Details

Subject(s)

• Astrology, Arab—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Islamic magic—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Islamic philosophy—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Hadith (Shiites)—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Mathematics, Arab—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Shīʻah—Doctrines—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Persian—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• Commonplace books—Islamic countries—17th century [Browse]

Contains

• Ṭabarsī, al-Faḍl ibn al-Ḥasan, -1153. Iʻtiqādāt. [Browse]
• طبرسي، الفضل بن الحسن، -1153. اعتقادات. [Browse]

Summary note

Commonplace book consisting mainly of traditions and extracts from doctrinal and philosophical works, whose authors include Mullā Ṣadrā, Ibn Sīnā, Bahāʼ al-Dīn al-ʻĀmilī, Shaykh Mufīd, and Shahrastānī.

Notes

• Ms. composite codex.
• Title from fol. 2a.
• On front cover: Label reading "56" in Arabic script.
• Physical description: Varying lines per page; written in a variety of scripts in black on a variety of glazed, laid Arabic paper. Numerous paper repairs, with a few resulting in significant loss of text. Fol. 1 detached. Some staining, mainly marginal.

Binding note

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

Language note

Persian and Arabic.

Contents

• fol. 1b: [Anecdote]
• fol. 2b-5b: [Traditions]
• fol. 6a-6b: [Part of a poem]
• fol. 7a-13a: [Supplication]
• fol. 13a-14b: Nāmhā-yi Aṣḥāb al-Kahf
• fol. 15a: [Traditions]
• fol. 15b-18a: Iʻtiqādāt Shaykh Abū ʻAlī Faḍl ibn al-Ḥasan al-Ṭabarsī
• fol. 18b-47b: [Extracts on doctrine and philosophy]
• fol. 48a-60b: [Traditions]
• fol. 61a: Masāyil-i handasīyah
• fol. 61b-64a: [Traditions]
• fol. 64b: [Fawāʼid]
• fol. 65a-65b: Misāḥat-i dāyirah va kurah va ghayr-i īnhā
• fol. 66a-68a: [Extracts on magic and astrology]
• fol. 68a-68b: [Fawāʼid].

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Provenance

Smudged owner's seals on fol. 14a. Birth record dated 1086 H [1675 or 6] on fol. 68b.

OCLC

793740719

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