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Subject(s)

• Islamic ethics—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Persian—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Summary note

Treatise on good character, complete through most of the last asās (no. 14, dar hidāyat).

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from fol. 1a.
• On front cover: Label reading "45" in Arabic script.
• On spine: Label reading "Khazān-i bahār 227" in Arabic script.
• Ms. erroneously foliated beginning on the front flyleaf. Record follows erroneous foliation.
• Physical description: 15 lines per page; written in shikastah in black on glazed, laid European paper with visible fibers and bearing the watermark "Picardo." Rubrication and catchwords. Incomplete at end, but last leaf with colophon inserted between pages and marked fol. 76. Light insect damage and damp staining. Fol. 68-76 detached.
• Origin: Copy completed 3 Muḥarram 1259 H [3 February 1843] in Hamadān by Karam-ʻAlī ibn Ḥājjī ʻAbd al-Wahhāb (fol. 76a).
• Incipit: چمن آراى فرج بعد از شدت در خزان و بهار روزگار لطف شامل حضرت سبحانى است که ذات کامل انسانى را از وحشت سراى رحم

Binding note

Full brown leather with blind-stamped central mandorla, pendants, and fillet; yellow pastedown. Back cover missing.

Language note

Persian.

Provenance

Note of sale dated 1311 H [1893 or 4], Tehran (fol. 1a).

References

Āghā Buzurg. Dharīʻah (1936), VII, 151-2

Other title(s)

• Khazān-i bahār
• خزان بهار

OCLC

759862852

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