Details

Subject(s)

• Islamic ethics [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Persian—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Trans

• Zavvārī, ʻAlī ibn Ḥasan, active 16th century [Browse]
• زوارى، على بن حسن، active 16th century [Browse]

Summary note

Persian translation of al-Ṭabarsī's treatise on moral conduct in 12 bāb; translated by ʻAlī ibn al-Ḥasan al-Zavvārī and, according to Āghā Buzurg, entitled Makārim al-karāʼim. Contents described on fol. 6b-8a.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from fol. 1a by a later hand.
• On spine: Label reading "Fārsī Makārim al-akhlāq" in Arabic script.
• Ms. erroneously foliated beginning on front flyleaf. Record follows erroneous foliation.
• Physical description: 23 lines per page; written in nastaʻliq in black on glazed, laid European paper with large shield watermark. Rubrication and catchwords; Arabic quotations in vocalized naskh and overlined in red. Bābs noted in red in margins. Some foxing, damp staining, and smudging; a few paper repairs, mostly marginal, particularly to first few and last few leaves. Fol. 3 bound incorrectly; belongs after fol. 9.
• Origin: Copy completed 1 Ṣafar 1082 H. [9 June 1671] (fol. 178b).
• Incipit: حمد بىحد و شکر بىعد حضرت احدى را سزد که سىد بشر و ائمه اثنى عشر را بر گزىد بمکارم اخلاق و بمحاسن اشفاق براى رحمت عالميان و هدايت آدميان

Binding note

Full light brown leather with simple blind-tooled geometric design and blind-stamped fillets; paper doublures.

Language note

Persian.

Provenance

On fol. 1a, owner's stamp dated 1222 H [1807 or 8], and statement of ownership dated 1325 H [1907 or 8].

References

Āghā Buzurg. Dharīʻah (1936), XXII, 150

Other title(s)

مكارم الكرائم

Title as given by Āghā Buzurg

• Makārim al-karāʼim

OCLC

777393554

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