Details

Subject(s)

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

Summary note

A treatise on supplications to be said after specific prayers and in certain situations, in ten faṣl, followed by a supplication on fol. 99b.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from fol. 1b.
• Ms. is erroneously foliated beginning on the second folio. Record follows erroneous numbering.
• Physical description: 15 lines per page; written in elegant naskh in black on glazed, laid Arabic paper. Rubrication and catchwords. Arabic prayers vocalized. Text framed in blue, red, and gold. A few marginal corrections. First leaf is a replacement for the original. Several leaves detached. Insert between fol. 31-32. Paper repairs to first and last few leaves. Some foxing; binding is almost completely detached.
• Incipit: الحمد لله الذي جعل الصلوة للمؤمنين معراجا والتعقيب لصعودها على معارج القبول منهاجا

Binding note

Limp brown leather with blind-stamped central mandorla and pendants; spine broken and almost completely detached.

Language note

Persian.

Provenance

Text completed in Ramaḍān 1096 H. [May or June 1659] (fol. 99a). There is also a note in the margin concerning the date when the embellishment was completed (Rabīʻ I ...); however, part of the text has been lost due to paper damage.

Other format(s)

Published (1267 [1850 or 1]).

OCLC

732862768

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