, 76

Other format(s)

Published (Cawnpore, 1897).

Other title(s)

• Abwāb al-jinān
• ابواب الجنان

OCLC

729256217

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