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Subject(s)

• ʻAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib Caliph approximately 600-661—Hadith [Browse]
• علي بن ابي طالب، الخليفة، approximately 600-661 [Browse]
• Persian language—Rhyme [Browse]
• Prophets—Iran—Biography [Browse]
• Sufism [Browse]
• Islamic Empire—History—622-661 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Persian—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• Autographs (manuscripts)—Iran—Tehran—19th century [Browse]

Contains

• ʻAlī Akbar ibn Muḥammad, active 19th century. Fayz̤ʹnāmah. [Browse]
• على اکبر بن محمد، active 19th century. فىض‌نامه. [Browse]

Summary note

Collection of Persian texts on a variety of topics.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from fol. 4b.
• Physical description: 8-16 lines per page; written in shikastah in black on wove paper. Fol. 57-78 dyed blue and written in large naskh with vocalization. Most of text framed in blue; rubrication and catchwords. Fol. 4b-58b written by the same hand; other pages by different hands. Fol. 20b-21b, 54b, 56b-57a, 65b, 69a blank. Occasional staining and light smudging. In good condition.
• Origin: Texts 2, 4 are holographs, dated Ṭihrān, Muḥarram 1291 H [February-March 1874] (fol. 19a, 54a). Text 3 dated 1292 H [1875 or 6] (fol. 20a).
• Incipit (text 2): نسختىن کلام ستاىش حضرت متکلمى است که کلامش را چندان که در حوصله گف[ت]ارش گذارش گنجه
• Incipit (text 4): ستاىش بهىنه برون از پندار و نىاىش گزىنه فزون از گفتار
• Incipit (text 7): اولا آنکه اربعىن بر دو قسمت و هر قسمىرا [...] لازم خلوت عام و خلوت خاص

Binding note

Limp brown leather with blind-tooled fillets and simple central star.

Language note

Persian.

Contents

• 1. fol. 1a-4a: [Notes, poetry extracts, and a ḥadīth].
• 2. fol. 4b-19a: Risālah dar ʻilm-i qāfiyah / ʻAlī Akbar ibn Āqā Mīrzā Muḥammad. Treatise on rhyme in seven faṣl; holograph.
• 3. fol. 19b-20a: [Two examples of rhyme, with explanations].
• 4. fol. 22a-54a: Fayz̤ʹnāmah / ʻAlī Akbar. Consists of six stories. The first three are of Zoroaster, Mazdak, and Mani. The next two are of Sajjāḥ and Musaylimah, who claimed to be prophets during and/or shortly after the time of Muḥammad. The last story is of Umm Tamīm, whose husband was a supporter of Sajjāḥ. Holograph.
• 5. fol. 55a-56a: [Two reports concerning ʻAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib].
• 6. fol. 57b-59a: [Notes].
• 7. fol. 59b-65a: Dastūr al-ʻamal-i arbaʻīn / bi-farmāyish-i janāb-i Āqā Ghulām Riz̤āyī [...] Shāh. Treatise on undertaking the khalvat, in two qism; title from fol. 59b. On fol. 1a the title is given as Dastūr al-ʻamal-i riyāz̤at-i arbaʻīn az ... Haz̤rat Shaykh Ghulām Riz̤āyī al-maʻrūf bi-Ustād Shankar [?].
• 8. fol. 66a-66b: [Poem].
• 9. fol. 67a-68b: [Sayings from ʻAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib].
• 10. fol. 69b: [Notes].

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Other title(s)

• Dastūr al-ʻamal-i arbaʻīn.
• دستور العمل اربعىن.
• Dastūr al-ʻamal-i riyāz̤at-i arbaʻīn.
• دستور العمل رىاضت اربعىن.

OCLC

780700283

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