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Subject(s)

• Shīʻah—Doctrines [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Persian—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Summary note

Treatise on Shiʻite beliefs.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from fol. 1b.
• On fore edge: "Musammá bi-Ṭūr-i Sīná" in Arabic script.
• Physical description: 16 lines per page; written in naskh in black on glazed, laid European paper. Rubrication; catchwords beginning on fol. 104b. First folio missing. Some smudging, particularly on first few folios. In excellent condition.
• Origin: Copy completed by ʻAbd al-Karīm ibn Maʻṣūm al-Qazvīnī on 20 Dhū al-Ḥijjah 1243 H [3 July 1828] (fol. 261b). According to the copy listed in the Markaz-i Iḥyāʼ-ʼi Mīrās̲-i Islāmī, the original text was completed in Rajab 1243 H [January-February 1828]; that copy was completed by the same copyist on 10 Shaʻbān 1243 H.
• Incipit (as extant): رسول الله والعلامات الائمه و هداىت نجم بر ما زمره بنى نوع اين بود که در ىوم الغدىر فرمود من کنت مولاه فهذا على مولاه

Binding note

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

References

Fihrist-i nuskhahhā-yi khaṭṭī-i Markaz-i Iḥyāʼ-ʼi Mīrās̲-i Islāmī, VII, 77-78

OCLC

781967819

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