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Subject(s)

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

Summary note

Part two of a Shiʻite doctrinal text, on the imamate.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from fol. 1b.
• Physical description: 18 lines per page; written in nastaʻliq in black on tan glazed, laid Arabic paper. Rubrication and catchwords. Extensive damp staining, particularly toward middle of text block, resulting in smudging of text on a few folios. A few paper repairs, with some loss of text on the first folio. Insert between fol. 294-295.
• Origin: Copy completed on the last day of Rabīʻ I 1092 H [19 April 1681] by Muḥammad Ṭayyib ibn Muḥammad Naṣīr (fol. 419b).
• Incipit: زىب و آراىش آغاز و انجام و نعوت و صفات انبىاء عظام و اوصىاى کرام

Binding note

Full brown leather over pasted boards; pastedowns culled from other mss.

Language note

Persian.

Provenance

Note dated 1365 on fol. 1a; note dated 1334 on recto of back flyleaf. Owner's stamp on inner front cover.

References

Āghā Buzurg. Dharīʻah (1936), VI, 385

OCLC

760914117

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