Details

Subject(s)

• Islamic literature—History and criticism—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Shiite literature—History and criticism—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Shiites—Biography—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Persian—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• Illuminated manuscripts—Islamic countries—19th century [Browse]
• Headpieces (layout features)—Islamic countries—19th century [Browse]

Summary note

A biography of prominent Shiʻites from the rise of Islam to the beginning of the Safavid dynasty.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from fol. 3a-3b.
• On front cover: Label reading "77" in Arabic script.
• On spine: Label reading "1193" in Arabic script.
• Physical description: 27 lines per page; written in naskh in black on glazed, laid Arabic paper. Rubrication and catchwords; a few marginal notes. Numerous paper repairs, particularly to first and last leaves, resulting in some loss of text on the latter. Damp staining in margins, text largely unaffected. In good condition.
• Decoration: Added after most paper repairs were made; first and last leaves repaired with glazed, laid watermarked European paper likely from the early 19th century. Illuminated ʻunwān on fol. 2b painted mostly in gold, blue, and red in a delicate floral pattern. Gold box left for title but not filled in. Remainder of text is framed in blue and silver with a silver border in the margins.
• Origin: Copy completed by [...]qājān Mīrshikār Muḥammad Ṭāhir on 1 Ramaḍān 1073 H. [9 April 1663] (fol. 480a).
• Incipit: نفحات دلگشاى حمد و رشحات جانفزاى ثنا

Binding note

Full dark violet leather with blind-stamped central mandorla, pendants, corner designs, and fillets; turquoise pastedowns and flyleaves.

Language note

Persian.

Provenance

On fol. 226b-227a, owner's statements and stamps of Muḥammad Riz̤ā ibn al-marḥūm ʻAbd al-Rashīd dated Rabīʻ I 1219 H. [June 1804], accompanied by other owner's stamps. On fol. 3a, owner's statement and stamp dated 18 Shawwāl 1256 H. [13 December 1840]. On fol. 480a, owner's stamp dated 1283 H. [1866 or 7]. Other owner's stamps on numerous pages throughout ms.

References

• Āghā Buzurg. Dharīʻah (1936), XIX, 370
• Rieu, C. Catalogue of the Persian manuscripts, I, 337

Other format(s)

Published (Tehran, 1365 [1986]).

OCLC

739669980

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