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Subject(s)

• Muḥammad Prophet -632—Biography—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Alids—Biography—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Imams (Shiites)—Biography—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Prophets, Pre-Islamic—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Persian—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Summary note

Stories of the prophets and imams in 40 bāb.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from fol. 1b.
• On spine: Label reading "Majmaʻ [al-hu]dá" inscribed by a modern hand.
• Physical description: 25 lines per page; written in naskh in black on tan glazed, laid Arabic paper. Rubrication and catchwords; some marginal notes and sketches. Some staining and smudging; extensive paper repairs to first 20 folios and fol. 114, with some loss of text. Last folio repaired and somewhat crumpled, making the text in the inner margin difficult to read. Marginal paper repairs to other folios throughout ms.; a few pages have been damaged by insects.
• Origin: Copy completed 18 Rabīʻ I 1022 H [8 May 1613] by Ḥājjī ʻAbd Allāh in Bilāsijīn [Belasejin], one of the villages of Sarāb (fol. 166b).
• Incipit: خلاصۀ کلمات راوىان اخبار و انبىاء [...] مقدار و نقاوه [؟] منشات واقفات آثار حمد و ثناى خالقى است

Binding note

Full black leather over pasted boards; paper doublures.

Language note

Persian.

Provenance

Several owners' stamps throughout ms., mostly smudged. One on fol. 15a is dated 1032 H [1622 or 3]; a second on fol. iia is accompanied by an ownership statement by Ḥasan ibn al-marḥūm Ākhund Mullā Āqā Muḥammad and dated 4 Jumādá 1295 H [5 June 1878].

References

Āghā Buzurg. Dharīʻah (1936), XX, 47

Other title(s)

• Kitāb-i Majmaʻ al-hudá
• کتاب مجمع الهدى

OCLC

776898601

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