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Subject(s)

• Shiites—Biography—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Persian—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Summary note

Treatise on the status of angels, prophets, imams, and other pious persons; preceded by a table of contents on fol 1b-6a.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• On front cover: Label reading "398" in Arabic script.
• Dedicated to Safavid Shāh Ḥusayn [r. 1694-1722] (fol. 8a).
• Physical description: 17 lines per page; written in naskh in black on glazed, wove paper. Rubrication and catchwords; a few marginal notes. Arabic quotations vocalized and overlined in red. In excellent condition.
• Origin: Copy completed by Ibn Mīrzā Mahdī Shikastah-Nivīs ʻAbd al-Vahhāb al-Mūsavī at the end of Rajab 1285 H [16 November 1868] (fol. 324a).
• Incipit: کبوتران ملائکه مقربىن در بروج مشيدۀ سموات بهدىر تسبىح و تقدىس خداوندى مانندى مترنمند که لالى و جواهر اىادش افزون ترازانست که بمىزان عقول و مقىاس توان سنجىده

Binding note

Contemporary full red-brown leather with blind-stamped central mandorla, pendants, corner designs, and fillets; marbled paper pastedowns.

Language note

Persian.

Provenance

On fol. ia, owner's note by Sayyid Muḥammad Bāqir al-mushtahir bi-Baḥr al-ʻUlūm dated Muḥarram 1371 H [October 1951]. On fol. 1a, stamp of Muḥammad ʻAlī ʻAbd al-Rāḥī [?] dated 12[--].

References

Āghā Buzurg. Dharīʻah (1936), VI, 289

Other title(s)

• Ḥadāʼiq al-muqarrabīn
• حدائق المقربين

OCLC

757937889

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