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Subject(s)

• Muḥammad Prophet -632—Family—Poetry [Browse]
• محمد، النبي، d. 632 [Browse]
• Devotional poetry, Arabic [Browse]
• Hadith [Browse]
• Islamic law—Interpretation and construction—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Islam—Doctrines—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Islam—Prayers and devotions [Browse]
• Islamic philosophy—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Prayer—Islam—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Persian poetry—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Sufism [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Persian—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Poetry [Browse]

Summary note

Collection of fragments culled from different manuscripts on a variety of topics.

Notes

• Ms. composite codex.
• On front cover: Label reading "276" in Arabic script.
• Physical description: Varying lines per page; written in naskh and shikastah on a variety of Arabic and European laid papers and machine-made paper. Persian poetry in two columns. Texts 1-2 written at different angles: diagonally, horizontally, and parallel to the spine. Text 5 has blue and gold border. Catchwords and rubrication. Fol. 15a-16b blank. Extensive staining on some texts, but writing still legible. Edges dog-earred.

Binding note

Full brown leather over pasted boards, with blind-stamped central mandorla and pendants and blind-tooled fillets. Paper doublures; the one on the back cover is marbled.

Language note

Persian and Arabic.

Contents

• 1. fol. 1a-6a: [Fragment from an unidentified Persian text].
• 2. fol. 7a-14b: [Hadiths and other extracts in Arabic].
• 3. fol. 17a-24b: [Short texts and fragments in Persian on Sufism].
• 4. fol. 25a-25a: [Incomplete Arabic poem on the Prophet's family].
• 5. fol. 29a-34b: [Fragment from a Persian commentary on hadiths].
• 6. fol. 35a-42b: [Fragment from an Arabic text on faith].
• 7. fol. 43a-48b: [Fragment from an Arabic text on philosophy]. Divided into faṣl.
• 8. fol. 49a-93b: [Fragment from an Arabic text on uṣūl al-fiqh]. Contains bāb 4 [part]-7 [part] and qāʻidah 49 [part]-89 [part].
• 9. fol. 94a-102b: [Fragment from an Arabic text on uṣūl al-fiqh]. Contains maqṣid 4 [part]-5 [part].
• 10. fol. 103a-106b: [Fragment from an Arabic text on uṣūl al-fiqh]. Contains qāʻidah 31-43 [part].
• 11. fol. 107a-112b: [Fragment from a Persian text concerning prayer].
• 12. fol. 113a-117b: [Fragment from a Persian poem on Yūsuf and Zulaykhā].
• 13. fol. 118a-145b: [Fragments from a Persian epic poem on Timur].
• 14. fol. 146a-147: [Fragment from a collection of Persian poems].
• 15. fol. 148a-149b: [Notes].
• 16. fol. 150a-159b: [Fragments from a Persian text on prayer].
• 17. fol. 160a-164b: [Fragment of a Persian translation and commentary on prayer].
• 18. fol. 165a-166b: [Fragment of a Persian text on faith].
• 19. fol. 167a-179b: [Notes].
• 20. fol. 180a-180b: [Arabic poem praising the Prophet's family].
• 21. fol. 181a-181b: [Prayers].
• 22. fol. 182a-186b: [Fragment from an unidentified Persian text].
• 23. fol. 187a-189b: [Fragment from an Arabic text on pious deeds].

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OCLC

795128104

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