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Subject(s)

• Ḥusayn ibn ʻAlī -680 [Browse]
• Muslim martyrs [Browse]
• Imams (Shiites)—Biography [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Persian—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Summary note

First part of a text on the martyrdom of Ḥusayn, complete through the fifth majlis.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from fol. 2a.
• Physical description: 13 lines per page; written in indifferent nastaʻliq in black on unglazed, laid European paper. Rubrication and catchwords. Extensive damp staining in upper and outer margins, occasionally blurring top line of text. A few gatherings are detached.
• Origin: Copy completed by ʻAlī ibn Abū [sic] al-Qāsim in 1264 H [1847 or 8] (fol. 326b).
• Incipit: الحمد لله رب العالمىن ... اما بعد چنىن گوىد بنده خاطى و مذنب محتاج بمغفرت پروردگار غنى محمد صالح برغانى که چون بعد از فراىض اعظم اعمال مندوبه و اشرف قربات شرعية گرىستن و گرىاندن و محزون شدن و محزون ىافتن بر مصىبت سيد الشهداء و خامس آل عبا ابى عبد الله الحسىن

Binding note

Full brown leather over pasted boards, with blind-stamped central mandorla, pendants, and fillets; paper doublures.

Language note

Persian.

References

Āghā Buzurg. Dharīʻah (1936), XX, 224-225

Other title(s)

• Majālis-i Baraghānī
• مجالس برغانى

OCLC

767738773

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