Muntahá al-amal rajāʾan min Allāh an yahdī bihi al-ṭālibīn ilá aḥsan al-ʻamal ... [etc.]. - Muḥammad ibn Jaʻfar ([between 15--? and 18--?], 1500)
Collection of texts and fragments on Shiite rituals for the dead, prayer, and uṣūl al-fiqh.
8. fol. 42a-92a: [Persian text on prayer]. Incomplete at beginning and end.
Ms. composite codex.
On front cover: Label reading "385" in Arabic script.
Physical description: Varying lines per page; written in a variety of scripts in black, mostly on glazed, laid European paper. First two leaves are blue. Text 8 on tan and yellow glazed, laid Arabic paper. Most leaves measure 151 x 88 mm; fol. 21-28 measure 151 x 108 mm. Rubrication and catchwords. Fol. 1b, 3a, 19a, 21b, 29b, 41a-41b blank. Marginal damp staining; heavy water damage to lower spine which has eaten away the paper, causing slight loss of text on a few pages. Fol. 30 torn and repaired, with loss of last line of text. Text 8 in poor condition, with some insect damage and an ink stain, both of which have caused some loss of text on the first and last few leaves.
Persian and Arabic.
Limp black leather; lower spine and part of lower cover missing due to water damage.
Keywords: Death -- Religious aspects -- Islam -- Early works to 1800.; Islamic law -- Interpretation and construction; Prayer -- Islam -- Early works to 1800.; Shīʻah -- Customs and practices -- Early works to 1800.; Manuscripts, Persian -- New Jersey -- Princeton; Manuscripts, Arabic -- New Jersey -- Princeton; Manuscripts, Persian -- 16th century; Manuscripts, Arabic -- 19th century