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Subject(s)

• Shīʻah—Doctrines—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Devil—Islam [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Persian—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Summary note

Part two of a Shiʻite doctrinal text, on the imamate; followed by a short text on fol. 257b-258b entitled Qiṣṣah-i Iblīs.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from fol. 1b.
• On front cover: Label reading "215" in Arabic script.
• On spine: Label in blurred Arabic script.
• Physical description: 25 lines per page; written in naskh in black on blue glazed, laid European paper. Fol. 257b-258b in nastaʻliq. Text framed in blue and red. Rubrication and catchwords; paginated in Arabic script in purple on the bottom center of page. Table of contents on fol. 1a. Light staining and smudging; fol. 257-258 detached. Some marginal paper repairs, except for fol. 1 in which paper has been repaired inside text frame and the relevant text replaced. Otherwise in excellent condition.
• Origin: Copy completed Ṣafar 1221 H [April-May 1806] (fol. 257a).
• Incipit: زىب و آراىش آغاز انجام نعوت و صفات انبىاى عظام و اوصىاى کرام

Binding note

Decorated orange paper over pasted boards with maroon silk spine and corners; brown pastedowns and flyleaves.

Language note

Persian.

Provenance

Note dated 11 Muḥarram 1362 H [18 January 1943] on inner front cover; note dated 1354 H [1935 or 6] on fol. ia. Owner's stamp on fol. 358b.

References

Āghā Buzurg. Dharīʻah (1936), VI, 385

Other title(s)

• Ḥadīqat al-Shīʻah
• حديقة الشيعة
• Qiṣṣah-i Iblīs.
• قصه ابلىس.

OCLC

756936748

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