Details

Subject(s)

• ʻAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib Caliph approximately 600-661—Miracles—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Persian—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Summary note

A collection of 300 miracles ascribed to ʻAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib after his death, written by the head of the caretakers of al-Rawḍah al-Riḍawīyah.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from fol. 7a.
• Title on fol. 1a by a later hand: Kitāb Ḥabl al-matīn fī muʻjizāt Amīr al-Muʾminīn taʾlīf-i Sayyid Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad Badīʻ Riz̤avī.
• On front cover: Label reading "314" in Arabic script.
• Physical description: 25 lines per page; written in shikastah in black on glazed, laid European paper. Catchwords; spaces left for headings but not filled in. A few marginal notes. Arabic quotations in naskh. Light staining. In excellent condition.
• Origin: Text originally written during or after 1118 H. [1706 or 7] (fol. 6a).

Binding note

Full brown leather with three blind-stamped pendants and tooled fillets; yellow pastedowns.

Language note

Persian.

Provenance

Owner's note on fol. 1a dated 1340 H. [1921 or 2].

References

Āghā Buzurg. Dharīʻah (1936), VI, 239

OCLC

739732920

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